CHAMPAGNE METALS, an Oklahoma Limited Liability Company, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
KEN-MAC METALS, INC., an Ohio corporation, Samuel, Son & Co., Limited, an Ontario, Canada corporation, Samuel Specialty Metals, Inc., a New Jersey corporation, Metalwest, L.L.C., an Alabama limited liability company, Integris Metals, Inc., a New York corporation, Earle M. Jorgensen Company, a Delaware corporation, and Ryerson Tull, Inc., an Illinois corporation, Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Clyde A. Muchmore, Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, OK, (D. Kent Meyers and Mark S. Grossman, Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, OK, and Michael Burrage, Burrage Law Firm, Durant, OK, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Jeffrey W. Sarles, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Chicago, IL (David A. Ettinger, Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn, LLP, Detroit, MI, M. Richard Mullins, McAfee & Taft, A Professional Corporation, Oklahoma City, OK, Mark McLaughlin and Susan Nystrom Ellis, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Chicago, IL, Drew Neville, B.J. Rothbaum, Charles E. Geister III, Hartzog, Conger, Carson & Neville, Oklahoma City, OK, William J. O'Shaughnessy, McCarter English, Newark, NJ, Murray E. Abowitz, Abowitz, Timberlake & Dahnke, Oklahoma City, OK, Timothy R. Beyer, Brownstein Hyatt & Farber P.C., Denver, CO, Michael A. Rubenstein, McKinney & Stringer, PC, Oklahoma City, OK, David L. Hashmall, Felhaber, Larson, Fenlon & Vogt, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, Glen D. Huff and Steven J. Johnson, Foliart Huff Ottaway & Bottom, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK, Allan B. Goldman and Charles M. Stern, Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman, Los Angeles, CA, Alfred P. Murrah, Jr. and Fred A. Leibrock, Phillips McFall McCaffrey McVay & Murrah, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK, with him on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellees.
Before KELLY, SEYMOUR, and EBEL, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
After working in the aluminum industry for years, Michael Champagne struck out on his own and formed Champagne Metals ("Champagne"), an aluminum distributor (or "service center"). Service centers operate as middlemen in the industry, buying aluminum from mills and selling that aluminum to end users. Claiming that there exists an understanding in the industry to exclude new competitors, Champagne brought suit against a slew of older, more established...
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