210 F3d 111 Price Jessup Linda Vaughn Sally Kelly Susan Owens Annette Watkins Nancy Hope Love v. The American Kennel Club Inc Labrador Retriever Club Inc
210 F.3d 111 (2nd Cir. 2000)
H. PRICE JESSUP, LINDA VAUGHN, SALLY A. KELLY, SUSAN OWENS, ANNETTE WATKINS and NANCY HOPE LOVE, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
THE AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB, INC. and LABRADOR RETRIEVER CLUB, INC., Defendants-Appellees.
Docket No. 99-9111
August Term, 1999
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
Argued: April 11, 2000
Decided: April 18, 2000
Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Thomas P. Griesa, then-Chief Judge, dismissing antitrust complaint alleging that defendants' setting of height standards for championship Labrador Retrievers violated the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1 and 2.
Affirmed.
DAVID WALTER SCHNARE, Stafford, Virginia (George E. Marzloff, Stafford, Virginia, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
DALE C. CHRISTENSEN, JR., New York, New York (Mark D. Kotwick, Seward & Kissell, New York, New York, Marshall Simonds, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, Boston, Massachusetts, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.
Before: NEWMAN, KEARSE, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.
Per Curiam:
The judgment is affirmed substantially for the reasons stated in then-Chief Judge Griesa's opinion reported at 61 F.Supp.2d 5 (S.D.N.Y. 1999).