Antitrust cases
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Antitrust cases, including those under Section 2 of the Sherman Act and on standing and subject matter jurisdiction, entail the following 78 cases (15 by the Supreme Court, 27 by the Fifth Circuit, 18 by district or state courts in Texas, and 7 by other Circuits):
Standing
- Alamo Forensic Servs. v. Bexar Cty., 2020 WL 2559956 (W.D. Tex. May 19, 2020) (lack of standing case similar to Duran decision below)
- Assân of Am. Physicians & Surgeons, Inc. v. Schiff, 23 F.4th 1028 (D.C. Cir. 2022)
- Clapper v. Amnesty Int'l USA, 568 U.S. 398 (2013) (a landmark 5-4 decision against standing)
- Duran v. City of Corpus Christi, 240 F. Appâx 639 (5th Cir. 2007) (lack of standing to assert a First Amendment retaliation claim on behalf of someone else)*Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555 (1992) (the landmark decision by Justice Scalia denying standing in an Endangered Species Act case)
- Ward v. Santa Fe Indep. Sch. Dist., 393 F.3d 599 (5th Cir. 2004) (establishing that âprudential limitations on standingâ require that âa litigant ... must assert his or her own legal rights and interests and cannot rest a claim to relief on the legal rights or interest of third partiesâ)
- Warth v. Seldin, 422 U.S. 490 (1975) (standing cannot be based on the interests of others)
First Amendment
- Doe v. Steward Health Care Sys., LLC, 2018 WL 4233816 (S.D. Tex. July 31, 2018)
- Hondros v. Hewlett Packard Enter., 2021 WL 5087144 (S.D. Tex. Nov. 2, 2021) (âno allegations of state action as needed to plead a constitutional violationâ)
- Hudgens v. NLRB, 424 U.S. 507 (1976) (âIt is, of course, a commonplace that the constitutional guarantee of free speech is a guarantee only against abridgment by government, federal or state.â)
- Manhattan Cmty. Access Corp. v. Halleck, 139 S. Ct. 1921 (2019) (The First Amendment âprohibits only governmental abridgement of speechâ and âdoes not prohibit [the] private abridgement of speech.â)
- Richard v. Hoechst Celanese Chem. Group, 355 F.3d 345 (5th Cir. 2003) (the test for when private conduct can be considered state action)
- Story v. Best Way Transp., 2020 WL 5045658 (N.D. Tex. Aug. 4, 2020) (dismissing a constitutional cause of action because the ânamed defendants are private actorsâ and the plaintiff âdid not allege that they are state actors or are affiliated with the stateâ)
Antitrust
- Abraham & Veneklasen Joint Venture v. Am. Quarter Horse Assân, 776 F.3d 321 (5th Cir. 2015) (â[E]ssential attributes of illegal monopoly power are judged by the monopolistâs participation in the relevant market.â)
- Adams v. Am. Bar Assoc., 400 F. Supp. 219 (E.D. Pa. 1975) (âThe antitrust laws ... do not reach conduct which the plaintiffs perceive as a monopoly of free trade in ideas.â)
- Brunswick Corp. v. Pueblo Bowl-OMat, 429 U.S. 477 (1977) (limiting âantitrust injuryâ to an âinjury of the type the antitrust laws were intended to prevent and that flows from that which makes defendantâs acts unlawfulâ)
