Joseph L. BECKERS, and Daniel J. Miotke, on behalf of themselves and as representatives of a class of all other purchasers of snowmobiles and snowmobile supplies in the United States, Appellants,
v.
INTERNATIONAL SNOWMOBILE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION, AMF, Inc., Arctic Enterprises, Inc., Boa-Ski Limited, Bombardier Limited, Coleman Co., Inc., Deere & Co., Kawasaki Motor Corp. U.S.A., Massey-Ferguson, Inc., Brunswick Corporation, Outboard Marine Corporation, Scorpion, Inc., Skiroule, Lt'ee, Sno-Jet, Inc., Textron, Inc., U. S. Suzuki Motor Corporation, Limited, Yamaha Motor Company Limited, Appellees.
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Submitted May 19, 1978.
Decided August 21, 1978.
Rehearing Denied September 15, 1978.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
John E. Thomas of Cochrane & Bresnahan, St. Paul, Minn., for appellants.
Hugh Latimer of Bergson, Borkland, Margolis & Adler, Washington, D. C., for appellees.
Robert R. Weinstine, Steven C. Tourek, Oppenheimer, Wolff, Foster, Shepard and Donnelly, St. Paul, Minn., for defendant Arctic Enterprises, Inc.
Stuart W. Rider, Jr., Rider, Bennett, Egan, Johnson & Arundel, Minneapolis, Minn., John T. Loughlin, Robert W. Sheppy, Bell, Boyd, Lloyd, Haddad & Burns, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Deere & Co.
Frank Claybourne, Robert J. Schmit, Doherty, Rumble & Butler, St. Paul, Minn., for defendant Kawasaki Motor Corp. U. S. A.
Edward J. Parker, Timothy Butler, Lindquist & Vennum, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant Brunswick Corp.
Frank Hammond, Briggs & Morgan, St. Paul, Minn., for defendant Outboard Marine Corp.
Irving R. Brand, Maslon, Kaplan, Edelman, Borman, Brand & McNulty, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant Scorpion, Inc.
Elliot S. Kaplan, Robins, Davis & Lyons, Minneapolis, Minn., Henry P. Sailer, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., for defendant Textron, Inc.
Hugh Latimer, Robert W. DeVos, Jr., Bergson, Borkland, Margolis & Adler, Washington, D. C., for defendant AMF Inc.
Gordon G. Busdicker, Gordon B. Conn, Jr., Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendants AMF Inc. and U. S. Suzuki Motor Corp., Limited.
Peter Dorsey, Robert A. Schwartzbauer, Dorsey, Windhorst, Hannaford, Whitney & Halladay, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendants International Snowmobile Industry Association, Bombardier Ltd. and Coleman Co., Inc.
Richard D. Allen, Richard D. Allen Ltd., Minneapolis, Minn., for Yamaha Motor Co. Limited.
Connor F. Schmid, Mackall, Crounse & Moore, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant Massey-Ferguson, Inc.
Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Senior Circuit Judge, and LAY and HENLEY, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 15, 1978.
HENLEY, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, purchasers of snowmobiles, brought this antitrust class action alleging that appellees had engaged in several anti-competitive practices, including resale price maintenance. The district court1 held that as "indirect purchasers," appellants were precluded from maintaining their action under Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois,
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