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UNITED STATES v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.

No. 83-1831.

743 F.2d 1114 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. and Robert L. Crandall, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 15, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin R. Sullivan, Michael H. Simon, Anne E. Blair, Elliott M. Seiden, Antitrust Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Robert B. Nicholson, Edward T. Hand, J. Paul McGrath, Appellate Sect., Antitrust Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Cantey, Hanger, Gooch, Munn & Collins, Cecil E. Munn, Robert S. Travis, Fort Worth, Tex., Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, John L. Hauer, Dallas, Tex., Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Joseph Tate, Philadelphia, Pa., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, John J. Hanson, Robert E. Cooper, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before JOHNSON, HIGGINBOTHAM and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

The question presented in this antitrust case is whether the government's complaint states a claim of attempted monopolization under section 2 of the Sherman Act against the defendants, American Airlines, and its president Robert L. Crandall, for Crandall's proposal to the president of Braniff Airlines that the two airlines control the market and set prices. The district court dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim under...

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