Legal Opinion
Opdyke Investment Company v. City of Detroit
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 25, 1989No. 86-1843PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
Prior to 1978 it was widely believed in keeping with the “state action” exemption from antitrust liability announced in Parker v. Brown, 317 U.S. 341, 63 S.Ct. 307, 87 L.Ed. 315 (1943), that the federal antitrust laws were not intended to apply to municipalities. In City of Lafayette v. Louisiana Power & Light Co., 435 U.S. 389, 98 S.Ct. 1123, 55 L.Ed.2d 364 (1978), however, the Supreme Court held that the state action doctrine does not automatically exempt cities from the operation of the antitrust laws. The Court also held that a municipal body is a “person”…
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