United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit brought under the Sherman and Clayton Acts for antitrust violations, alleging defendants conspired with each other to set the fees charged to merchants, such as plaintiffs, for payment of credit card sales, dismissal of the action is affirmed where plaintiffs' First Amended Complaint failed to plead evidentiary facts sufficient to establish a conspiracy.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/11/2007
• Decided 03/07/2008
• Published 03/07/2008

Judges

• BEA, Circuit Judge:, Before:  HAWKINS, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard J. Archer, Archer & Hanson, Occidental, California and James A. Kopcke, Golden Kopcke, San Francisco, CA, for the appellants., Marie L. Fiala, Heller Ehrman, San Francisco, CA;  Robert Vizas, Arnold & Porter, LLP, San Francisco, CA;  Jay N. Fastow, Debra J. Pearlstein, Gianluca Morello, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, New York, NY;  Keila D. Ravelo, Wesley R. Powell, Hunton & Williams, New York, NY;  Eileen Ridley, Foley & Lardner, LLP, San Francisco, CA;  Maurice J. McSweeney, Michael Luedner, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, WI;  Daniel M. Wall, Joshua N. Holian, Latham & Watkins, San Francisco, CA;  and Sonya D. Winner, Tara M. Steeley, Covington & Burling, San Francisco, CA.