Jerome Lasalvia and Peggy Lasalvia, Husband and Wife v. United Dairymen of Arizona, an Arizona Marketing Association Robert M. Girard and Leonard F. Cheatham

804 F.2d 1113 1986-2 Trade Cases 67,355 , 6 Fed.R.Serv.3d 639 Jerome LaSALVIA and Peggy LaSalvia, husband and wife, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED DAIRYMEN OF ARIZONA, an Arizona marketing association; Robert M. Girard; and Leonard F. Cheatham, Defendants-Appellees. No. 85-1592. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Feb. 10, 1986. Decided Nov. 21, 1986. Rex Lee, Robert J. Gibson, Phoenix, Ariz., for plaintiffs-appellants. Sydney Berde, Berde & Hagstrom, P.A., St. Paul, Minn., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Before GOODWIN, HUG and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges. GOODWIN, Circuit Judge: 1 Jerome and Peggy LaSalvia, operators of an independent dairy farm in Laveen, Arizona, appeal the dismissal of their antitrust claims against defendants United Dairymen of Arizona ("UDA"), a dairy farmers' cooperative, Robert Girard, its general manager, and Leonard Cheatham, its president until 1983. Both the LaSalvias and UDA produce milk within the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Central Arizona Milk Marketing Area ("CAMMA"). The district court excluded evidence of several of the LaSalvias'…