Legal Opinion
Woolen v. Surtran Taxicabs, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 30, 1982No. 81-1063PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:
This case presents us with both unique facts and issues within the context of an antitrust class action challenging the Dallas/Fort Worth airport’s restriction of solicitation of taxicab passengers to limited holders of permits. The controversy surrounding the antitrust claim which forms the merits of this case pales in comparison to this donnybrook between two factions of plaintiffs, the Woolen/Campisi (Campisi) group and the Whorton group. The loser in the first round, the Whorton plaintiffs, sought exclusion from the class suit filed by the Campisi plaintiffs,…
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