Gulf Coast Hotel-Motel Ass'n v. Mississippi Gulf Coast Golf Course Ass'n

JENNIFER WALKER ELROD, Circuit Judge:

This is an antitrust case involving a dispute between competing programs to sell vouchers for rounds of golf at golf courses along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. The district court granted defendants-appellees motion to dismiss, deciding, in pertinent part, that the plaintiff-appellant had failed to allege the interstate commerce element of a valid claim under the Sherman Act. We now REVERSE and REMAND for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

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The plaintiff-appellant, the Gulf Coast Hotel-Motel Association and its successor Mississippi Hotel &…