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IN RE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & EQUIP. ANTITRUST LITIGATION

No. 12-56674.

798 F.3d 1186 (2015)

In re MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIPMENT ANTITRUST LITIGATION. Joshua Ramsey; David Giambusso; Dwayne Wiggins; Jason Paradise; Kate Macwilliamson; Niranjan Parikh; Paula Jennings; Ryan J. Bigg; Mark O'leary; Cynthia Sepulveda; Russell D. Melton; Jerry Jost; Kevin Gagnepain; Josh Pearson; John Pearson; Mary Pearson; Colby Giles; David Keel; William S. Poff; Allen Hale; Daniel T. Smith; Gerald Logsdon; Augustin Cervantes; Benn Feltheimer; Bryan Roach; Brandon Armstrong; Richard Tabas; Allen Hale; Kenneth Manyin; Russell D. Melton; Jon Bandish; Mark O'leary; Alex Teller; Scott Cook; Joshua Seiler; Johan Edward Rigor; Walter Witherspoon; Robert Lesko; Suzanne Ondre; Lisa Pritchett, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. National Association Of Music Merchants, Inc.; Guitar Center, Inc.; Guitar Center Stores, Inc.; Fender Musical Instruments Corp.; Yamaha Corporation of America; Gibson Guitar Corporation; Hoshino, U.S.A., Inc.; Kaman Music Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 25, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel C. Girard , Elizabeth C. Pritzker , Amanda Steiner , Scott M. Grzenczyk (argued), Girard Gibbs LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Margaret M. Zwisler (argued), J. Scott Ballenger , Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, D.C.; Christopher S. Yates , Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellee Guitar Center, Inc.

Daniel A. Sasse , Chahira Solh , Crowell & Moring LLP, Irvine, CA, for Defendant-Appellee Yamaha Corporation of America.

Paul C. Cuomo , Stephen Weissman , Baker Botts LLP, Washington, D.C.; Robert G. Abrams , Baker & Hostetler LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellee National Association of Music Merchants, Inc.

Neil G. Epstein , Keith E. Smith , Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Philadelphia, PA; Christopher M. Young , DLA Piper LLP (US), San Diego, CA, for Defendant-Appellee Hoshino (U.S.A.), Inc.

Lawrence G. Scarborough , J. Alex Grimsley , Bryan Cave LLP, Phoenix, AZ, for Defendants-Appellees Fender Musical Instruments Corporation and Kaman Music Corp.

Tim Harvey , Riley Warnock & Jacobson, PLC, Nashville, TN, for Defendant-Appellee Gibson Guitar Corp. DBA Gibson U.S.A.

Opinion by Judge BEA; Dissent by Judge PREGERSON.

OPINION

Where a large musical-instrument retailer pressures individual guitar manufacturers to set the lowest prices at which the manufacturers will permit any retailer to advertise the manufacturers' products — and each manufacturer acquiesces — can we infer the manufacturers conspired among themselves...

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