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Article: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Price Squeeze Claim In Pacific Bell v. Linkline.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- March 9, 2009
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In an unanimous opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled in Pacific Bell v. linkLine that a price squeeze claim may not be brought under Section 2 of the Sherman Act when there is no antitrust duty to deal at the wholesale level. This decision builds on the Supreme Court's 2004 decision in Trinko where the Court held that a firm with no antitrust duty to deal with its rivals has no obligation to provide those rivals with a "sufficient" level of service. The Court also ruled that plaintiffs had not stated a predatory pricing claim under Brooke Group. Chief Justice Roberts declared that:
In this case, plaintiffs have not stated a ...