United States DC Circuit

Plaintiffs-foreign corporations' suit, which alleges price fixing in violation of the Sherman Act, is dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/20/2005
• Decided 06/28/2005
• Published 06/28/2005

Judges

• KAREN LECRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge., Before:  EDWARDS, HENDERSON and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas C. Goldstein argued the cause for the appellants.  Amy Howe, Michael D. Hausfeld, Paul T. Gallagher and Brian A. Ratner were on brief.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen M. Shapiro argued the cause for the appellees.  Bruce L. Montgomery, Arthur F. Golden, Stephen Fishbein, John M. Majoras, Daniel H. Bromberg, Lawrence Byrne, D. Stuart Meiklejohn, Stacey R. Friedman, Tyrone C. Fahner, Stephen M. Shapiro, Andrew S. Marovitz, Jeffrey W. Sarles, Michael L. Denger, Miguel A. Estrada, Laurence T. Sorkin, Roy L. Regozin, Paul P. Eyre, Ernest E. Vargo, Donald I. Baker, W. Todd Miller, Alice G. Glass, Peter E. Halle, Kevin R. Sullivan, Peter M. Todaro, Jeffrey S. Cashdan, Thomas M. Mueller, Michael O. Ware, James R. Weiss, Aileen Meyer, Sutton Keany, Bryan Dunlap, Martin Frederic Evans, Gary W. Kubek, Karen N. Walker, Moses Silverman and Mark Riera were on brief., Steven J. Mintz, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, argued the cause for amici curiae United States of America and Federal Trade Commission in support of the appellees.  Robert H. Pate, III, Assistant Attorney General, Robert B. Nicholson, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, and John D. Graubert, Acting General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission, were on brief.  Adam D. Hirsh, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, entered an appearance., Homer E. Moyer, Jr. and Alan I. Horowitz were on brief for amicus curiae Government of Canada in support of the appellees., Ernest Gellhorn was on brief for amici curiae Federal Republic of Germany et al. in support of the appellees., Mark S. Popofsky, Michael D. Blechman, Saul P. Morgenstern and Peter A. Barile, III were on brief for amicus curiae United States Council for International Business in support of the appellee.