MARIN COUNTY BD. OF REALTORS, INC. v. PALSSON

Docket No. S.F. 23365.

16 Cal.3d 920 (1976)

549 P.2d 833

130 Cal. Rptr. 1

MARIN COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS, INC., Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent, v. EUGENE PALSSON, Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 24, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Harold L. Howard and Quantz & Howard for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Warren J. Abbott and Anthony C. Joseph, Assistant Attorneys General, Michael I. Spiegel and William S. Clark, Deputy Attorneys General, John K. Van de Kamp, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Harry B. Sondheim and Jay J. Becker, Deputy District Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Bianchi, Hoskins & Rosenberg, Bagley, Bianchi, Hoskins & Rosenberg, Albert Bianchi and Hugh J. Cadden for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent.

Moses Lasky, Malcolm T. Dungan and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

We decide here for the first time the extent to which the state antitrust law circumscribes the practices of a multiple listing service operated by a county board of realtors. We conclude that the Marin County Board of Realtors has violated the Cartwright Act (Bus. & Prof. Code, §§ 16720, 16726) by limiting its membership to persons primarily engaged in the...

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