Legal Opinion

Anderson News, L.L.C. v. American Media, Inc.

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided August 20, 2015No. 09 Civ. 2227(PAC)Published

1Opinion of the Court

*485 OPINION & ORDER

PAUL A. CROTTY, District Judge:

If there were ever an antitrust case of the pot calling the kettle black, this is it. In mid-January 2009, Anderson News, which had been losing money for years, unilaterally decided to raise its prices and shift its inventory costs to publishers and distributors in the single-copy magazine market. The publishers were' given two weeks to fall in line with Anderson News’ new price and cost regime, “or else.”1 If the publishers and distributors did not acquiesce to the price increase and to transferring inventory expenses by then, Anderson would not…

2Cases cited34 opinions

Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1968
Brunswick Corp. v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
Salahuddin v. GoordCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2006

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