- Clean Water Opportunities, Inc. v. Willamette Valley Co., 759 F. Appâx 244 (5th Cir. 2019) (test for Section 2 of the Sherman Act: â(1) possesses monopoly power in the relevant market and (2) acquired or maintained that power willfully, as distinguished from the power having arisen and continued by growth produced by the development of a superior product, business acumen, or historic accident,â and the second test requires "a showing of exclusionary conductâ)
Other
- Afzal v. Am. Bd. of Internal Med., 2022 WL 2447115 (3d Cir. July 6, 2022)
- Allyn v. Am. Bd. of Med. Specialties, Inc., 2019 WL 297459 (M.D. Fla. Jan. 3, 2019)
- Allyn v. Am. Bd. of Med. Specialties, Inc., 2019 WL 293277 (M.D. Fla. Jan. 23, 2019)
- Am. Bd. of Internal Med. v. Salas-Rushford, 2021 WL 214268 (D.P.R. Jan. 20, 2021)
- Am. Bd. of Internal Med. v. Von Muller, 2011 WL 857337 (E.D. Pa. March 10, 2011)
- Anago, Inc. v. Tecnol Med. Prods., 976 F.2d 248 (5th Cir. 1992)
- Apani Sw., Inc. v. Coca-Cola Enters., 300 F.3d 620 (5th Cir. 2002)
- Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009)
- Assân of Am. Physicians & Surgeons, Inc. v. Am. Bd. of Med. Specialties, 15 F.4th 831 (7th Cir. 2021)
- Assân of Am. Physicians & Surgeons, Inc. v. Am. Bd. of Med. Specialties, 2020 WL 5642941 (N.D. Ill. Sep. 22, 2020)
- Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007)
- Bell v. Bk. of Am. Home Loan Svc., L.P., 2012 WL 568755 (S.D. Tex. Feb. 21, 2012) (declaratory judgment action needs viable underlying claim)
- Chair King, Inc. v. Houston Cellular Corp., 131 F.3d 507 (5th Cir. 1997), abrogated on other grounds, Mims v. Arrow Fin. Servs., LLC, 565 U.S. 368 (2012)
- Coinmach Corp v. Aspenwood Apartment Corp., 417 S.W.3d 909 (Tex. 2013)
- Collin Cty. v. Homeowners Assân for Values Essential to Neighborhoods, 915 F.2d 167 (5th Cir. 1990) (declaratory judgment action needs viable underlying claim)
- Cox Operating L.L.C. v. Wells Fargo Bk., N.A., 2020 WL 13228364 (S.D. Tex. June 16, 2020)
- DataCell ehf v. Visa, 2015 WL 4624714 (E.D. Va. July 30, 2015) (Wikileaks related case; âCongress created antitrust laws to protect free market competition, not to protect the free exchange of ideas.â)
- Doctorâs Hosp. of Jefferson, Inc. v. Se. Med. All., Inc., 123 F.3d 301 (5th Cir. 1997)
- Estates of Coley v. Hillenbrand Indus., 2007 WL 9761346 (S.D. Tex. Aug. 27, 2007)
- Ginzburg v. Memâl Healthcare Sys., 993 F. Supp. 998 (S.D. Tex. 1997)
- Glass v. Paxton, 900 F.3d 233 (5th Cir. 2018) (professor lacked standing to challenge pro-Second Amendment law for students)
- Goussis v. Kimball, 813 F. Supp. 352 (E.D. Pa. 1993)
- Greater Hous. Transp. Co. v. Uber Techs., Inc., 2015 WL 1034254 (S.D. Tex. Mar. 10, 2015)
- Jallali v. Natâl Bd. of Osteopathic Med. Examiners, Inc., 2012 WL 3151553 (S.D. Fla. Aug. 2, 2012)
- John Paul Mitchell Sys. v. Randalls Food Mkts., 17 S.W.3d 721 (Tex. App. 2000)
- Johnson v. Commân on Presidential Debates, 869 F.3d 976 (D.C. Cir. 2017) (antitrust laws are economic, and do not reach marketplace of ideas)
- Kenney v. Am. Bd. of Internal Med., 847 F. Appâx 137 (3d Cir. 2021)
- Kenney v. Am. Bd. of Internal Med., 412 F. Supp. 3d 530 (E.D. Pa. 2019)
- La. Div. Sons of Confederate Veterans v. City of Natchitoches, 370 F. Supp. 3d 692 (W.D. La. 2019)
