United States v. Clovis Retail Liquor Dealers Trade Association

LEWIS, Chief Judge.

Defendants appeal the judgment and order of the district court for the District of New Mexico entered upon their pleas of nolo contendere to an indictment charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act and from their sentences pursuant to such violations.

Defendants contend the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction because their acts were not in interstate commerce, the indictment did not sufficiently allege the alternate jurisdictional basis that defendants’ activities “affected” interstate commerce and, even were the indictment sufficient, the defendants’ activities…