Tag: SCOTUS
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes: Supreme Court Clarifies Commonality Analysis for...
Donald Falk, Marcia Goodman, Archis Parasharami, Aug 16, 2011
Last year we reported on the en banc Ninth Circuit's pathbreakingly broad decision affirming the certification...
Just What the Doctor Ordered, A Second Opinion for Vertical Price...
Morissa Falk, Jay Himes, Jan 25, 2010
The debate over RPM centers on the fact that vertical price-fixing’s purpose is to increase an item’s price...
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes: Supreme Court Clarifies Commonality Analysis for...
Donald Falk, Marcia Goodman, Archis Parasharami, Aug 16, 2011
Last year we reported on the en banc Ninth Circuit's pathbreakingly broad decision affirming the certification...
Antitrust Class Actions After Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
William Monts III, Aug 15, 2011
Class action lawsuits are a staple of private antitrust litigation in the United States. Over the last four decades,...
Duking It Out in Antitrust Price-Fixing: Class Actions After Dukes
Jay Himes, William Reiss, Aug 15, 2011
In Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, the United States Supreme Court rejected class certification in a gargantuan gender...
Implausible Wrongs and Dissimilarities: The Supreme Court Continues Its Anti-Litigation Trend,...
Marcia McCormick, Aug 15, 2011
The Supreme Court's decision this term in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, has broad implications for the future of class actions, particularly...
Implications of Wal-Mart v. Dukes for Federal Antitrust Class Actions
William Michael, Aidan Synnott, Aug 15, 2011
On June 20, 2011, the United States Supreme Court ruled that "one of the most expansive class actions...
The linkLine Decision: Section 2 Gets Squeezed Further
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Scott Martin, Apr 15, 2009
Though antitrust cases have appeared with surprising frequency on...
Joint Ventures and the Sherman Act: The Problem Revealed by American...
Thomas Brown, Katherine Robison, Ian Simmons, Jan 07, 2011
The transcript of the oral argument in this year's most watched antitrust case, American Needle v....
When Does a Joint Venture Act as a Single Economic Entity?
Gregory Werden, Jan 07, 2011
The "Sherman Act contains a 'basic distinction between concerted and independent action.'" The concerted action of several competing firms could...
