Western Meat Co., Inc. v. IBP, Inc.

OPINION

ROBERT L. CARTER, District Judge.

In this diversity action, Western Meat Company, Inc. (“Western Meat”), a New York wholesale meat merchant, alleges that its principal supplier and one of its competitors maliciously and unlawfully conspired to drive it out of business. On the pleadings, affidavits, and discovery materials presented to the court, the defendants move for summary judgment and an order dismissing the complaint pursuant to Rule 56, F.R.Civ.P.

Background

Once a profitable meat wholesaler at the Hunt’s Point Co-operative in New York, Western Meat went out of business in March,…