Legal Opinion
Starr v. Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 13, 2010No. Docket 08-5637-cvPublishedCited by 288 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:
This case calls upon us to determine whether an antitrust complaint alleging a conspiracy by major record labels to fix the prices and terms under which their music would be sold over the Internet states a claim for violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act under Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 127 S.Ct. 1955, 167 L.Ed.2d 929 (2007). We hold that Plaintiffs-Appellants’ Second Consolidated Amended Complaint (“SCAC”) contains “enough factual matter (taken as true) to suggest that an agreement was made,” id. at 555, 127 S.Ct. 1955, and therefore states a…
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