Blackburn v. Sweeney

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ALLEN SHARP, Chief Judge.

On or about July 15, 1993, the plaintiffs, Thomas Blackburn and Raymond T. Green, filed this complaint invoking this court’s federal question jurisdiction under Title 15 U.S.C. § 1, commonly known as the Sherman Antitrust Act. The plaintiffs are lawyers, as are the defendants, Charles Sweeney Jr. and Daniel H. Pfeifer, and once upon a time, they were all in the same law firm with offices in South Bend, Indiana, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and elsewhere, which engaged extensively in television advertising focused principally on the solicitation of personal…