Shea v. First Federal Savings & Loan Assn. of New Haven

This appeal arises from a private antitrust action brought by the plaintiff, a member of the Connecticut bar, against the defendant, a federally chartered, state licensed savings and loan association. The complaint alleged: (1) that the defendant, in concert with a limited number of attorneys, including four of its directors, maintained and wrongfully employed an exclusionary listing of attorneys; (2) that the defendant’s conduct injured the professional practice of the plaintiff: and other attorneys by steering clients toward attorneys favored with the defendant’s stamp of approval and thus…