United States Fifth Circuit

Even though one alleged conspirator lacks a direct interest in precluding competition, if it is enticed or coerced into knowingly curtailing competition by another conspirator who has an anticompetitive motive, there may be sufficient evidence of a combination or conspiracy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2001
• Published 05/31/2001

Judges

• JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge:, Before POLITZ, GIBSON and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Theodore Carl Anderson (argued), W.D. Masterson, Kilgore & Kilgore, Paul Rayford Smith (argued), Scott, Bowman & Stella, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen Stingley Goodman, IV (argued), Goodman, Odom, Lacy, Floyd & Midlgey, Fort Worth, TX, Peter Edward Moll, Jerrold Joseph Ganzfried, Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee.