Legal Opinion
General Leaseways, Inc. v. National Truck Leasing Association, D/B/A National Truck Leasing System
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 31, 1984No. 83-3173PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendants in this antitrust suit appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1) from the grant of a preliminary injunction to the plaintiff, General Leaseways, a company engaged in the business of leasing trucks. The principal (and to simplify this opinion we shall assume the only) defendant is an association of such firms, the National Truck Leasing Association, which decided to suspend General Leaseways indefinitely — the practical equivalent of expelling it.
The roughly 130 members of the Association lease trucks to businesses on a “full service” basis. This means that the…
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