Active Disposal, Inc. v. City of Darien

MANION, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs sued several municipalities claiming the municipalities’ exclusive contracts for trash disposal violate federal antitrust law. The district court held that the contracts fell within the state-action exception to antitrust law and dismissed the complaint. The state-action doctrine allows municipalities to engage in conduct that would otherwise violate antitrust law when the conduct is authorized by the state under a policy to displace competition. Plaintiffs appeal. Because the state-action doctrine applies to the municipalities’ contracts for trash disposal,…