WESTOWNE SHOES, INC. v. BROWN GROUP, INC.

No. 96-1955.

104 F.3d 994 (1997)

WESTOWNE SHOES, INC. and Carl A. Biwer Co., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BROWN GROUP, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 17, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George P. Kersten (argued), Kenan J. Kersten, Kersten & McKinnon, Milwaukee, WI, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Ronald M. Wawrzyn (argued), Walter E. Zimmerman, Bryan B. House, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, WI, for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and FLAUM and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

In this diversity suit based on Wisconsin law, affiliated firms, now defunct, that owned retail shoe stores in Wisconsin and that we shall refer to collectively as "Westowne" fired a blunderbuss full of charges, mostly based on the common law of contracts but with trademark and antitrust allegations thrown in, against Westowne's former supplier, the Brown Shoe Company of antitrust fame. The district court granted summary judgment for Brown and...

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