Legal Opinion
Premier Electrical Construction Co. v. National Electrical Contractors Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 2, 1987No. Nos. 86-1935, 86-2035 and 86-2036PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
This antitrust case presents questions concerning issue preclusion, horizontal price fixing with a union’s assistance, and the Noerr-Pennington doctrine. The questions arise from an agreement in 1976 between the National Electrical Contractors Association, Inc. (the Association), which comprises firms doing 50-60% of the nation’s electrical contracting work, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO (the Union), which represents employees of these and many other contractors. The agreement established the National Electrical Industry Fund (the…
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