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Thepetition of the day is:

16-953

Issues:(1) Whether and when false commercial speech gives rise to antitrust liability; and specifically whether, if a party knowingly lies about its competitors’ products, has a specific intent to become, and a reasonable probability of becoming, a monopolist and harms competition (all as a found by the jury), that party’s false commercial speech can support a claim of attempted monopolization under Sherman Act 2; and (2) whether tainting the market with the sale of malfunctioning products constitutes exclusionary conduct.

Cases: Retractable Technologies, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Co.

Recommended Citation: Kate Howard, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Mar. 15, 2017, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2017/03/petition-of-the-day-1121/