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25-521 Google LLC, et al. v. Epic Games, Inc., a Maryland Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-10-29 Pending Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse Waived antitrust-law article-iii-standing injunctive-relief market-competition procompetitive-conduct rule-of-reason Whether under the Rule of Reason, an antitrust plaintiff must prove less restrictive alternatives could accomplish procompetitive benefits of challeng…
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 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust-law baseball-exemption federal-baseball flood-case sports-litigation toolson-precedent 1. Should the Court discard the baseball exemption by overruling Federal Baseball, Toolson, and Flood? 2. If the Court does not overrule Federal Baseb…
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 Whether the rule of reason properly governs tying claims under Section 1 of the Sherman Act for technologically integrated software products
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 Whether, absent evidence of a marketwide price increase or output reduction, a reduction in competition between two members to a joint venture is suff…
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 Whether American oil companies can enter into price-fixing agreements with Russian and Saudi Arabian oil companies without Congressional sanction in v…
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 Whether the statutory labor exemption provides blanket antitrust immunity to unions through Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal when the union's justification is …
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 Is the criminal provision of Section 1 of the Sherman Act Constitutional?
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 Whether a federal court sitting in equity may order a defendant to disgorge profits realized exclusively by corporate codefendants when the defendant …
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…
23-1063 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 Whether a state licensing board composed of active market participants can claim antitrust immunity without meeting the active supervision requirement…
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
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…
23-337 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 Must a less-restrictive alternative be free from additional costs to the defendant?
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 Whether the Parker state-action immunity doctrine, as refined by Midcal Aluminum, extends to a private equity firm's 75-year monopoly control of a mun…
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…
22-1230 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 Whether the lower Courts may specifically decline to follow the decisions by this Court in deciding whether the acquisition of American Airlines by US…
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…
22-628 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 antitrust laws encompasses concerted action by independent contractors
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…
21-722 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…
20-1293 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…
20-643 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 Whether an agreement between horizontal competitors not to compete for certain customers is a per se violation of the Sherman Act, separate from the p…
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 Whether the Ninth Circuit continues to violate the Dental Examiners ruling, the Sherman Act, and Kinney's First Amendment and Due Process rights
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 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
19-288 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…
19-290 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…
19-58 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 Whether a unilateral refusal to deal in a commercial contract can constitute an antitrust violation without proving the defendant's actions were objec…
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…
18-1170 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
18-912 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?
18-802 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
18-55 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?