United States Ninth Circuit

Under section 1 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 15 USC 1, local sponsors of national golf association's events that agreed to association's rules and regulations did not engage in restraint of trade where they had no say in making the association's rules in regulations.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/11/2001
• Decided 08/02/2001
• Published 08/02/2001

Judges

• DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, CHIEF JUDGE, LAY, and DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul Smith, Dallas, Texas, for plaintiff-appellant Toscano., J. Thomas Rosch, San Francisco, California, for Title Sponser General Motors.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew D. Hurwitz, Phoenix, Arizona, for defendants-appellees Local Sponsors.