Legal Opinion
SolarCity Corp. v. Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement & Power District
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 12, 2017No. 15-17302PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judge:
Solar-panel supplier SolarCity Corporation filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (the Power District), alleging that the Power District had attempted to entrench its monopoly by setting prices that disfavored solar-power providers. The Power District moved to dismiss the complaint based on the state-action immunity doctrine. That doctrine insulates states, and in some instances their subdivisions, from federal antitrust liability when they regulate prices in a local industry or otherwise…
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