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FRIENDS FOR AMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE v. WAL-MART

Nos. 01-40376, 01-40420.

284 F.3d 575 (2002)

FRIENDS FOR AMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WAL-MART STORES, INC., doing business as Sam's Club, a Delaware Corporation; Sam's West, Inc., doing business as Sam's Club, Defendants-Appellees. Friends for American Free Enterprise Association, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Etc.; et al., Defendants, Sam's West, Inc., doing business as Sam's Club, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 1, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Galen E. Watje (argued), Dorothy Jean Buhr, Edwin Lee Sisam, Sisam & Watje, Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Ranae Bartlett (argued), Jon B. Comstock, Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, AR, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before JONES, WIENER, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

Friends for American Free Enterprise, an association of manufacturers' representatives, contends that Sam's Club is tortiously interfering with the contractual relationships between representatives and the manufacturers who supply merchandise to Sam's. The district court dismissed the case for lack of standing. As we agree that the nature of the case requires participation of the association's individual members, we AFFIRM the district...

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