Legal Opinion
Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. Linkline Communications, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 25, 2009No. 07-512PublishedCited by 376 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Roberts
The plaintiffs in this case, respondents here, allege that a competitor subjected them to a “price squeeze” in violation of §2 of the Sherman Act. They assert that such a claim can arise when a vertically integrated firm sells inputs at wholesale and also sells finished goods or services at retail. If that firm has power in the wholesale market, it can simultaneously raise the wholesale price of inputs and cut the retail price of the finished good. This will have the effect of “squeezing” the profit margins of any competitors in the retail market. Those firms will have to pay more for the…
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