Court Opinion

ID: 9463988
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:22:33.732679+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:24.222634
License: Public Domain

MOORE, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in so much of the majority opinion as affirms the direction of a verdict on the breach of contract count and I also concur in the remand for trial of the monopolization and the attempt to monopolize claims. Since a remand requires a trial, in my opinion any comments on the effect of such evidence as may be developed therein is premature and inadvisable. All that is before us is the evidence adduced by plaintiff in its direct case. Ultimately the case will go to the jury on all the evidence offered by plaintiff and defendant. This evidence will have to be weighed by the jury in the light of a judge’s charge as to the legal background against which it will resolve the facts, including motive, intent and credibility.
As to evidentiary rulings, I would also leave them to the trial judge. He should be allowed to exercise his discretion to admit or exclude as the situation may then exist rather than be told in advance how to rule.
There will be ample opportunity for a reviewing court to examine the jury’s ver*509diet, the court’s ruling on evidence, the charge and the evidence upon which it is based, when, as and if, the record comes before us. In short, all we are required to do at the present time is to pass upon whether there were questions of fact to be resolved by a jury. We say that there were. Until we know the jury’s answer, we should not, even in an anticipatory or declaratory way, in my opinion, make any pronouncement as to a record yet unmade.