James R. Snyder Co. v. Associated General Contractors of America, Detroit Chapter, Inc.

ENGEL, Circuit Judge.

Among numerous issues raised in these cross-appeals is a significant question concerning the application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, as they affect admission of coconspirators' out-of-court statements, and the extent to which our circuit’s construction of these rules in criminal prosecutions applies also to civil litigation. Equally important, these appeals require us to consider the difficult issue of the sufficiency of the evidence of an alleged illegal antitrust conspiracy, where that evidence consisted almost entirely of actions which are permitted under the…