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25A706 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application antitrust billing-practices corporate-disclosure emergency-medicine health-insurance medical-services Whether a group of health insurance providers can challenge emergency medical service providers' billing practices under federal antitrust law
25-667 CoStar Group, Inc., et al. v. Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived antitrust exclusive-dealing ninth-circuit plausible-relief refusal-to-deal sherman-act Whether a 'de facto' exclusive dealing claim is cognizable under the Sherman Act in the absence of exclusive contractual terms, programs, or policies,…
25A663 Amigo Shuttle Inc., et al. v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-05 Application antitrust competition monopoly port-authority sherman-act transportation Whether the Sherman Antitrust Act permits a finding of monopolization when a public authority allegedly facilitates an anticompetitive agreement betwe…
25A419 Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete antitrust class-certification damages-class-action expert-evidence federal-rule-civil-procedure predominance Whether a district court must resolve disputes about expert evidence when determining class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(…
25-326 Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust business-association circuit-split conspiracy optional-rule sherman-act Whether a business association that publishes an optional rule for its members can immunize the rule from being considered a conspiracy under Sherman …
25A35 Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-09 Presumed Complete antitrust enforcement-delegation market-competition no-commingling-rule sherman-act trade-association Whether a dominant national trade association may avoid antitrust liability under Section 1 of the Sherman Act by promulgating a facially anticompetit…
25-27 Judy A. Brannberg v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. Colorado 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived antitrust charter-school civil-rico due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-55 Whether Petitioner is entitled to $2.6 billion in civil RICO default judgment under Rule 55 where Defendants failed to respond, violating due process …
24A728 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., et al. v. Skot Heckman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete antitrust class-action consumer-protection due-process settlement ticket-sales Whether a class action settlement involving Ticketmaster and Live Nation violated due process or consumer protection standards by allegedly failing to…
24-5009 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied IFP antitrust antitrust-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process financial-fraud financial-services fraud judicial-oversight jury-trial Question not identified
23-1365 United States v. Brent Brewbaker Fourth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied antitrust antitrust-law bid-rigging horizontal-agreement per-se-rule sherman-act vertical-relationship Whether the existence of a vertical relationship between the competing bidders precluded the application of the established per se rule against horizo…
23-1292 Judy A. Brannberg v. Colorado Civil Rights Division, et al. Colorado 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act antitrust charter-school-regulation constitutional-review domestic-terrorism due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure injunctive-relief school-district-authority whistle-blower civil-rights
23-1191 Dru Choker, et al. v. National Veterinary Associates, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-standing civil-procedure conspiracy damage-relief damages impending-injury monopolistic-behavior monopoly sherman-act standing Whether a party injured by antitrust behavior leading to a monopolistic end has standing for damage relief under the Sherman Act's 15 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2, …
23-7380 Kenneth Leslie Caldwell v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-rights color-of-law constitution due-process government-accountability government-power legal-remedies standing united-states Is the 'United States' a medium employed by the United States of America assigned for the upholding of the United States Constitution
23A965 United States v. Brent Brewbaker Fourth Circuit 2024-04-26 Presumed Complete antitrust bid-rigging horizontal-restraint rule-of-reason sherman-act vertical-relationship Whether a hybrid vertical-horizontal restraint involving bid-rigging between a supplier and a bidder can be analyzed under the per se rule or requires…
23-1089 Coronavirus Reporter, et al. v. Apple Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure civil-rights digital-distribution due-process free-speech market-definition monopoly-conduct per-se-rule software-tying standing Did the District Court err in denying leave to amend a first-to-file developer antitrust lawsuit concerning free digital apps, when Petitioner Dr. Jef…
23-7054 Robert N. Young v. King Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust attorney-misconduct court-sanctions doj-fraud-recoveries false-claims-act judicial-procedure medicaid-drug-rebates medicaid-fraud qui-tam whistleblower-rights Question not identified
23-920 Brian Bowen, II v. Adidas America, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response Waived antitrust civil-rights due-process labor labor-market market-dominance ncaa-eligibility professional-athletics property-interest property-rights student-athlete Do elite student-athletes preparing for professional athletic careers have a business or property interest in their NCAA eligibility?
