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WAL-MART STORES, INC. v. VISA U.S.A., INC.

Nos. 04-0344, 04-1052, 04-0514, 04-1055.

396 F.3d 96 (2005)

WAL-MART STORES, INC., The Limited, Inc., Sears Roebuck and Co., Safeway Inc., Auto-Lab of Farmington Hills, Bernie's Army-Navy Store, Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation, Circuit City Stores, Inc., The Coffee Stop, Inc. d/b/a Torreo Coffee & Tea Company, Computer Supplies Unlimited, Denture Specialists, Inc., Payless Shoesource, Inc., Shoes Etc., Inc. d/b/a Arnold's Shoes, Scrub Shop, Inc., Sportstop, Inc., Geneva White, D.M.D., UCC Kwik Doc., Inc., f/k/a UCC Express, Inc., International Mass Retail Association, National Retail Federation, and Food Marketing Institute, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Constantine & Partners PC, et al., Class Counsel-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Dow Jones and Company, Inc., Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee, v. VISA U.S.A. INC. and MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL, INC., Defendants-Appellees, Citigroup, Inc., Pulse EFT Association, and Edgar, Dunn and Company, Interested Parties, v. Reyn's Pasta Bella LLC, Jeffrey Ledon DeWeese, M.D., Barry Leonard d/b/a Critter Fritters, Hat-In-The-Ring, Inc. d/b/a Eddie Rickenbacker's, Objectors-Appellants, Nucity Publications, Inc., Objector-Appellant, Lupita Llamas Martinez d/b/a Del Yaqui Restaurant, Armenta's Mexican Food, Inc., Objectors-Appellants, Leonardo's Pizza By The Slice, Inc., 710 Corp., Objectors-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, Roman Buholzer d/b/a The Continental Garden Restaurant, Objector-Cross-Appellee, Preston Center Personal Training, Inc., UCC Kwik Doc., Inc., f/k/a UCC Express, Inc., Duke Products, Inc., Southern Network Services, Inc., Sound Deals, Inc., Digital Solutions, Inc., Village Fabrics and Furnishings, Inc., Rental Solutions, Inc., Rent Tech, Inc., G & G Enterprises, NSG Enterprises, Inc., S & GJ Enterprises, Inc., Jac Vaca, Inc., John Wenturine, Y.P.I., Inc., Mobil Town USA, Inc., Young Pioneers, Inc., Digital Playroom, Inc., Wagner's Bakery, Inc., Beaches N Cream, Kickers' Corner of the Americas, Inc., MSV Records & Production, Inc., Southern Lady Flowers, Round House, Inc., Ron Jen, Inc., d/b/a The Boathouse, and Ron Fred, Inc., Objectors.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 4, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Archer, Archer & Hanson, Occidental, CA (James A. Kopcke, Golden Kopcke, LLP, San Francisco, CA, on the brief) for Objectors-Appellants Reyn's Pasta Bella, LLC, Jeffrey Ledon DeWeese, M.D., Barry Leonard d/b/a Critter Fritters, and Hat-In-The-Ring, Inc. d/b/a Eddie Rickenbacker's.

Stanley M. Grossman (H. Adam Prussin, John Balestriere, Murielle J. Steven Walsh, on the brief), Pomerantz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Howard Langer, John Grogan, Langer and Grogan, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, on the brief; Joseph Goldberg, Sara Berger, Alexandra Freedman Smith, Zachary Ives, Freedman Boyd Daniels Hollander Goldberg & Cline, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, on the brief) for Objector-Appellant Nu-City Publications, Inc.

John Rasmussen (Dale W. Robinson, on the brief), Johnson, Rasmussen, Robinson & Allen, P.L.C., Mesa, AZ for Objectors-Appellants Armenta's Mexican Food, Inc. and Lupita Llamas Martinez d/b/a Del Yaqui Restaurant.

N. Albert Bacharach, Jr., Gainesville, FL for Objectors-Appellants-Cross-Appellees Leonardo's Pizza By the Slice, Inc. and 710 Corp. Inc.

M. Laurence Popofsky (Stephen V. Bomse, Marie L. Fiala, Peggy J. Williams, Russell P. Cohen, on the brief), Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP, San Francisco, CA (Philip H. Curtis, Robert C. Mason, Arnold & Porter LLP, New York, NY, on the brief; Kevin J. Arquit, Joseph F. Tringali, Mariya S. Treisman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY, on the brief; Kenneth A. Gallo, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, on the brief; Keila D. Ravelo, Clifford Chance U.S. LLP, New York, N.Y. on the brief) for Defendants-Appellees.

Lloyd Constantine (Robert L. Begleiter, Matthew L. Cantor, Stacey Anne Mahoney, Michelle A. Peters, Amy N. Roth, Gordon Schnell, Jonathan Shaman, Jeffrey I. Shinder, on the brief), Constantine & Partners, New York, N.Y. for Class Counsel-Appellees-Cross-Appellants and for Class Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Lawrence W. Schonbrun, Law Offices of Lawrence W. Schonbrun, Berkeley, CA on submission for Objector-Cross-Appellee Roman Buholzer d/b/a The Continental Garden Restaurant.

Before: CABRANES and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

WESLEY, Circuit Judge.

Appellants challenge the district court's approval of a class action settlement, including the award of attorneys' fees. The class action involved approximately five million merchants and alleged, inter alia, that defendants Visa U.S.A. Inc. and MasterCard International Inc. tied merchant use of defendants' debit products to use of defendants' credit cards, in violation of the Sherman Act. Plaintiffs...

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