AMAREL v. CONNELL

Nos. 94-15803, 95-16121.

102 F.3d 1494 (1996)

J. William AMAREL; Jack E. Carrico and Pamela Fawn Carrico; Reason Farms; Starkey Ranch, Inc.; Danley Bros., Inc.; Rodrick Ranch, Inc.; Allen Etchepare; A. Charles Etchevarry; Sohnrey Ranches; Jay Dee Garr; Maxwell Spyres; Morley Green, aka Nor-Cal Brokerage; Yuba Farms Co.; Johnson Equities, Inc.; Lambirth, C. Farms, Inc.; McKnight, J.H. Ranch, Inc.; Larry E. Middleton; Henry C. Moore, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Grover CONNELL; Connell Rice and Sugar Co.; Joseph L. Alioto, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 2, 1996.

As Amended January 15, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard I. Langer and Kenneth L. Fox, Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, PA, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Eugene Crew and Margaret C. McHugh, Townsend, Townsend, Khourie & Crew, San Francisco, CA; and Mitchell Blumenthal, Sunnyvale, CA, for defendants-appellees.

Before: SCHROEDER and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges, and FITZGERALD, District Judge.


MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arose out of a complex, lengthy, and bitterly contested antitrust suit. Plaintiffs-appellants, independent California rice farmers, appeal the district court's March 1994 judgment for defendants-appellees, a rice exporter, its president, and its lawyer. That judgment was based in part on a jury verdict for defendants as to plaintiffs' Section 2 Sherman Act conspiracy claims and violations of the California Unfair Practices...

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