ALAKAYAK v. BRITISH COLUMBIA PACKERS, LTD.

Nos. S-9259, S-9359.

48 P.3d 432 (2002)

Louie ALAKAYAK; Wassillie Andrews; Peter Chernishoff; Agnes Hansen; Jerry L. Hatton; and Christine Monroe, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated; Carl W. Evon and David D. Tarabochia, Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. BRITISH COLUMBIA PACKERS, LIMITED; Icicle Seafoods, Inc.; Marubeni Corporation; Marubeni America Corporation; Nelbro Packing Company; Nichirei Corporation; Nichiro Corporation; Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.; North Pacific Processors, Inc.; Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc.; Okaya & Company, Ltd.; Okaya (USA), Inc.; Okaya (Canada) Company, Ltd.; Peter Pan Seafoods, Inc.; Trident Seafoods Corporation; Unisea, Inc.; Wards Cove Packing Company, Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 31, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip Paul Weidner, Phillip Paul Weidner & Associates, Inc., Anchorage, Bruce F. Stanford, Law Offices of Bruce F. Stanford, Anchorage, Stephen D. Susman and Parker C. Folse III, Susman Godfrey, L.L.P., Seattle, Washington, and Frederick P. Furth and Bruce J. Wecker, The Furth Firm, San Francisco, California, for Appellants and Cross-Appellees.

Douglas J. Serdahely, Patton Boggs, L.L.P., Anchorage, Liaison Counsel for Certain of Processor Appellees and Cross-Appellants British Columbia Packers, Limited, Nelbro Packing Company, Icicle Seafoods, Inc., North Pacific Processors, Inc., Unisea, Inc., and Wards Cove Packing Company.

James N. Reeves, Dorsey & Whitney, L.L.P., Anchorage, and Richard M. Clinton and Joseph Klein, Dorsey & Whitney, L.L.P., Seattle, Washington, for Appellees and Cross-Appellants Nichirei Corporation and Unisea, Inc., and also on behalf of all importer Appellees and Cross-Appellants Marubeni Corporation, Marubeni America Corporation, Nichirei Corporation, Nichiro Corporation, Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd., Okaya & Company, Ltd., Okaya (USA), Inc., and Okaya (Canada) Company, Ltd.

William M. Wuestenfeld and Michael D. Corey, Sandberg, Wuestenfeld & Corey, Anchorage, Dexter A. Washburn, Law Offices of Dexter A. Washburn, Seattle, WA, and Geoffrey P. Knudsen, Law Offices of Geoffrey P. Knudsen, Seattle, Washington, for Appellees and Cross-Appellants British Columbia Packers, Limited and Nelbro Packing Company.

Robert L. Richmond and Daniel T. Quinn, Richmond & Quinn, Anchorage, and James L. Magee and David C. Lundsgaard, Graham & Dunn, Seattle, Washington, for Appellee and Cross-Appellant Icicle Seafoods, Inc.

James N. Leik, Perkins Coie, L.L.P., Anchorage, and David J. Burman and Brent Snyder, Perkins Coie, L.L.P., Seattle, Washington, for Appellees and Cross-Appellants Marubeni Corporation, Marubeni America Corporation, and North Pacific Processors, Inc.

David B. Ruskin, Anchorage, and Michael E. Kipling, Phillip H. Ginsberg, and Carl J. Marquardt, Stokes Lawrence, P.S., Seattle, Washington, for Appellees and Cross-Appellants Nichiro Corporation and Peter Pan Seafoods, Inc.

Clay A. Young, Delaney, Wiles, Hayes, Gerety & Ellis, P.C., Anchorage, and Albert R. Malanca, Thomas J. Greenan, and Kenneth Kieffer, Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim, Tacoma, Washington, for Appellee and Cross-Appellant Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.

Kenneth P. Eggers, Groh Eggers, L.L.C., Anchorage, and Robert J. Adolph, Adolph & Gamache, P.S., Seattle, Washington, for Appellee and Cross-Appellant Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc.

Mark E. Ashburn, Ashburn & Mason, Anchorage, and Richard E. Donovan and Nicholas J. Panarella, Kelley, Drye & Warren, L.L.P., New York, New York, for Appellees and Cross-Appellants Okaya & Co., Ltd., Okaya (USA), Inc., and Okaya (Canada) Co., Ltd.

Jeffrey M. Feldman, Susan Orlansky, and Ruth Botstein, Feldman & Orlansky, Anchorage, and Ralph Palumbo and Lynn M. Engel, Summit Law Group, Seattle, Washington, for Appellee and Cross-Appellant Trident Seafoods, Inc.

Bruce E. Falconer, Hicks, Boyd, Chandler & Falconer, Anchorage, and Douglas M. Fryer and Jeffrey L. Jernegan, Mikkelborg, Broz, Wells & Fryer, Seattle, Washington, for Appellee and Cross-Appellant Wards Cove Packing Company.

Richard J. Todd, Assistant Attorney General, Anchorage, and Bruce M. Botelho, Attorney General, Juneau, for Amici Curiae States of Alaska, Hawaii, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, and West Virginia.

Before: FABE, Chief Justice, MATTHEWS, and BRYNER, Justices.


OPINION

FABE, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A class of commercial sockeye salmon fishers who fished in Bristol Bay between 1989 and 1995 brought an antitrust action under the Alaska Antitrust Act against salmon processors and importers who allegedly conspired to depress the prices paid to fishers for raw salmon. After the class settled with some defendants, the superior court granted summary judgment as to all other defendants, holding...

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