NORTH MISSISSIPPI COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. JONES

No. 85-4196.

792 F.2d 1330 (1986)

NORTH MISSISSIPPI COMMUNICATIONS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Douglas W. JONES, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 27, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Cocke, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Nat G. Troutt, Senatobia, Miss., for Jones & DeSoto Co. Tribune.

Robert J. Kelly, Hernando, Miss., for DeSoto Co. Bd. Supervisor, Renfro, Robinson, Wallace, Riley and Lloyd.

Wm. W. Ballard, Hernando, Miss., Lawrence J. Franck, John C. Henegan, Allen W. Perry, Jackson, Miss., for Hernando Bank, Ballard & Burnett.

Before GEE, RUBIN, and GARZA, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A newspaper and two of its employees fired a broadside of antitrust, civil rights, and pendent state tort claims against a bank, a competing newspaper, and a County Board of Supervisors. After the plaintiffs had rested their case in the bench trial, the district court dismissed all of their claims. We hold that the record supports the trial court's judgment dismissing the antitrust charges, but that the factual findings on the civil...

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