23A718 Coronavirus Reporter, et al. v. Apple, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-02 Presumed Complete antitrust market-definition monopoly sherman-act software-distribution tying-arrangement Whether Apple's digital software distribution practices on the iPhone constitute an unlawful tying arrangement in violation of antitrust law
23-814 Visa Inc., et al. v. National ATM Council, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-29 Denied Amici (1) antitrust antitrust-impact civil-procedure class-action class-certification classwide-impact federal-rule-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure material-dispute merits merits-determination Whether a district court validly certifies a class under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3)
23-712 Stephen Ireland v. Bend Neurological Associates, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights group-boycott market-competition patient-welfare restraint-of-trade sherman-act summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision, by failing properly to acknowledge the evidence Ireland presented, has so far departed from the proper applicati…
23A533 Visa Inc., et al. v. National ATM Council, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete antitrust class-certification damages predominance rule-23 sherman-act Whether a class action can be certified under Rule 23(b)(3) when plaintiffs' proposed method of proving classwide injury is merely 'colorable' or 'rea…
23-562 McDonald's USA, LLC, et al. v. Leinani Deslandes, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law cross-market-effects horizontal-component horizontal-restraints intrabrand-restraint market-competition per-se-rule rule-of-reason sherman-act Whether intrabrand-hiring-restraints-are-presumptively-subject-to-per-se-Sherman-Act-analysis
23A427 Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete administrative-enforcement antitrust appellate-review ftc-act medical-practice statutory-authority Whether the Federal Trade Commission's administrative enforcement action against a medical practice for alleged anticompetitive conduct exceeds its st…
23-366 Micah Uetricht, et al. v. Chicago Parking Meters, LLC Seventh Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response Waived active-supervision antitrust antitrust-law damages monopoly monopoly-restriction municipal-contract parker-doctrine parker-v-brown sherman-act state-action-doctrine state-action-exemption Does the City of Chicago 'actively supervise' a private monopoly like CPM's when CPM can only restrict the City's interference with its monopoly by re…
23-283 Tri-City ValleyCats, Inc., et al. v. The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball Second Circuit 2023-09-22 Dismissed Amici (8) antitrust antitrust-immunity baseball baseball-exemption common-law flood-v-kuhn market-competition professional-sports sherman-act stare-decisis Whether this Court should overrule Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 (1972), and its predecessors and revoke the century-old, common-law antitrust immunity …
23-5430 Demitri Brown, aka Timothy D. Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-precedent stare-decisis vertical-restraints Does the Bb Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it refuses to honor the Supreme Court's Conception ruling overruling its Leegin decisio…
23-120 United States Soccer Federation, Inc. v. Relevent Sports, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-pleading membership-association pleading sherman-act trade-restraint Whether allegations that members of an association agreed to adhere to the association's rules, without more, are sufficient to plead the element of c…
23-33 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. California 2023-07-11 Denied antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights constitutional constitutional-law corporate-influence familial-status housing-discrimination political-influence standing Should the U.S. Constitution and federal/state civil-rights, housing, antitrust laws trump the defendants' political-financial influence in dodging li…
22-977 Jenny Bruns, et vir v. USAA, et al. District of Columbia 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4) all-writs-act antitrust civil-rights co-conspirators due-process longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Question not identified
22-7044 In Re Jordan Powell 2023-03-21 Denied IFP administrative-law antitrust disaster-loan due-process economic-injury eidl loan-calculation patent sba sba-authority Whether the SBA had authority to apply an earlier loan calculation methodology to a longstanding increase request
22-6841 Bharani Padmanabhan v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine Massachusetts 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights due-process economic-freedom free-enterprise licensing-board market-participants sovereign-immunity Does Massachusetts' grant of blanket sovereign immunity to the medical licensing board violate the Nation's free enterprise structure and the right of…
22-642 General Motors, LLC, et al. v. FCA US, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-conspiracy labor-law labor-union merger-scheme proximate-cause racketeering rico rico-act Whether the direct and intended victim of a racketeering scheme who suffers injury by reason of the scheme is precluded from establishing proximate ca…
22-628 Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC v. Mylan, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law distribution-channels exclusive-dealing market-competition market-foreclosure monopolization monopoly-power section-2 sherman-act When a monopolist's exclusionary conduct would foreclose equally (or potentially equally) efficient rivals from accessing significant channels of dist…
22-444 Nazir Khan v. Presence Chicago Hospitals Network, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment antitrust antitrust-claim civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-privileges physician-privileges standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the hospital can terminate the physician's privileges
22-5928 David L. Hildebrand v. Wilmar Corporation Tenth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust business-dealings contract-law contractual-law due-process patent-expiration patent-law royalties royalty-agreement settlement-intent standing Is it illegal to agree to continue to pay royalties or fees of any kind to an inventor following the expiration of his patent?
