Willard M. Noble and Etta M. Noble v. McClatchy Newspapers, a Corporation, Willard M. Noble and Etta M. Noble v. McClatchy Newspapers, a Corporation

OPINION

Before BROWNING and TRASK, Circuit Judges, and GRAY,* District Judge. BROWNING, Circuit Judge:

Willard Noble and his wife, Etta, were distributors of the Sacramento Bee newspaper. Their distributorship was cancelled. They brought this private antitrust action against McClatchy Newspapers, publisher of the Bee, and seven individuals.1

Three claims are at issue on these appeals: First, that defendants violated section 1 of the Sherman Act to plaintiffs’ injury by terminating plaintiffs’ distributorship; second, assuming the lawfulness of the termination of plaintiffs’ distributorship that…