AAA LIQUORS, INC. v. JOSEPH E. SEAGRAM & SONS

No. 81-1061.

705 F.2d 1203 (1982)

AAA LIQUORS, INC., a Colorado corporation; A-1 Discount Liquors, Inc., a Colorado corporation; Al's Liquor Store, Inc., a Colorado corporation; Colorado Liquors, Inc., a Colorado corporation; Crazy Farmer Liquor, Inc., a Colorado corporation; Dayton Liquors, Inc., a Colorado corporation; Arthur W. Stencil, d/b/a Dickerson's Liquors; Robert N. Shacklett, d/b/a Eleventh Avenue Liquor House; Lorenz and Ruth Friend, d/b/a Friend Liquor Store; Gloria DiManna, d/b/a Geno's Liquors; Irvin Rubin, d/b/a Jr Liquors; John DeCicco, d/b/a King's Center Liquors; Martha L. Shacklett, d/b/a Kipling Liquors; Devon Talbert, d/b/a Northglenn Liquors; Robert McIntyre, d/b/a Old Town Liquors; Herman and Delores Flax, d/b/a Skyline Liquors; Sam Fireman and Arno Bruck, d/b/a Ted's Liquors; and Thorton Cork'n Bottle, Inc., a Colorado corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. JOSEPH E. SEAGRAM AND SONS, INC., d/b/a Calvert Distillers Company, Brown Vintners Company, and Seagram Distilling Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Certiorari Denied May 2, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Bull of Quiat, Bucholtz, Bull & Laff, Denver, Colo. (Irvin M. Kent, Denver, Colo., with him on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Macdonald Flinn, New York City (Allan Gropper, also of White & Case, New York City; and H. Thomas Coghill and David J. Richman of Coghill & Goodspeed, Denver, Colo., with him on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before HOLLOWAY, McKAY and LOGAN, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied May 2, 1983. See 103 S.Ct. 1903.

LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

Nineteen Denver liquor stores ("small retailers") appeal the trial court's holding that funding by Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. ("Seagram") of price discounts its Denver wholesaler, Midwest Liquor Co. ("Midwest"), offered only to a few large volume Denver liquor stores was not a "contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade" prohibited by section one of the Sherman...

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