United States Fifth Circuit

Even though plaintiff alleges that the antitrust conspiracy raised prices in the United States, it fails to assert jurisdiction under the antitrust laws because the plaintiff's injury did not arise from that domestic anticompetitive effect.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2001
• Published 02/05/2001

Judges

• E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Arthur R. Miller (argued), Cambridge, MA, Jacob Dweck, Rebecca L. Hirsch, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Washington, DC, James R. McGibbon, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, GA, Craig Barkell Glidden, Patricia Hall Webb, Jeffrey Alan Kaplan, McFall, Glidden, Sherwood & Breitbeil, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Jonathan D. Schiller, William A. Isaacson, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, Washington, DC, for Heeremac Vof, Heerma Marine Contractors, Heerema Offshore Services U.S., Inc., Heerema Offshore Constr. Group, Inc., Meek and Heerema., William J. Linklater, Michael A. Pollard, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, IL, Jacks C. Nickens, Clements, O'Neill, Pierce, Nickens & Wilson, Houston, TX, for Heerma Marine Contractors, Heerema Offshore Services U.S. Inc., Heerema Offshore Construction Group Inc., Jan Meek and Pieter Heerema., Charles Alan Gilman (argued), Patricia Farren, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York City, Innes A. Mackillop, White, Mackillop & Boham, Houston, TX, for McDermott Intern., Inc., McDermott, Inc., J. RayMcDermott SA, J. Ray McDermott Inc., J. Ray McDermott Gulf Contractors Inc., McDermott Engineers & Constructors (USA) Inc., McDermott Engineering Houston LLC and McDermott-ETPM Inc., Robin C. Gibbs, Kathy Dawn Patrick (argued), John Albert Basinger, Gibbs and Bruns, Houston, TX, for Saipem SPA, Saipem Intern. BV, Saipem UK Ltd. and Saipem (Portugal)-Comercio Maritimo, Sociedade Unipessoal, SA.