| 25-1130 |
Cherry Grove Beach Gear, LLC, et al. v. City of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-03-26 |
Pending |
|
antitrust-law clear-articulation-test market-participant-exception municipal-monopoly parker-immunity state-action-immunity |
1. Whether the market participant exception to
state action immunity should be adopted under
the facts of this case, specifically where the
municip… |
| 25-1109 |
Richard Gibson, et al. v. Cendyn Group, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-03-23 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
algorithmic-pricing antitrust-law price-fixing rule-of-reason sherman-act-section-1 vertical-agreements |
Whether vertical licensing agreements between a common algorithmic pricing vendor and competing firms are categorically exempt from Section 1's rule-o… |
| 25-1070 |
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, et al. v. Mosaic Health, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2026-03-11 |
Pending |
|
antitrust-law conspiracy Illinois-Brick indirect-purchaser lost-profits trade-association |
Whether Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois, 431 U.S. 720 (1977), which bars antitrust claims by indirect purchasers and sellers, applies to a claim of "lo… |
| 25-521 |
Google LLC, et al. v. Epic Games, Inc., a Maryland Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Dismissed |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
antitrust-law article-iii-standing injunctive-relief market-competition procompetitive-conduct rule-of-reason |
In this antitrust case, the court instructed the jury that it could find Google liable for antitrust violations even if no less restrictive alternativ… |
| 25-416 |
Cangrejeros de Santurce Baseball Club, LLC, et al. v. Liga de Béisbol Professional de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
antitrust-law baseball-exemption federal-baseball flood-case sports-litigation toolson-precedent |
Ordinarily, there would be no question that collusion among ostensible adversaries to expel a competitor from a market would give rise to federal anti… |
| 24-1324 |
SAP SE, et al. v. Teradata Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
antitrust-law per-se-rule rule-of-reason sherman-act software-products tying-arrangement |
1. Whether the rule of reason properly governs tying claims under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1, concerning software products that are tec… |
| 24-938 |
American Airlines Group Inc. v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
anticompetitive-effects antitrust-law joint-venture market-competition procompetitive-effects rule-of-reason |
Section 1 of the Sherman Act prohibits "unreasonable restraint[s] on competition." Leegin Creative Leather Prods, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., 551 U.S. 877, 88… |
| 24-917 |
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, et al. v. NTE Carolinas II, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) |
antitrust-law legal-aggregation market-conduct monopolization section-2 sherman-act |
Whether a plaintiff can prevail on a monopolization claim under Section 2 of the Sherman Act by aggregating multiple distinct, independently lawful ac… |
| 24-800 |
Rosemary D'Augusta, et al. v. American Petroleum Institute, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Denied |
|
act-of-state-doctrine antitrust-law jurisdiction oil-production price-fixing sherman-act |
This is a private antitrust suit brought under Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Antitrust Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 15, 26) for violations of Sections 1 and 2… |
| 24-526 |
Garth Drabinsky v. Actors' Equity Association |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust-law due-process labor-exemption legitimate-interests rule-12b6 union-immunity |
Does the statutory labor exemption—which requires that unions act pursuant to a legitimate self-interest—provide unions with blanket immunity from the… |
| 24-124 |
Brent Brewbaker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness |
1. Section 1 of the Sherman Act criminalizes "[e]very
contract ...in restraint of trade." 15 U.S.C. § 1. This
prohibition cannot be applied literally … |
| 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… |
| 23A930 |
Martin Shkreli v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
antitrust-law equitable-disgorgement intercircuit-conflict profits-liability remedies-scope rule-of-reason |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Did the District Court err in denying leave to amend a first-to-file developer antitrust lawsuit concerning free digital apps, when Petitioner Dr. … |
| 23-1063 |
Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
|
antitrust-law class-action competition-restraint injunctive-relief private-enforcement prospective-waiver settlement-agreement |
Whether settlement agreements may immunize ongoing restraints on competition from private enforcement under the federal antitrust laws by releasing ce… |
| 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… |
| 23A610 |
Randall Bock v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
antitrust-law licensing-board market-participants midcal-test north-carolina-dental state-action-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
"The rule of reason is the accepted standard for testing whether a practice restrains trade in violation" of the Sherman Act. Leegin Creative Leather … |
| 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 |
In 2008, for $1.15 billion, the City of Chicago leased its 36,000 parking meters to a private equity firm, Chicago Parking Meters, LLC ("CPM"). The Ci… |
| 23-337 |
Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
|
anticompetitive-effects antitrust-law circuit-split competition-analysis judicial-review less-restrictive-alternative procompetitive-justification restraint-of-trade rule-of-reason sherman-act |
This case presents two critical questions regarding the legal standards governing the Rule of Reason, which determines the outcome of nearly every She… |
| 23-285 |
Amory Investments LLC, et al. v. Tyson Foods Incorporated, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
|
