Legal Opinion
Hammes v. AAMCO Transmissions, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 24, 1994No. 93-3884PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The plaintiffs appeal from a judgment that dismissed their antitrust suit on the surprising ground that the complaint had failed adequately to allege that the defendants’ violations had affected interstate commerce. The defendants defend the judgment on other grounds as well, so we have a number of issues to resolve; but the most important is the issue of commerce, and it is entangled with a procedural issue: how detailed federal pleadings must be.
The complaint alleges the following facts. By reciting them we do not of course vouch for their truth, but they are all we have…
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