OLYMPIA EQUIP. LEASING CO. v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO.

No. 85-3150.

797 F.2d 370 (1986)

OLYMPIA EQUIPMENT LEASING COMPANY, ALFCO Telecommunications Company, and Paula Jeanne Feldman, personal representative of the estate of Abraham Feldman, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 18, 1986.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 6, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Hartzell, Jr., Debevoise & Plimpton, New York City, for defendant-appellant.

Paul E. Slater, Sperling Slater & Spitz, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before BAUER, POSNER and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 6, 1986.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs, affiliated companies (now defunct) and their assignee — we shall refer to the plaintiffs collectively as "Olympia" — brought this suit in 1977 against Western Union Telegraph Company, seeking damages for monopolization and attempted monopolization under section 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2, and for breach of contract under state law. The...

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