Legal Opinion
Kleen Prods. LLC v. Georgia-Pacific LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 7, 2018No. 17-2808PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, Chief Judge.
*931Oligopolies have always posed problems for conventional antitrust law: without something that can be called an agreement, they elude scrutiny under section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, and yet no individual firm has enough market power to be subject to Sherman Act section 2, 15 U.S.C. § 2. Tacit collusion is easy in those markets, see In re Text Messaging Antitrust Litigation , 782 F.3d 867 (7th Cir. 2015), and firms have little incentive to compete on the basis of price, "preferring to share the profits [rather] than to fight with each other." Joe Sanfelippo Cabs,…
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