22-327 Confederación Hípica de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. v. Confederación de Jinetes Puertorriqueños, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law concerted-action employer-employee-relationship employment employment-relationship independent-contractors labor-dispute labor-exemption statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory labor exemption from the antitrust laws encompasses concerted action by independent contractors
22-289 The National Association of Realtors, et al. v. The PLS.com, LLC Ninth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust antitrust-market illinois-brick indirect-network-effects indirect-purchaser-rule multiple-listing-services ohio-v-american-express relevant-market standing-to-sue two-sided-platform Whether courts must analyze both sides of a two-sided platform with indirect network effects in defining the relevant antitrust market, as required by…
21-1382 Audubon Imports, LLC, dba Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge, et al. v. Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW AG), et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response Waived antitrust civil-procedure conspiracy conspiracy-inference district-court lawful-conduct plausibility-standard pleading pleading-burden sherman-act whether-plaintiffs-have-met-their-burden-to-plead-a-plausible-claim-under-§-1-of-the-sherman-act
21-1283 Animal Science Products, Inc., et al. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law federal-rule-44.1 foreign-conduct foreign-law judicial-interpretation prescriptive-comity sherman-act statutory-interpretation Whether U.S. courts may reinterpret the Sherman Act using a discretionary ten-factor balancing test under the doctrine of prescriptive comity
21-1187 Sumotext Corp. v. Zoove, Inc., dba StarStar Mobile, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law cross-elasticity-of-demand economic-substitutes expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-702 ninth-circuit-standard relevant-market rule-of-reason sherman-act Whether the Ninth Circuit applies an unduly lax standard for showing whether other suitable economic substitutes are available for the products at iss…
21-6953 Jaime Luevano v. Hillary R. Clinton, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing Whether the Sham Commercial Lease Exception to the Noerr-Pennington doctrine applies to the facts of this case
21-852 Christopher D. Lischewski v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust constitutional-principle criminal-antitrust criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial per-se-rule reasonable-doubt separation-of-powers sherman-act Whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional principle that every element of an offense must be su…
21-722 Melvin Salveson, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response Waived american-express antitrust antitrust-law consumer-rights direct-purchaser illinois-brick price-fixing transaction-fee transaction-fees two-sided-platform two-sided-platforms Whether a consumer in a two-sided transaction platform is a direct purchaser of transactions, where the platform operator takes the transaction fee di…
21-406 Impax Laboratories, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission Fifth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Amici (1) antitrust antitrust-law competition-law patent patent-infringement patent-litigation patent-settlement patent-strength patent-validity reverse-payment Whether the presence of a reverse-payment that exceeds a patentee's saved-litigation-costs and the value-of-services-provided by a patent-challenger s…
21-156 American Contractors Supply, LLC v. HD Supply Construction Supply, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial material-fact summary-judgment Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 permit the court to weigh competing evidence of a material fact from the moving party to grant summary judgmen…
20-1350 Go New York Tours, Inc. v. Gray Line New York Tours, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived anticompetitive-conduct antitrust antitrust-conspiracy circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure parallel-conduct pleading-standards plus-factors section-1 sherman-act twombly Whether a plaintiff must allege evidence of 'plus factors' in addition to parallel anticompetitive conduct to plead an antitrust conspiracy under Sect…
20-1293 AbbVie Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Third Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Amici (3) antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure due-process litigation-exception noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-immunity objective-baselessness sham-litigation standing subjective-element Whether the subjective element of the 'sham litigation' exception to Noerr-Pennington immunity may be met by an inference from a finding that a challe…
20-7014 Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure privileges racketeering Whether the district court and appellate court erred in denying the appellant's due process, confrontation, examination, privileges, and protections i…
20-1007 Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. Ohio 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-law-enforcement federal-laws state-court-procedure whistleblower whistleblower-protection Are the Courts of the State of Ohio obligated to enforce Federal Laws?