- Mattei v. Intâl Conf. of Funeral Serv. Examining Bds., 2015 WL 5125799 (W.D. Tex. Sept. 1, 2015)
- McCormack v. Nat'l Collegiate Athletic Assoc., 845 F.2d 1338 (5th Cir. 1988)
- McMahon v. Fenves, 946 F.3d 266 (5th Cir. 2020) (denying standing to assert First Amendment infringement on others, and denying objection to a university's relocation of monuments of the Confederacy)
- Morris v. Dillard Depât Stores, Inc., 277 F.3d 743 (5th Cir. 2001)
- Munsif v. Cassel, 331 F. Appâx 954 (3d Cir. 2009)
- Nelson v. Cauley, 2005 WL 415144 (N.D. Tex. Feb. 22, 2005)
- Norris v. Hearst Tr., 500 F.3d 454 (5th Cir. 2007)
- Oxford Glob. Res., Inc. v. Weekley-Cessnun, 2004 WL 2599898 (N.D. Tex. Nov. 12, 2004)
- Parker & Parsley Petrol. Co. v. Dresser Indus., 972 F.2d 580 (5th Cir. 1992)
- Pikaluk v. Horseshoe Entmât L.P., 810 F. Appâx 243 (5th Cir. 2020)
- In re Pool Prods. Distribution Mkt. Antitrust Litig., 940 F. Supp. 2d 367 (E.D. La. 2013) (âHigher prices to purchasers and lower output are exactly the types of harm that the antitrust laws are meant to prevent.â)
- Priester v. Lowndes County, 354 F.3d 414 (5th Cir. 2004)
- PSKS, Inc. v. Leegin Creative Leather Prods., Inc., 615 F.3d 412 (5th Cir. 2010)
- R2 Invs. LDC v. Phillips, 401 F.3d 638 (5th Cir. 2005)
- Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811 (1997)
- Reiter v. Sonotone Corp., 442 U.S. 330 (1979) (declaring that "consumer welfare" is the purpose of antitrust laws, citing Robert Bork's treatise)
- Sammons v. Natâl Commân on Certification of Physician Assistants, Inc., 104 F. Supp. 2d 1379 (N.D. Ga. 2000)
- Sanjuan v. Am. Bd. of Psychiatry & Neurology, 40 F.3d 247 (7th Cir. 1994)
- Southland Sec. Corp. v. INSpire Ins. Sols. Inc., 365 F.3d 353 (5th Cir. 2004)
- Spectrum Sports v. McQuillan, 506 U.S. 447 (1993)
- Stearns Airport Equip. v. FMC, 170 F.3d 518, 522 (5th Cir. 1999) ("Exclusionary conduct under section 2 [of the Sherman Act] is the creation or maintenance of monopoly by means other than the competition on the merits embodied in the Grinnell standard.")
- Stewart Glass & Mirror, Inc. v. U.S.A. Glass, Inc., 940 F. Supp. 1026 (E.D. Tex. 1996)
- Suarez v. iHeartMedia + Entmât, Inc., (W.D. Tex. Jan. 22, 2019)
- Surgical Care Ctr. of Hammond, L.C. v. Hosp. Serv., 309 F.3d 836 (5th Cir. 2002)
- Taylor Publâg Co. v. Jostens Inc., 216 F.3d 465 (5th Cir. 2000) (an antitrust decision defining exclusionary conduct as something âinconsistent with competition on the meritsâ which has a âpotential for making a significant contribution to monopoly powerâ)
- Texas Beef Cattle Co. v. Green, 921 S.W.2d 203 (Tex. 1996)
- Transource Intâl, Inc. v. Trinity Indus., Inc., 725 F.2d 274 (5th Cir. 1984)
- U.S. v. Hays, 515 U.S. 737 (1995) (standing is a threshold jurisdictional question)
- Waggoner v. Denbury Onshore, L.L.C., 612 F. Appâx 734 (5th Cir. 2015)
- Wal-Mart Stores v. Sturges, 52 S.W.3d 711 (Tex. 2001) (Texas recognizes tortious interference with existing business relations and tortious interference with prospective business relations)
- Walker Process Equip. v. Food Mach. & Chem. Corp., 382 U.S. 172 (1965)
- Watts v. Northside Indep. Sch. Dist., 37 F. 4th 1094 (5th Cir. 2022)