Legal Opinion
In Re Text Messaging Antitrust Litigation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 29, 2010No. 10-8037PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
A class action suit that has been consolidated for pretrial proceedings in the district court in Chicago charges the defendants with conspiring to fix prices of text messaging services in violation of federal antitrust law. The district court allowed the plaintiffs to file a second amended complaint despite the defendants’ objection, based on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544,127 S.Ct. 1955, 167 L.Ed.2d 929 (2007), that the second complaint like the first failed to state a claim. The defendants asked the district judge to certify, for interlocutory appeal…
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