United States Sixth Circuit

City is immune from antitrust liability in a suit over the bidding process for provision of pay telephone service to city facilities, because anticompetitive effects are the foreseeable result of the city's authority to bid out public contracts; dismissal of antitrust claim against private company was proper where the city never lost control over decisions in the bidding process; civil rights claim was properly dismissed where plaintiffs did not have a legitimate claim of entitlement to the city contract.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/23/2002
• Published 04/23/2002

Judges

• Before NELSON and MOORE, Circuit Judges;  KATZ, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gordon S. Gold (argued and briefed), Tova Shaban (briefed), Seyburn, Kahn, Ginn, Bess & Serlin, Southfield, MI, Alan C. Harnisch (briefed), Harnish & Gadd, Bingham Farms, MI, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Morley Witus (argued and briefed), James D. VandeWyngearde, Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker, Detroit, MI, Kenneth J. McIntyre (argued and briefed), Scott T. Seabolt (briefed), Dickinson Wright, Detroit, MI, James W. McGinnis (argued and briefed), Detroit, MI, for Appellees.