CONLEY PUB. GROUP v. JOURNAL COMMUNICATIONS

No. 01-3128.

265 Wis.2d 128 (2003)

2003 WI 119

665 N.W.2d 879

CONLEY PUBLISHING GROUP LTD., Freeman Newspapers LLC and Lakeshore Newspapers, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. JOURNAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC., and Journal Sentinel, Inc., Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided July 17, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiffs-appellants there were briefs by W. Stuart Parsons, Brian D. Winters, Steven J. Berryman, Robert J. Pluta, and Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, and oral argument by Steven J. Berryman.

For the defendants-respondents there was a brief by John R. Dawson, James T. McKeown, G. Michael Halfenger, Paul Bargren, and Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, and oral argument by John R. Dawson.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Robert H. Friebert, Matthew W. O'Neill, and Friebert, Finerty & St. John, S.C., Milwaukee, and Anne Berlemann Kearney, Joseph D. Kearney, and Appellate Consulting Group, Milwaukee, on behalf of the Wisconsin Utilities Association.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Daniel Blinka, Milwaukee, William C. Gleisner, III, Madison, and R. George Burnett and Liebmann, Conway, Olejniczak & Jerry, S.C., Green Bay, on behalf of the Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers.


¶ 1. DAVID T. PROSSER, J.

This case involves allegations of predatory pricing by one Wisconsin newspaper against another. The Circuit Court for Waukesha County, Donald J. Hassin, Judge, dismissed the antitrust claims of Conley Publishing Group Ltd., et al., (Conley) against Journal Communications, Inc., and Journal Sentinel, Inc., (collectively, the Journal) and granted the defendants summary judgment. Conley appealed. The case is now before us on certification...

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