WILLIAM O. GILLEY ENTERS, INC. v. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO.

No. 06-56059.

561 F.3d 1004 (2009)

WILLIAM O. GILLEY ENTERPRISES, INC., a Nevada corporation doing business in California and the estate of William O. Gilley, deceased; Dennis Decota, an individual; Patrick Palmer, an individual on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY; Chevron Corporation; Exxon Corporation; Mobil Oil Opinion Corporation; Exxon/Mobil Corporation; Shell Oil Company; Texaco Inc.; Tosco Corporation; Ultramar Diamond Shamrock; Valero Corporation; Conocophilips Petroleum Corporation; Chevron/Texaco Corporation; Tesoro Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 3, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Kagay, Spiegel, Liao & Kagay LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Timothy D. Cohelan, Cohelan & Khoury, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Hojoon Hwang, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Peter H. Mason, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee.

David M. Foster, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Washington, DC, for the defendant-appellee.

Patrick J. Sullivan, Law Offices of Patrick J. Sullivan, Oceanside, CA, for defendants-appellees ExxonMobil Oil Corp., Exxon Corp., and Mobil Oil Corp.

Before: STEPHEN S. TROTT, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.


TROTT, Circuit Judge:

The district court granted Defendants' motion to dismiss Plaintiffs' antitrust claim founded on § 1 of the Sherman Act, holding that 1) Aguilar v. Atlantic Richfield Co., 25 Cal.4th 826, 107 Cal.Rptr.2d 841, 24 P.3d 493 (2001), precludes the allegations made in the operative pleading; 2) Defendants' exchange agreements...

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