Breaux Bros. Farms, Inc. v. Teche Sugar Co., Inc.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Teche Sugar Company, Inc., offered to lease to Breaux Brothers Farms, Inc., Teche Planting, Inc., and Francis Accardo land for farming sugar cane. Teche Sugar conditioned its offer on its choice of a processing mill. All three sugar farmers sued .in federal district court alleging that the lease tied land to milling in violation of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. The district court ruled in favor of the farmers and awarded damages. We are not persuaded that any tie of land to milling was supported by market power in the land or, relatedly, that any tie…