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Federal Court: No Sherman Act Violation Absent Anticompetitive Conduct and Anticompetitive Effects

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Back in late January, U.S. District Court Judge Xavier Rodriguez in the Western District of Texas granted summary judgment to Loredo Medical Center (LMC) and a locally-based interventional cardiology group (LMC Cardiology...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Three Point Shot - November 2024

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Ninth Circuit Does Flip Turn, Reversing Antitrust Case Against World Aquatics - In a decision that is making waves through the world of competitive swimming, the Ninth Circuit reversed a California district court’s grant...more

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Why Employers’ Non-Competes Could Still Be at Risk Despite FTC Rule Being ‘Set Aside’

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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Ryan LLC v. FTC granted summary judgment “setting aside” the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) Final Rule banning non-compete clauses between employers and...more

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Fourth Circuit Affirms That Continuing Violation Doctrine Does Not Preserve Time-Barred Antitrust Claims Without “New” Harm Or...

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On August 29, 2024, the Fourth Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision granting summary judgment and dismissing antitrust claims by CSX Transportation, Inc. (“CSX” or “Plaintiff”) against Norfolk Southern Railway Company...more

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Eastern District Of New York Finds Circumstantial Evidence Enough To Defeat Summary Judgment Motion In Antitrust Case Against...

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First, the Court considered whether there was sufficient evidence to conclude that the Defendants’ standards, in and of themselves, violated Section 1 and concluded there was not.  Instead, the Court held that...more

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Eleventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Boycott Conspiracy Claim Against Heavy Equipment Dealers

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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has recently affirmed a summary judgment order dismissing all claims by an importer of new Chinese construction equipment alleging a conspiracy to boycott and tortious interference with...more

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Decades-Running Antitrust Claims Against Sabre Continue To Overcome Hurdles

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Before being acquired by American Airlines, US Airways sued Sabre for anticompetitive conduct under the Sherman Act. The case begins trial later this spring, and the district court’s recent ruling on summary judgment...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Ninth Circuit Denies Sherman Act Challenge To No-Poach Provision

In an important decision on August 19, 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Aya Healthcare Services, Inc. v. AMN Healthcare, Inc. affirmed the grant of summary judgment in favor of AMN, finding that the...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - September 2019 #2

Curver Luxembourg, SARL v. Home Expressions Inc., Appeal No. 2018-2214 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 12, 2019) In a significant case in the field of design patents, the Federal Circuit clarified the scope of design patent infringement...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Applicability of State-Action Immunity to Private Parties

On January 7, 2019, in Green Sols. Recycling, LLC v. Reno Disposal Co., No. 3:16-cv-00334-MMD-CBC, 2019 BL 4611 (D. Nev. Jan. 07, 2019), the District Court for the District of Nevada granted summary judgment on plaintiff’s...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Food and Beverage Law Update: February 2018

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Deceptive Trade Practices - Meat Exporter Had No Duty Under FCA to Pay for Beef Inspection - In United States ex rel. Barrick v. Parker-Migliorini Int'l, LLC, 878 F. 3d 1224 (10th Cir. 2017), the court affirmed...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Third Circuit Holds Food Manufacturers Have Standing to Seek Damages From Egg Suppliers

Last week, in In re: Processed Egg Products Antitrust Litigation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a decision holding that purchasers of processed egg products have standing to seek damages from egg...more

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Antitrust Suit Against Michigan Hospital Moves Forward As Both Sides Denied Summary Judgment

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A federal district court denied summary judgment motions brought by both sides in the government’s antitrust suit against a Michigan hospital alleging an agreement not to compete in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act....more

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3rd Circuit Weighs In On Product-Hopping

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On Sept. 28, 2016, in Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Warner Chilcott Public Limited Co. (Doryx), the Third Circuit affirmed the lower court’s grant of summary judgment rejecting antitrust claims brought against Warner Chilcott...more

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Third Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Doryx ‘Product Hopping’ Suit

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On September 28, 2016, the Third Circuit issued an opinion in Mylan v. Warner Chilcott, upholding the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s holding on summary judgement that Defendants’ “product hopping” conduct did not violate...more

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Third Circuit Focuses on Relevant Product Market and Lack of Anticompetitive Conduct in Doryx Product-Hopping Case

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To prevail in a product-hopping case, a plaintiff must be prepared to establish both monopoly power and anticompetitive effects. On September 28, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Sham Citizen Petition Claim, Summary Judgment on False Advertising Claims **WEB ONLY**

Addressing Sherman Act and Lanham Act claims arising out of an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA), the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the district court’s dismissal of the plaintiffs’ Sherman Act claim...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

SanDisk defeats Walker Process Claim

The District Court for the Northern District of California granted defendant SanDisk’s motion for summary judgment in Giuliano, et al v. SanDisk Corp., et al, 4:10-cv-02787 (N.D. Cal. April 29, 2016). The plaintiffs had...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Affirms Grant of Summary Judgment Dismissing "Per Se" Antitrust Tying Claims Against...

On February 4, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a grant of summary judgment dismissing "per se" antitrust tying claims brought by a local concert promoter (It's My Party, or IMP) against its...more

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Accused Infringer Rides Antitrust Roller Coaster - Magnetar Technologies Corp. v. Intamin Ltd.

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Addressing antitrust issues in connection with a dismissed patent infringement lawsuit, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a grant of summary judgment dismissing antitrust and malicious prosecution...more

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ANDA Update - October 2015

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Federal Circuit Interprets Statutory Requirements for Biosimilar Regulatory Pathway - Amgen Inc., v. Sandoz Inc., (Fed. Cir. July 21, 2015): In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal...more

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Seventh Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Text Messaging Price-Fixing Claims

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On Thursday, April 9, 2015, the Seventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment for AT&T Mobility LLC, Verizon Wireless LLC, T-Mobile USA Inc. and Sprint Corp., in a text messaging price-fixing...more

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Summary Judgment Affirmed by Sixth Circuit in Broker Commission Price-Fixing Litigation

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On November 13, 2014, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of price-fixing claims against two home brokerage service firms in Kentucky, McMahon Co. and HomeService of America, Inc. Hyland, et al. v....more

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Ohio District Court Deems Hospital Alliance a Single Entity Incapable of Conspiring Under the Antitrust Laws

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On October 21, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio granted Defendants’ motion for summary judgment, holding that Premier Health Partners (“Premier”) and its affiliate hospitals, Atrium Health...more

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