ACKLEY v. GULF OIL CORPORATION

No. 266, Docket 89-7563.

889 F.2d 1280 (1989)

Frank ACKLEY, d/b/a Village Square Chevron, Robert A. Blosio, d/b/a Long Ridge Chevron, Inc., James D. Chayka, d/b/a Home Gulf Service, Inc., Robert Cohn, d/b/a Fairport Gulf, Vincent Condito, d/b/a Vinny's Courtland Service, George S. Lombardo, Jr., d/b/a Avon Chevron Service, Inc., Paul A. Morello, Sr., d/b/a Morello's Gulf/Morello's Service Station, Douglas Schley, d/b/a Fairfield Gulf, John J. Todd III, d/b/a Danbury Gulf, Inc., George Williamson, d/b/a George Williamson Auto Electric, Inc., Thomas S. Zawatski, d/b/a Cos Cob Gulf, David Maguire, d/b/a Al & Bill's Gulf Service, Inc., Kenneth Cerritelli, d/b/a Cerritelli Chevron Service, Inc., Santo J. Ciarcia, d/b/a Glastonbury Chevron, Donald Haviland, d/b/a Chevron Car Wash of New Canaan and Frederick O'Neil, d/b/a Chevron Car Wash, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GULF OIL CORPORATION, Chevron U.S.A., Inc., and Cumberland Farms, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Farrell, Stamford, Conn. (Farrell & Barr, Stamford, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Richard M. Reynolds, Hartford, Conn. (Scott P. Moser, James Sicilian, Steven M. Greenspan, Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, Conn., and Robert P. Taylor, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for defendants-appellees Gulf Oil and Chevron.

Paul D. Sanson, Hartford, Conn. (James B. Pomeroy, Mark P. Anderson, Shipman & Goodwin, Hartford, Conn., and Mark G. Howard, Associate Gen. Counsel, Cumberland Farms, Inc., of counsel), for defendant-appellee Cumberland Farms.

Dimitri G. Daskalopoulos, Washington, D.C., filed a brief for amicus curiae Service Station Dealers of America.

Nathaniel J. Nazareth, North Kingstown, R.I. (Rogers & Nazareth, North Kingstown, R.I.), filed a brief for amicus curiae Connecticut-Rhode Island Gasoline Retailers & Garage Owners Ass'n, Inc.

Before MINER and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges, and LASKER, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Plaintiffs-appellants, fourteen Connecticut service station operators (hereafter the "Dealers"), appeal from a summary judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Burns, Ch. J.) in favor of defendants-appellees Gulf Oil Corporation, Chevron U.S.A., Inc., and Cumberland Farms, Inc. In three separate actions, later consolidated, the Dealers alleged claims grounded in violations of the Petroleum Marketing Practices...

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