antitrust-law appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine district-court federal-antitrust-law judicial-procedure private-enforcement public-interest standing |
Does a district court order permitting significant interference with private enforcement of federal antitrust law implicate an interest sufficiently i… |
| 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… |
| 23A108 |
Micah Uetricht, et al. v. Chicago Parking Meters, LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
antitrust-law midcal-aluminum monopoly-pricing parker-v-brown sherman-act state-action-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 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 UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION,
lst-7th-14th AMENDMENTS, U.S. FAIR HOUSING
ACT, U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, FEDERAL TRADE
COMMISSION ACT, UNITED STA… |
| 22-1230 |
Carolyn Fjord, et al. v. American Airlines Group, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
|
antitrust-law antitrust-merger civil-procedure clayton-act competition injunctive-relief judicial-precedent market-competition merger section-7 standing |
This Court's opinion in Brown Shoe, 370 U.S. 294 (1962) and its progeny have since the late 1960's set the quantum of evidence necessary to prove a vi… |
| 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 |
1. Does Massachusetts ' grant of blanket sovereign immunity to the medical licensing
board - knowing that by law it shall not be supervised by the Go… |
| 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… |
| 22-573 |
BRFHH Shreveport LLC, dba University Health Shreveport v. Willis-Knighton Medical Center, dba Willis-Knighton Health System |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
antitrust-law circuit-split motion-to-dismiss plausibility-standard pleading-standards rule-12(b)(6) section-1 sherman-act twombly |
May a Section 1 claim be dismissed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), consistent with Twombly, based on evidence suggesting an alternative, non-con… |
| 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 operation of the antitrust laws, which exempts "labor dispute[s]" that "concern[] terms or conditions o… |
| 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, despite this Court's "well established" interpretation of the Sherman Act, U.S. courts may reinterpret the same text of that Act case by case… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit applies an unduly lax standard for showing whether other suitable economic substitutes are available for the products at … |
| 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 |
Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois , 431 U.S. 720 (1977)
holds that plaintiffs who directly purchase products
from an antitrust violator may sue to recove… |
| 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 |
Because settlement agreements that permit a "generic manufacturer to enter [a] patentee's market prior to the patent's expiration" increase competitio… |
| 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… |
| 20-1293 |
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 |
On District Court acceptance of appellant's $505 filing fee can 9th Circuit Order appeal CLOSED forgetting intake and review of compulsory briefs?I,
… |
| 20-643 |
D&G, Inc., dba Gary's Foods, et al. v. C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust-law bid-rigging customer-allocation horizontal-competitors market-allocation per-se-violation price-fixing sherman-act territorial-allocation |
The Sherman Act treats certain agreements
among competitors as illegal per se, without regard to
any claimed pro-competitive benefits of the arrangeme… |
| 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… |
| 20-115 |
Charles G. Kinney v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust-law civil-rights due-process first-amendment standing state-bar-regulation |
30+ states have mandatory or integrated state bar associations who mostly use temporarily-inactive attorneys serving as "judges" to impose discipline … |
| 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. |
| 19-349 |
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 |
Plaintiffs Trendsettah USA, Inc. and Trendsettah Inc. (together, "TSI") entered into contracts with Swisher International, Inc., under which Swisher w… |
| 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, this Court's antitrust
jurisprudence recognizes that overly lax enfor… |
| 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 |
1. Legal Issues. Whether Acts of Congress and the Constitution require their corrected application to judicial proceedings, property ownership, and in… |
| 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 |
The question presented is whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional prohibition —grounded in th… |
| 19-58 |
Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
|
antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process |
Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit? |
| 18A1364 |
Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
antitrust-law jury-instructions market-competition monopoly-power refusal-to-deal sherman-act |
Question not identified. |
| 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
dama… |
| 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 |
Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit? |
| 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 |
1. A state statute governing ambulance services allows one type of competition displacement. Is a municipality that is not authorized by that statute … |
| 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 |
1. In the over forty-years since this Court has issued a decision interpreting § 7 of the Clayton Act, a trend in unprecedented concentration has grip… |
| 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 based on the assertion that the… |
| 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 |
In a case of first impression, the District Court held that since the sales in question were to "governmental" purchasers, Noerr-Pennington immunized … |
| 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 |
1. When is an illegal presence in the marketplace predatory, anti-competitive and threatens to harm competition and not solely competitors?
2. Does t… |