Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Dawkins v. Nabisco, Inc.

Dawkins v. Nabisco, Inc., 433 U.S. 910 (1977)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1977-06-27
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • Inducing favorable governmental action, even for anticompeti-tive purposes, is not a violation of the antitrust law
  • "Only by inference can the existence of intent — or the differentiation between its forms, such as general or specific — be determined"
  • Where identity of confidential informant was not necessary to assure a fair opportunity to defendants to prepare their defense, identity could be -withheld
  • “a person who was not named in the wiretap order and was not a party to any conversation intercepted during that tap is not an ‘aggrieved person’ and may not move to suppress information derived from it”
  • “a person who was not named in the wiretap order and was not a party to a conversation intercepted during that tap is not an ‘aggrieved person’ and may not move to suppress information derived from it.”
  • one lawsuit does not constitute a pattern

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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.