Antitrust

Abstract

In broadest terms, the performance of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit\u27 in the antitrust area \u27 during 1976 might best be characterized as solid. Although demonstrating little of the innovative yet well-reasoned analysis which distinguished several 1975 decisions, none of this year\u27s antitrust opinions appear to be as susceptible to criticism as were, for example, Eastex Aviation, Inc. v. Sperry & Hutchinson Co. and Cooper Liquor, Inc. v. Adolph Coors Co. Indeed, a substantial portion of the development of the substantive law in 1976 consisted of the court\u27s attempts to clarify some of the implications of certain of its prior rulings.\u2