holding that offsets are calculated after trebling the verdict because the “efficacy [of the treble damages provision] should not be weakened by judicial construction”
How later courts described this case
- holding that offsets are calculated after trebling the verdict because the “efficacy [of the treble damages provision] should not be weakened by judicial construction”
- explaining, in antitrust context, that any other process would leave plaintiffs without “the whole to which they were entitled”
- no Sherman Act violation found
- coerced participation in an illegal scheme does not excuse the actor
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
STEPHENS, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I concur with the opinion insofar as it treats of the subject of damages. I express no opinion as to the rulings upon the objections to the evidence.