People v. WOODLAND OIL CO., INC.

Leave having been granted, the people appeal an order of the Grand Traverse Circuit Court which affirmed an order of dismissal in the 86th District Court. Delayed appeal was granted for a cross-appeal filed by defendant Woodland Oil Company, which seeks review of earlier interlocutory rulings, not the order of the circuit court.

Defendants are distributors and retailers of gasoline and oil products in the Traverse City and Northern Lower Peninsula markets. The Attorney General charged defendants with conspiracy to fix the retail price of motor vehicle fuel, MCL 750.558; MSA 28.826, alleging…