20-969 Freedom Watch, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6) 1st-amendment antitrust appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech human-rights-act political-discrimination sherman-act standing Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit err by failing to find that the District of Columbia Human Rights Act's prohibition on political di…
20-594 Richard S. Berry v. State Bar of Arizona Arizona 2020-11-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust civil-rights commercial-speech constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-regulation professional-services standing state-bar-regulation unauthorized-practice-of-law Is a court rule defining and prohibiting the unauthorized practice of law an unconstitutional abridgment of commercial speech?
20-520 American Athletic Conference, et al. v. Shawne Alston, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Judgment Issued Amici (1) antitrust joint-venture ncaa rule-of-reason sherman-act student-athlete student-athletes Whether the Sherman Act authorizes a court to subject the product-defining rules of a joint venture to full Rule of Reason review, and to hold those r…
20-512 National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Shawne Alston, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-19 Judgment Issued Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law board-of-regents circuit-conflict compensation federal-antitrust ncaa ncaa-rules ninth-circuit rule-of-reason student-athlete-compensation student-athletes Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously held, in conflict with decisions of other circuits and general antitrust principles, that the National Collegiat…
20-319 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. Viamedia, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) anticompetitive-conduct antitrust business-justification circuit-conflict circuit-split refusal-to-deal sherman-act trinko Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a refusal-to-deal claim under § 2 of the Sherman Act may proceed despite the presence of valid busin…
20-149 Cheryl D. Uzamere v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied antitrust civil-rights court-corruption due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech genocide hobbs-act new-york-state-law Whether New York State Law S2942—A is unconstitutional
20-5331 Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure anti-SLAPP antitrust civil-rights confrontation confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection retaliation Whether District and Appellant Courts can deny a citizen's 14th Amendment guarantees of due process, confrontation, and equal protection in a 15 U.S.C…
20-63 Samuel Pierce v. Yale University, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-23 Denied Response Waived admissions-process antitrust bakke constitutional-law grutter higher-education medical-school sherman-act student-admissions Whether this Court should overrule its holdings in Bakke and Grutter that admission of students to professional schools is constitutionally protected …
19-1284 Malwarebytes, Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-05-13 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (2) anticompetitive-animus antitrust blocking civil-liability civil-rights communications-decency-act computer-service-providers filtering free-speech immunity section-230 Whether federal courts can derive an implied exception to Section 230(c)(2)(B) immunity for blocking or filtering decisions when they are alleged to b…
19-1269 TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Amici (5) antitrust equitable-relief frand frand-commitment jury-trial patent patent-infringement patent-licensing seventh-amendment specific-performance standard-essential-patents standard-setting-organizations Whether a patent owner required to license its standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms has a Seventh Amendment ri…
19-8075 S. Patrick Mendel v. UBER Technologies, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust federal-authority-transportation federal-preemption interstate-commerce intrastate-rates intrastate-routes intrastate-services passenger-transportation public-safety regulatory-conflict transportation-network-companies Whether private contracts, with the aid of the States, designed to defeat federal transportation and antitrust laws should be enjoined
19-710 Connecticut Fine Wine and Spirits, LLC, dba Total Wine & More v. Michelle H. Seagull, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Amici (1) antitrust antitrust-law commerce-clause market-competition preemption price-fixing sherman-act state-action-doctrine state-regulation wholesale-pricing Whether Section 1 of the Sherman Act preempts state laws facilitating such unsupervised private price-fixing
19-533 River Birch, Incorporated, et al. v. Waste Management of Louisiana, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response Waived antitrust burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure civil-rico evidence evidentiary-inference federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure matsushita-standard precedent rule-56 summary-judgment Whether the holding in Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp. that 'ambiguous' circumstantial evidence does not support an inferen…
