North Mississippi Communications, Inc. v. Douglas W. Jones

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A newspaper and two of its employees fired a broadside of antitrust, civil rights, and pendent state tort claims against a bank, a competing newspaper, and a County Board of Supervisors. After the plaintiffs had rested their case in the bench trial, the district court dismissed all of their claims. We hold that the record supports the trial court’s judgment dismissing the antitrust charges, but that the factual findings on the civil rights claim are insufficient for us to determine the basis for the court’s dismissal. We, therefore, vacate the judgment in part,…