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SMITH WHOLESALE CO. v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO

No. 05-6053.

477 F.3d 854 (2007)

SMITH WHOLESALE COMPANY, INC., Rice Wholesale Co., Inc., Andalusia Distributing Co., Inc., Dixie Tobacco & Candy Co., George Wholesale Co., Ltd., Independent Wholesale Inc., L.P. Shanks Co., McCarty-Hull Cigar Co., Inc., R.C. Taylor Distributing Co., Reidsville Grocery Co., Inc., A.B. Coker Co., Inc., Affiliated Foods, Inc., Acadia Wholesale & Tobacco Co., Caldwell Wholesale Co., Inc., Novelart Manufacturing Co., Yakima Distributing Co., Inc., Huntsville Wholesale Grocery, Pelican State Cigar & Tobacco, Inc., Plaintifs-Appellants, State of Mississippi, and State of Tennessee, Intervenor Plaintiffs, M.K. Grocery Co., Inc., and Corso, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: February 27, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Kyle M. Keegan, Roy, Kiesel, Keegan & DeNicola, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Appellants. Thomas Demitrack, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Kyle M. Keegan, Chris D. Kiesel, Roy, Kiesel, Keegan & DeNicola, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Earl R. Booze, Herrin, Booze, Rambo, Jenkins & Wheeler, Johnson City, Tennessee, for Appellants. Thomas Demitrack, Robert S. Walker, Michelle K. Fischer, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, Ohio, William C. Bovender, Hunter, Smith & Davis, Kingsport, Tennessee, Eric P. Berlin, Jones Day, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellee.

Before MOORE, GRIFFIN, and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.

In this case alleging illegal price discrimination in violation of Section 2(a) of the Clayton Act, as amended by the Robinson-Patman Price Discrimination Act ("the Act"), 15 U.S.C § 13(a), the plaintiffs-appellants, eighteen full-service wholesalers who are also direct distributors for defendant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company ("RJR"), appeal the district court's order of summary judgment entered pursuant to

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