Thomas M. Godfrey v. Pulitzer Publishing Co.

STAHL, Circuit Judge..Appellants Thomas M. Godfrey, et al., brought an action against Pulitzer Publishing Co. (“Pulitzer”) pursuant to the Robinson-Patman Act § 2(a), 15 U.S.C. § 13(a) (1994), claiming that appellee had engaged in anticompetitive sales of its newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (“the Post-Dispatch”). The district court 2 granted summary judgment in favor of Pulitzer and the appellants brought this appeal. We affirm.

I. Background

Appellants are branch dealers, or “branchmen,” who purchase copies of the Post-Dispatch from Pulitzer at a discount and resell the newspapers to…