United States Eighth Circuit

In action by affiliate which claimed defendant conspired with a satellite t.v. provider to illegally set the price of its subscriptions sold by the affiliates, affiliate did not engage in independent commercial transactions with the subscribers and cannot establish the defendants' liability for resale price maintenance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/01/2002
• Published 02/01/2002

Judges

• BYE, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN and BYE, Circuit Judges, and BOGUE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• E. T. Sullivan, argued, Charlottesville, VA (Norman Daniel Frank, II, Mission, TX, on the brief), for appellant., David Marx, Jr., argued, Chicago, IL (Sandra Muhlenbeck, Chicago, IL, on the brief), for Primestar/TCI.


• For Appellees:
  
• David R. McAtee, II, argued, Dallas, TX (Barry F. McNeil, Sharon N. Freytag, Dallas, TX, on the brief), for appellee.