19-6326 Michael K. Verble v. City of San Diego, California Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights computer-software constitutional-rights copyright discretionary-process due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection patent patent-infringement standing state-review takings trade-secret volunteer-firefighter Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-505 William Rupert v. Susan Bond, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived antitrust circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process frcp-12b6 judicial-expediency noerr-pennington personal-jurisdiction rico rico-statute sham-litigation standing Should the circuit splits over the use of FRCP-12(b)(6)-motions,to-rule-upon-a-disputed-issue-of-fact-(the-sham-litigation-or-fraud-exception-to-claim…
19-5999 Natasha Delima v. YouTube, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust censorship civil-procedure civil-rights digital-property due-process first-amendment platform-censorship retaliation standing virtual-property website-regulation Why did the judge issue a 'Motion for Leave' on all of the Petitioners pleadings? Why did the judge not issue a default ruling for the Respondents tha…
19-349 Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law competition-harm duty-to-deal jury-instructions market-output monopolist monopoly monopoly-liability refusal-to-deal sherman-act short-term-sacrifice single-firm-output Whether a jury verdict finding a defendant liable under Section 2 of the Sherman Act for refusing to deal or cooperate with a competitor may be upheld…
19-322 The Medical Center at Elizabeth Place, LLC v. Atrium Health System, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-jurisprudence antitrust-law competitive-restraint competitive-restraints joint-venture joint-ventures per-se-rule per-se-violation procompetitive-rationale rule-of-reason sherman-act sherman-act-1 summary-judgment When assessing the legality of competitive restraints imposed by joint ventures
19-290 Jay Nolan Renobato v. Bureau of the Fiscal Service Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law authority-under-section-636-rule-72 bill-of-rights-excessive-government-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitution-application-judicial-proceedings-prop constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction government-power judicial-procedure judicial-transgressions-conflicts-miscarriages rule-12b1-subject-matter-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treasury-regulations Whether Acts of Congress and the Constitution require their corrected application to judicial proceedings, property ownership, and interstate commerce…
19-288 Javier Sanchez, Gregory Casorso, and Michael Marr v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions per-se-rule presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment Whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional prohibition against instructing juries that certain f…
19-5237 Felix Lyle Cowan v. Eli Lilly, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied IFP antitrust bad-faith civil-procedure class-action patent settlement antitrust appellate-jurisdiction bad-faith civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-standing patent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging bad faith conduct by the respondents in a patent settlement agreement
19-5033 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP antitrust antitrust-violation bias civil-procedure-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel constitutional-challenge corporate-infringement due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge patent patent-rights rico standing Whether due process requires jurisdiction must be proven when challenged, when none existed to begin with
18-8613 Quincy Magee v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. District of Columbia 2019-03-28 Denied IFP antitrust business-disputes civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement copyright-protection corporate-infringement due-process employment-rights fraud intellectual-property licensing patent patent-infringement patent-ownership standing trade-secret Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging copyright infringement, patent infringement, and fraud
18-8517 Roderick Jermaine Hall v. Sprint Corporation Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied IFP antitrust civil-rights consumer-protection contract-disclosure contract-law disability-rights disclosure-requirements due-process false-advertising federal-regulations network-management service-limitations telecommunications telecommunications-law Whether Sprint failed to disclose information about network management practices for its Unlimited Freedom Plan and Apple iPhone 7 Plus
