Legal Opinion
Erie County v. Morton Salt, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 18, 2012No. 11-4153PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is a purported class action brought by Erie County, Ohio on behalf of itself and other counties in northern Ohio against Morton Salt, Inc. and Cargill, Inc. Erie County claims that Morton and Car-gill have conspired to fix the price of rock salt in northern Ohio by geographically dividing the market and excluding competition, in violation of Ohio’s Valentine Act (Ohio Revised Code §§ 1331.01-1331.15), a state analogue to the federal antitrust statutes, including the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 1-7). The district court granted the defendants’ motion…
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