Legal Opinion
McWane, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 15, 2015No. 14-11363PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
This antitrust case involves allegedly anticompetitive conduct in the ductile iron pipe fittings (“DIPF”) market by McWane, Inc., a family-run company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2009, following the passage of federal legislation that provided a large infusion of money for waterworks projects that required domestic pipe fittings, Star Pipe Products entered the domestic fittings market. In response, McWane, the dominant producer of domestic pipe fittings, announced to its distributors that (with limited exceptions) unless they bought all of their domestic…
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