United States Eighth Circuit

In an antitrust action alleging a conspiracy to monopolize the market for cardiology services for privately insured patients, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where the complaint erroneously defined the product market by how consumers paid for cardiology services. In addition, a grant of plaintiff's motion to tax costs is affirmed where the district court did not err in declining to tax discovery related copying expenses.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/29/2009
• Published 12/29/2009

Judges

• MELLOY, Circuit Judge., Before MELLOY, BEAM, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jess Askew, III, argued, Little Rock, AR (John C. Everett, Fayetteville, AR, Peter G. Kumpe, Jess Askew, III, Janet Lynn Pulliam, Benjamin D. Brenner, Little Rock, AR, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John J. Miles, argued, Washington, DC (Steven Shults, Chet A. Roberts, Debra Brown, Gordon S. Rather, Jr., Troy Anthony Price, Judy Simmons Henry, Michelle M. Kaemmerling, John P. Perkins, III, Little Rock, AR, Steven M. Shapiro, Chicago, IL, Robert E. Bloch, Christi J. Braun, William E. Berlin, Mitchell D. Raup, Washington, DC, on the brief), for appellees.