18-1229 In Re Carolyn Fjord, et al. 2019-03-21 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment antitrust antitrust-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-court beacon-theaters civil-procedure civil-rights clayton-act due-process jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment Does the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York denying Petitioners the right to a jury trial for damage…
18-8383 Jeremy C. Southgate v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust antitrust-conspiracy business-damage civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy court-procedure inherent-authority legal-representation racketeering standing trademark trademark-property Is there arguable merit to the claim that Respondents engaged in an unlawful antitrust-conspiracy, racketeering-conspiracy, trademark-property, busine…
18-1170 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) antitrust antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud regional-circuits sherman-act subject-matter-jurisdiction walker-process Appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process antitrust claims involving patent fraud lies in the regional circuits, not the Federal Circuit
18-8085 Steven Clayton Thomason v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-trust antitrust beacon-theatres beacon-theatres-inc.-v.-westover civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process jury-trial restraint-of-trade rooker-feldman standing whether-the-right-to-a-jury-trial-wherein-anti-trust-issues-are-before-the-court-in-a-restraint-of-trade-conflict-with-u.s.-supreme-court-holding-in-b…
18-912 AmeriCare MedServices, Inc. v. City of Anaheim, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response Waived active-supervision antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure commercial-market-participant commercial-participant federal-antitrust-law market-competition municipal-services preemption regulatory-capacity state-action-doctrine state-action-immunity Is a municipality that is not authorized by state law exempt from federal antitrust liability in the ambulance services market?
18-880 SureShot Golf Ventures, Inc. v. Topgolf International, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied antitrust antitrust-claims article-iii article-iii-ripeness civil-procedure competitor-rights essential-technology market-foreclosure monopolist monopoly patent patent-technology ripeness-doctrine standing Whether the Article III ripeness doctrine bars a competitor's antitrust claims against a monopolist who acquired essential and patented technology to …
18-802 James DeHoog, et al. v. Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied antitrust antitrust-law brown-shoe brown-shoe-v-united-states clayton-act clayton-act-section-7 market-concentration market-share merger-analysis potential-competition supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-el-paso united-states-v-el-paso-natural-gas united-states-v-penn-olin-chemical Whether the Court should reaffirm its commitment to the structural evaluation of mergers and acquisitions under § 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act
18-774 Anderson News, L.L.C., et al. v. American Media, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied antitrust antitrust-law boycott horizontal-agreement horizontal-boycott market-power per-se-rule price-increase sherman-act Whether a horizontal agreement to boycott a supplier can escape per se condemnation under Section 1 of the Sherman Act
18-603 Martin Siegel, et al. v. Delta Air Lines, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response Waived antitrust conspiratorial-agreements earnings-calls horizontal-price-fixing investor-earnings-calls invitations-to-collude liability-exception price-fixing public-earnings-calls sherman-act sherman-antitrust-act Whether there is an exception to liability under the price-fixing provision of the Sherman Antitrust Act for conspiratorial price-fixing agreements re…
18-475 Zaremba Family Farms, Inc., et al. v. Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Relisted (2) anticompetitive-agreement antitrust antitrust-injury civil-procedure civil-rights due-process injury-in-fact market-allocation oil-and-gas oil-and-gas-rights private-cause-of-action standing takings valuation Whether proof of the fact of damage—a significant drop in the value of a plaintiff's oil and gas interests—because of an illegal, anticompetitive agre…
18-55 Digital Ally, Inc. v. Taser International, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law commercial-bribery government-procurement governmental-purchases noerr-pennington-doctrine robinson-patman-act sherman-act Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine immunizes commercial bribery from liability under the Robinson-Patman Act
18-32 Philadelphia Taxi Association, Inc., et al. v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived anti-competitive anti-competitive-behavior antitrust antitrust-law clayton-act competition economic-harm illegal-activity market-competition market-power marketplace-presence monopolization predatory predatory-conduct predatory-pricing sherman-act unfair-competition When is an illegal presence in the marketplace predatory, anti-competitive and threatens to harm competition and not solely competitors?