Legal Opinion
Sheridan v. Marathon Petroleum Co. LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 23, 2008No. 07-3543PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs, a Marathon dealer in Indiana and a company owned by him to whom he assigned his dealership contract, filed suit against Marathon under section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, charging it with tying the processing of credit card sales to the Marathon franchise and also with conspiring with banks to fix the price of the processing service. The tying arrangement is challenged under section 1 of the Sherman Act rather than section 3 of the Clayton Act because the things alleged to be tied — the franchise and the processing service — are services rather…
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