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By the end of its last term, the Supreme Court decided four significant antitrust cases, resulting in one of the most antitrust-focused terms in the Court's history. In rendering decisions favorable to the defendants in all four cases, the Court quickly drew the dreaded 'pro-business' label. Commentators on the left criticized the decisions as marking a hard-right turn on antitrust policy, while those on the right lauded the Court's restoration of free-market principles to competition analysis.
These broad pronouncements overstate the similarities among the cases, which arose in a wide range of industries and raised quite different legal issues. Bell Atlantic v. Twombly was a suit by local telephone and Internet service subscribers against major providers of those services; it addressed the pleading standard a complaint must meet to avoid dismissal of a Sherman Act conspiracy claim. In Leegin Creative Leather Products v. PSKS, a women's apparel store's lawsuit against a maker of high-end leather accessories, the Court considered whether a manufacturer's setting of a minimum resale price for its goods is per se illegal or requires a more extensive consideration of competitive effects to assess liability. In Credit Suisse Securities v. Billing, a group of investors alleged major investment banks that underwrote Initial Public Offerings had conspired to extract high fees and other terms from IPO investors; the question was whether the securities laws preempted antirust claims based on this conduct. Finally, in Weyerhaeuser v. Ross-Simmons Hardwood Lumber, a sawmill operator claimed a competitor bid up the price of saw logs to drive competitors out of business; at issue was the proper test for determining when so-called 'predatory buying' violates the Sherman Act.
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