United States Eleventh Circuit

In an action alleging collusion to fix cigarette prices, summary judgment in favor of the defendant manufacturers is affirmed where the pricing behavior evidenced nothing more than "conscious parallelism."

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/22/2003
• Published 09/22/2003

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before MARCUS and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dianne M. Nast,Roda & Nast, P.C., Lancaster, PA, Martin D. Chitwood, Craig Gordon Harley, William Thomas Lacy, Jr., Chitwood & Harley, Atlanta, GA, Paul T. Gallagher, Michael D. Hausfeld, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, Stanley M. Chesley, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Cincinnati, OH, Jon Peter Ferguson, Jeffrey Parker Bean, Chandler, Franklin & O'Bryan, Bainbridge Island, WA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kenneth L. Chernof, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe LLP, Gaithersburg, MD, William V. O'Reilly, Thomas F. Cullen, Jr., Edwin Louis Fountain, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Peter D. Isakoff, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Amy J. Mauser, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Washington, DC, Stephen R. Patton, Andrew R. McGaan, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, Matthew J. Calvert, Ashley Cummings, Hunton & Williams, Joseph B. Haynes, King & Spalding, Edward B. Krugman, Bondurant, Mixson & Elmoe, Atlanta, GA, Michael T. Williams, Darryl L. Snider, Jerry L. Marks, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe LLP, Los Angeles, CA, David Boies, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Armonk, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.