Legal Opinion
Town of Concord, Massachusetts v. Boston Edison Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 21, 1990No. 89-1872PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Chief Judge.
The chief question raised by this appeal is whether a pricing practice known as a price squeeze violates the antitrust laws when it takes place in a fully regulated industry.
To understand the nature of a price squeeze the reader must keep three basic facts in mind. First, a firm can engage in a price squeeze only if it operates at two levels of an industry, and only if its competitors at one level are also its customers. Alcoa, the defendant in a famous antitrust case, provides an example of such a firm. See United States v. Aluminum Co., 148 F.2d 416 (2d Cir.1945)…
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