United States Fourth Circuit

Airport security checkpoint bottleneck which requires passengers for all airlines to go through same checkpoint and thus use the same baggage template for oversized luggage will defeat a summary judgment that the use of a uniform template for all airlines is anti-competitive.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/15/2002
• Published 01/15/2002

Judges

• Before DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Richard Joseph Favretto, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, DC, for Appellants.  Alden Lewis Atkins, Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Mark W. Ryan, Lily Fu Swenson, Robert L. Bronston, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, DC;  Stephen M. Shapiro, Jeffrey W. Sarles, Kermit Roosevelt, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, for Appellants.  Paul L. Yde, Joseph E. Hunsader, Mary N. Lehner, Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Appellees.  Edward J. Gilmartin, Associate General, Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.