Times Herald Printing Co. v. A.H. Belo Corp.

OPINION

CANNON, Justice.

The principal question posed by this appeal is whether anticompetitive conduct of a defendant who attempts to achieve monopoly power in a relevant market may be redeemed by a legitimate business purpose. When that conduct involves a nonprice vertical restraint, the answer is no. Rather, the proper approach is to apply a “rule of reason” standard, allowing the trier of facts to weigh all of the evidence to determine whether the legitimate business justifications of a defendant’s conduct outweigh its threat to competition or whether the conduct unreasonably restrained…