Legal Opinion
Olympia Equipment Leasing Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 18, 1986No. 85-3150PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs, affiliated companies (now defunct) and their assignee — we shall refer to the plaintiffs collectively as “Olympia”— brought this suit in 1977 against Western Union Telegraph Company, seeking damages for monopolization and attempted monopolization under section 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2, and for breach of contract under state law. The complaint also contained a count under section 1 of the Sherman Act, charging a conspiracy between the defendant and its parent corporation, but this count was dropped before trial, presumably because of the Supreme…
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