United States Ninth Circuit

Federal antitrust claims are actionable against the U.S. Postal Service, because Congress has withdrawn the cloak of sovereign immunity from it, and given it the status of a private corporation by launching it into the commercial world.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/13/2002
• Decided 08/23/2002
• Published 08/23/2002

Judges

• DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge., Before: LAY,THOMPSON, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George P. Eshoo, Redwood City, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia J. Kenny, Assistant United States Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee.