Legal Opinion
John Lenore & Company, Model Distributing Company, John P. Lenore and Robert E. Livingston v. Olympia Brewing Company
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 17, 1977No. 76-1640PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
This is an interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) in a lawsuit arising out of the acquisition of certain assets of the Theodore Hamm Company by Olympia Brewing Company and the subsequent termination by Olympia of the former wholesale distributors of Hamm’s brand beer.
ISSUE
Does a former beer distributor have standing under Sections 4 and 7 of the Clayton Act [15 U.S.C. §§ 15 and 18] to sue the manufacturer-supplier who has terminated the distributorship in favor of its own distributorship network?
The district court below held that plaintiff beer…
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