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IN RE INDUSTRIAL GAS ANTITRUST LITIGATION

No. 81-2567.

681 F.2d 514 (1982)

In re INDUSTRIAL GAS ANTITRUST LITIGATION Robert C. BICHAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CHEMETRON CORPORATION, a corporation; Allegheny Ludlum Industries, Inc., a corporation; Airco Industrial Gas, a division of Airco, Inc., a corporation; Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., a corporation; Liquid Air Corporation of North America, a corporation; Liquid Air, Inc., a corporation; and Linde Division, a division of Union Carbide Corporation, a corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 25, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael W. Rathsack, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Henry P. Sailer, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees.

Before BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and BARTELS, Senior District Judge.

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

The issue on appeal is whether Robert C. Bichan, a salaried executive who was terminated from his position as president of Chemetron's Industrial Gas Division and blacklisted by the industrial gas industry, has standing to bring a private treble damage action against his employer under § 4 of the Clayton Act. 15 U.S.C. § 15. The district court held that Bichan could not maintain the action because he was not within the target area of...

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