INDEPENDENT BANKERS v. NAT. CREDIT UNION

No. 96-C-0186-C.

936 F.Supp. 605 (1996)

INDEPENDENT BANKERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, Community Bankers of Wisconsin, Community First Bank of Rosholt, State Bank of Cross Plains, Citizen State Bank of Loyal, Plaintiffs, v. NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION; Farm Credit Administration; Farm Credit Bank, Seventh District; Commissioner of Credit Unions, State of Wisconsin; Credit Union Review Board, State of Wisconsin; Countryside Credit Union; Farm Credit Services of Northeast Wisconsin; Farm Credit Services of East Central Wisconsin; Farm Credit Services of Southeast Wisconsin; Farm Credit Services of North Central Wisconsin, ACA; Farm Credit Services of Madison, ACA; Farm Credit Services of Northwest Wisconsin; Farm Credit Services of Western Wisconsin, ACA; Karl F. Kappleman; Vicki Coughlin; Susan Gunn; Kenneth Sipple; Thomas O'Connell; Gordon Paulson; Wayne Slotten; and Robert Esch, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

August 15, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard J. Rubin, Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Independent Bankers Assc. of Am.

Kim Grimmer, Solheim, Billing & Grimmer, Madison, WI, for Community Bankers of Wisconsin, Community First Bank of Rosholt, State Bank of Cross Plains, Citizen State Bank of Loyal.

Eric D. Goulian, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for National Credit Union Admin., Farm Credit Administration

Marko J. Mrkonich, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, Minneapolis, MN for Farm Credit Bank, Seventh Dist., Farm Credit Services of N.E. WI, Farm Credit Services of E. Cent. WI, Farm Credit Services of S.E. WI, Farm Credit Services of N.C. WI, Farm Credit Services of Madison, Farm Credit Services of N.W. WI, Farm Credit Services of West WI, ACA.

Laura Sutherland, Asst. Atty. General, Madison, WI, for Commissioner of Credit Unions, Credit Union Review Board.

Jonathan Aked, Madison, WI, for Countryside Credit Union, Karl F. Kappleman, Vicki Coughlin, Susan Gunn, Kenneth Sipple, Thomas O'Connell, Gordon Paulson, Wayne Slotten, Robert Esch.


OPINION AND ORDER

CRABB, District Judge.

In this civil action a group of Wisconsin banks and two trade associations with members who conduct business in Wisconsin challenge the organizational set-up of defendant Countryside Credit Union, a business that intends to operate in the same region of Wisconsin as plaintiffs. Plaintiffs argue that Countryside Credit Union's organization violates both state and federal law and will be a source of unfair competition...

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