Court Opinion

ID: 9459810
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:32:26.784167+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:20.876051
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SIMPSON, Circuit Judge
(concurring specially):
I concur in Judge Bell’s opinion for the Court in this case solely because I am institutionally bound by the views of the majority of the en banc Court in Littlejohn, 5 Cir. 1973, 483 F.2d 1140. If free to do so, I would adhere to the “underwriting” theory of liability under § 2(a) of the Clayton Act,1 2of the majority opinion of the original panel in Littlejohn.2 See further my separate opinion, joined by Judges Brown, Wisdom, Godbold and Morgan, concurring in part and dissenting in part from Judge Bell’s opinion for the majority of the en banc Court, Littlejohn v. Shell Oil Co., 5 Cir. 1973, en banc, 483 F.2d 1140.

. Based upon Moore v. Mead’s Fine Bread, 1964, 348 U.S. 115, 75 S.Ct. 148, 99 L.Ed. 145.

. Littlejohn v. Shell Oil Co., 5 Cir. 1972, 456 F.2d 225.