FIRST AM. TITLE CO. OF S.D. v. S.D. LAND TITLE ASS'N

No. 82-1753.

714 F.2d 1439 (1983)

FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF SOUTH DAKOTA and First American Title Insurance Company of South Dakota, Appellants, v. SOUTH DAKOTA LAND TITLE ASSOCIATION, South Dakota Abstracter's Board of Examiners, Black Hills Land and Abstract Company, Dennis O. Murray, Security Land and Abstract Company, Glen M. Rhodes, Fall River County Abstract Company, Charles E. Clay, Custer Title Company, Betty J. Gould, Haakon County Abstract Company, Keith Emerson, Wayne Roe, and Charles Nass, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 11, 1983.

Certiorari Denied January 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynn, Jackson, Shultz & Lebrun, P.C., Donald R. Shultz, Gene N. Lebrun, Rapid City, S.D., Burns & Figa, P.C., Hugh A. Burns, Phillip S. Figa, Denver, Colo., for appellants.

Mark V. Meierhenry, Atty. Gen., Jeffrey P. Hallem, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, S.D., for state appellees.

Schmidt, Schroyer, Colwill & Zinter, P.C., Gary F. Colwill, Ronald G. Schmidt, Pierre, S.D., for appellees South Dakota Land Title Ass'n, Fall River Abstract Co., Charles E. Clay, Custer Title Co., Betty J. Gould, Haakon County Abstract Co., Keith Emerson, Wayne Roe and Charles Nass.

Before HEANEY and FAGG, Circuit Judges, and HANSON, Senior District Judge.


Certiorari Denied January 9, 1984. See 104 S.Ct. 709.

HANSON, Senior District Judge.

This antitrust case concerns alleged anticompetitive private and regulatory restraints on the South Dakota abstracting and title insurance businesses. Plaintiffs/appellants, First American Title Company of South Dakota and First American Title Insurance Company of South Dakota, contend that they were the victims of a price-fixing conspiracy, frivolous and sham litigation,...

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