rule-of-reason
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | In this antitrust case, the court instructed the jury that it could find Google liable for antitrust violations even if no less restrictive alternativ… |
| 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… |
| 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… | |
| 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 … | |
| 23-562 | 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 |
| 23-337 | 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? | |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 19-1098 | National Football League, et al. v. Ninth Inning, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-09 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | antitrust-market competition-harm damages-claim illinois-brick indirect-purchaser joint-venture rule-of-reason sherman-act | Whether an agreement among the members of a joint venture on how best to distribute the venture's jointly created core product may be condemned under … |
| 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 |