Petition of the day
By Kate Howard
on Mar 15, 2017
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.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
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/