United States Sixth Circuit

A Tennessee state statute, which prohibits optical companies from leasing space to optometrists to perform eye exams in their retail eyewear stores, is constitutional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/14/2005
• Published 04/14/2005

Judges

• BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge., Before:  MARTIN and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges;  JORDAN, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Barry Friedman, New York University Law School, New York, New York, for Appellants. Eugene N. Bulso, Jr., Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:Barry Friedman, New York University Law School, New York, New York, Julie A. Maloney, Stacey L. Jarrell, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Daniel H. Bromberg, Jones Day, Washington, D.C., Alan N. Greenspan, Jackson Walker, L.L.P., Dallas, Texas, for Appellants. Eugene N. Bulso, Jr., Melissa R. Ballengee, Barbara Hawley Smith, Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees. Roger A. Fairfax, Alissa Starzak, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae.