Pacific Bell Telephone Co. V. Linkline Communications, Inc .: The Supreme Court Rejects Price Squeezes as an Antitrust Theory

In linkLine, the question before the Supreme ourt was “whether . . . a price-squeeze claim may be brought under §2 of the Sherman Act when the defendant is under no antitrust obligation to sell the inputsto the plaintiff in the first place.” On February 25, 2009, the Court held “no such claim may be brought.”

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