Legal Opinion
Wells Real Estate, Inc. v. Greater Lowell Board of Realtors
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 23, 1988No. 87-1238PublishedCited by 146 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Circuit Judge.
This is the anticlimactic end of a prolonged antitrust litigation involving two consolidated suits over the course of more than fifteen years. Although a number of interesting issues were argued on appeal, most of them fall by reason of the jury’s finding that plaintiff had failed to establish that defendants’ activities had a substantial effect on interstate commerce, a necessary element for liability under the Sherman Act. We affirm the judgments.
I. FACTS
The plaintiff, Wells Real Estate, Inc. (“Wells”), was a real estate brokerage located in Billerica, Massachusetts.…
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