United States Sixth Circuit

In an antitrust action involving allegations of anticompetitive behavior in the market for burial monuments in the state of Michigan, dismissal of the charges is affirmed and denial of sanctions against the plaintiff vacated and remanded for further proceedings where: 1) plaintiff's definition of the geographic market as each individual cemetery lot was too narrow as a matter of law; and 2) the district court failed to provide an adequate reason for the denial of sanctions against plaintiffs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/01/2008
• Published 05/01/2008

Judges

• Before:  MOORE, GILMAN, and SUTTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Barbara H. Kramer, Kramer & Kramer, Rydal, Pennsylvania, for Plaintiffs.  Frederick R. Juckniess, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Jay W. Tower, Bingham Farms, Michigan, Jeffrey C. Gerish, Plunkett & Cooney, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Anthony F. Caffrey III, Cardelli, Lanfear & Buikema, Grand Rapids, Michigan, for Defendants.   ON BRIEF:  Barbara H. Kramer, Mitchell A. Kramer, Kramer & kramer, Rydal, Pennsylvania, David A. Nacht, David Blanchard, Nacht & Associates, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Plaintiffs.  Frederick R. Juckniess, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Jay W. Tower, Bingham Farms, Michigan, Jeffrey C. Gerish, Plunkett & Cooney, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, L. David Lawson, Winegarden, Haley, Lindholm & Robertson, Grand Blanc, Michigan, Robert D. Goldstein, Garan Lucow Miller, Grand Blanc, Michigan, Timothy J. Jordan, Garan Lucow Miller, Detroit, Michigan, for Defendants.