United States Sixth Circuit

Once it is decided that a restraint of trade is subject to per se analysis, claimed lack of any actual anticompetitive effects or presence of procompetitive effects is irrelevant. A horizontal market allocation agreement constituted a restraint of trade that is illegal per se under section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/13/2003
• Published 06/13/2003

Judges

• Before:  SILER and CLAY, Circuit Judges;  OBERDORFER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Louis M. Solomon (argued and briefed), Solomon, Zauderer, Ellenhorn, Frischer & Sharp, New York City, Kathleen McCree Lewis (briefed), Dykema Gossett, Detroit, MI, James R. Eiszner (briefed), Joseph M. Rebein (briefed), Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, Craig L. John, Dykema Gossett, Bloomfield Hills, MI, David E. Everson (argued), Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, Kansas City, MO, Norman C. Ankers, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Bingham Farms, MI, for Appellants., Marjorie E. Powell (briefed), Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, Karen N. Walker (briefed), Edwin J. U (briefed), Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, Paul E. Slater (briefed), Sperling, Slater & Spitz, Chicago, IL, Paul F. Novak, Asst. Atty. General (briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Natural Resources Division, Lansing, MI, Jay Himes (briefed), Attorney General, State of New York, Kathleen L. Harris (briefed), New York, NY, Michael R. Schuster (briefed), Sarah L. Lock (briefed), American Association of Retired Persons, Washington, DC, Donald Louis Bell II (briefed), Alexandria, VA, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard W. Cohen (argued and briefed), Stephen Lowey (briefed), Peter D. St Phillip, Jr. (briefed), Lowey, Dannenberg, Bemporad & Selinger, White Plains, NY, Bruce E. Gerstein (briefed), Barry S. Taus (briefed), Garwin, Bronzaft, Gerstein & Fisher, New York City, Elwood S. Simon, Lance C. Young, Elwood S. Simon & Associates, Birmingham, MI, Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr. (briefed), Jennifer S. Abrams (briefed), Berman, DeValerio, Pease & Tabacco, San Francisco, CA, Patrick E. Cafferty (briefed), Miller Faucher, Chertow Cafferty & Wexler, Ann Arbor, MI, Richard B. Drubel (argued and briefed), Boies, Schiller & Flexner, Hanover, NH, Scott E. Perwin (briefed), Kenny, Nachwalter, Seymour, Arnold, Critchlow & Spector, Miami, FL, Douglas H. Patton (briefed), Dewsnup, King & Olsen, Salt Lake City, UT, Steve D. Shadowen (argued and briefed), Michael J. colleran (briefed), Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Harrisburg, PA, Neill W. Clark, Eric L. Cramer (briefed), Daniel Berger (briefed), Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, PA, Angela K. Green (briefed), William W. Sellers (briefed), Niewald, Waldeck & Brown, Kansas City MO, for Appellees.