United States Tenth Circuit

In a claim alleging monopolization and attempted monopolization through predatory pricing in violation of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. section 2, summary judgment for defendant airline is affirmed where the government failed to establish pricing below an appropriate measure of cost.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/03/2003
• Published 07/03/2003

Judges

• LUCERO, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, PORFILIO, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John P. Fonte, Attorney (R. Hewitt Pate, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Donna Kooperstein, Renata B. Hesse, Robert D. Young, J. Richard Doidge, Nina B. Hale, Rebekah J. French, Karl D. Knutsen, Jennifer L. Cihon, Max R. Huffman, Mark J. Niefer, Catherine G. O'Sullivan, Robert B. Nicholson, David Seidman, Roger W. Fones, Craig W. Conrath, Attorneys, with him on the briefs), United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Washington, DC, for the Plaintiff-Appellant., Robert Rowen and Rebecca Brock of Vanguard Airlines, Inc., Kansas City, MO, and Sarah A. Brown of Parkinson, Foth, Orrick & Brown, L.L.P., Lenexa, KS, filed a brief for the Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert E. Cooper of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, (Mark E. Weber and Rodney J. Stone of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Los Angeles, CA;  Helene D. Jaffe and Debra J. Pearlstein of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, New York, NY;  Stephen E. Robison of Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, L.L.C., Wichita, KS;  William R. Sampson of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Overland Park, KS, with him on the brief) for the Defendants-Appellees.