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U.S. v. NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.

No. 96-2001.

109 F.3d 1 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 17, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark S. Popofsky, Attorney, Antitrust Division, U.S. Dep't of Justice, Washington, DC, with whom Anne K. Bingaman, Assistant Attorney General, Joel I. Klein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, John J. Powers, III, Robert B. Nicholson, David A. Blotner, Lisa M. Phelan, and Reginald K. Tom, Attorneys, Antitrust Division, were on brief, for the United States.

Richard G. Parker, Washington, DC, with whom Geoffrey D. Oliver, Alan M. Cohen, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, William H. Kettlewell, and Dwyer & Collora were on brief, for Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.

John G. Roberts, Jr., David G. Leitch, H. Christopher Bartolomucci, and Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., Washington, DC, on brief for Government of Japan, amicus curiae.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This case raises an important, hitherto unanswered question. In it, the United States attempts to convict a foreign corporation under the Sherman Act, a federal antitrust statute, alleging that price-fixing activities which took place entirely in Japan are prosecutable because they were intended to have, and did in fact have, substantial effects in this country. The district court, declaring that a criminal antitrust prosecution could not be...

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