Legal Opinion
Lucas Automotive Engineering, Inc. v. Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 31, 1998No. 95-56706PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN,** Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether a distributor and downstream purchaser of vintage automobile tires has standing to bring an antitrust action under the Clayton Act against a competitor and supplier for damages and divestiture.
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Coker Tire Company, Inc. (“Coker Tire”) and Lucas Automotive Engineering, Inc. (“Lucas Automotive”) sell vintage automobile tires to customers worldwide. Vintage tires are different from tires used on modern automobiles in terms of their size, dimensions, structure, design and manufacturing. They are replicas of the tires which originally were sold on…
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