United States Ninth Circuit

In a case alleging that an agreement between defendants and a third party violated the Sherman Act, the district court properly dismissed the action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction where the agreement does not have a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on United States commerce.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/05/2003
• Decided 08/11/2004
• Published 08/11/2004

Judges

• Before ALDISERT,TALLMAN, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven J. Mintz, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas F. Connell and Jeffrey D. Ayer, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees LSL Biotechnologies, Inc. and LSL Plantscience LLC., Sabina Bhalla, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.