IN RE WHOLESALE GROCERY PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIG.

Nos. 11-3768, 11-3773.

707 F.3d 917 (2013)

In re WHOLESALE GROCERY PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION. King Cole Foods, Inc.; JFM Market, Inc.; MJF Market, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants v. SuperValu, Inc.; C & S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., Defendants-Appellees The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Amicus on Behalf of Appellees. In re Wholesale Grocery Products Antitrust Litigation. Blue Goose Super Market, Inc.; Millennium Operations, Inc., doing business as R.C. Dick's Market, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. SuperValu, Inc.; C & S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., Defendants-Appellees The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Amicus on Behalf of Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: February 13, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Dangel, III , argued, Boston, MA, M. David Rosenberg , on the brief, Cambridge, MA, for appellants in No. 11-3768.

Richard Bruce Drubel , argued, Hanover, NH, Kimberly H. Schultz , Matthew J. Henken , Ethan T. Frechette , Hanover, NH, W. Joseph Bruckner , Elizabeth R. Odette , Minneapolis, MN, on the brief, for appellants in No. 11-3773.

Stephen Paul Safranski , argued, Minneapolis, MN, Todd Alan Wind , Karl Craig Wildfang , Martin R. Lueck , Damien A. Riehl , Minneapolis, MN, Christopher J. MacAvoy , Charles A. Loughlin , David S. Shotlander , Washington, DC, on the brief, for appellees.

Evan M. Tager , Robin S. Conrad , Andrew J. Pincus , Archis Ashok Parasharami , Kathryn L. Comerford Todd, Sheldon Gilbert, Scott M. Noveck , Washington, DC, on the amicus brief in support of appellees.

Before MURPHY, BENTON, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.


SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.

Appellants are five retail grocers ("the Retailers"), each attempting to bring class-action antitrust claims against one of two wholesale grocers ("the Wholesalers"). Each Retailer is a customer of only one of the Wholesalers, has an arbitration agreement with only that Wholesaler, and is attempting to use an antitrust conspiracy theory to bring suit against the Wholesaler with whom it neither does business nor has an arbitration agreement...

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