The Ninth Circuit reversed. The special factors apply when a plaintiff cannot show power in a competitive foremarket and instead claims that a seller later exploited customers locked into a brand. They were unnecessary here because evidence directly supported a conventional claim that dominant forem
The Ninth Circuit held that a startup’s exclusion from Google platforms did not establish antitrust injury without facts showing harm to market-wide competition.
Judge Freeman grants in part and denies in part Bayer Healthcare’s motion for review of the Clerk’s taxation of costs in this private antitrust suit, restoring portions of the $1.2 million bill of costs Bayer originally sought as the prevailing party.
Magistrate Judge Corley denies the International Swimming League’s eve-of-trial requests to allow its founder Konstantin Grigorishin to testify remotely from Switzerland and to bar World Aquatics from arguing that the lawsuit itself was a superseding cause of ISL’s damages, in this long-running anti
Eastern District of California preliminarily approves a $303 million class action settlement between the National Collegiate Athletic Association and roughly 7,718 former ‘volunteer coaches’ who alleged the NCAA’s no-pay bylaw was an antitrust violation; the recovery exceeds 100% o