Legal Opinion
David A. Yentsch, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Texaco, Inc., Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 12, 1980No. 698, 772, Dockets 79-7735, 79-7746PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Circuit Judge:
This action, an anachronism in today’s OPEC-pricing world, was brought against Texaco, Inc. by a former Connecticut service station dealer David Yentsch. Following a six-day trial in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Judge Thomas F. Murphy submitted three issues to the jury: (1) whether Texaco coerced its Connecticut dealers, including Yentsch, to participate in an illegal maximum resale price maintenance scheme, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1; (2) whether Texaco broke its contract with Yentsch by…
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