United States First Circuit

Dismissal of claims alleging a violation Puerto Rican antitrust statute, 10 P.R. Laws Ann. section 264, for conspiring to destroy competition for chemical protective clothing in Puerto Rico is affirmed where section 264 only applies as an anti-dumping statute, forbidding the sale of goods at lower prices, not at higher prices.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/20/2003
• Published 10/20/2003

Judges

• Before TORRUELLA, SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marc Lamer, with whom Kostos & Lamer, PC, Eugene F. Hestres and Bird, Bird and Hestres were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy K. Beeken, with whom Debevoise & Plimpton, Daniel M. Abuhoff, Correa, Collazo, Herrero, Jiménez & Fortũno and Pedro Jiménez were on brief, for appellee.