Legal Opinion
Thomsen v. Western Electric Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 6, 1982No. 81-4190PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs appeal from a summary judgment in favor of Western Electric, Pacific Telephone, and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. 512 F.Supp. 128.
The central issues are: (1) whether the defendants were entitled to judgment as a matter of law on plaintiffs’ claims of violations of § 1 of the Sherman Act; and (2) whether the plaintiffs had standing to sue Western for alleged violations of § 2 of the Sherman Act. Six employees filed a private antitrust action in district court claiming that the defendants contracted, combined, and conspired to restrain interstate trade…
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