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25A706 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application antitrust billing-practices corporate-disclosure emergency-medicine health-insurance medical-services Question not identified.
25-667 CoStar Group, Inc., et al. v. Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived antitrust exclusive-dealing ninth-circuit plausible-relief refusal-to-deal sherman-act In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, this Court recognized the risk of allowing antitrust claims to proceed past the pleading stage in the absence of a …
25A663 Amigo Shuttle Inc., et al. v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-05 Application antitrust competition monopoly port-authority sherman-act transportation Question not identified.
25A419 Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete antitrust class-certification damages-class-action expert-evidence federal-rule-civil-procedure predominance Question not identified.
25-326 Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust business-association circuit-split conspiracy optional-rule sherman-act Whether a business association that publishes a rule for its members can immunize the rule, and members' adherence to it, from being considered a cons…
25A35 Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-09 Presumed Complete antitrust enforcement-delegation market-competition no-commingling-rule sherman-act trade-association This document is an application for an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari, not a petition for certiorari itself. The docume…
25-27 Judy A. Brannberg v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. Colorado 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived antitrust charter-school civil-rico due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-55 The questions presented are: Question One: Whether Petitioner is entitled to $2.6 billion in civil RICO default judgment under Rule 55 where Defendan…
24A728 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., et al. v. Skot Heckman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete antitrust class-action consumer-protection due-process settlement ticket-sales Question not identified.
24-5009 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied IFP antitrust antitrust-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process financial-fraud financial-services fraud judicial-oversight jury-trial 1. Does the Founding Father 's documentation of individual rights, such as the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and Constitution, provide…
23-1365 United States v. Brent Brewbaker Fourth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied antitrust antitrust-law bid-rigging horizontal-agreement per-se-rule sherman-act vertical-relationship Whether the existence of a vertical relationship between the competing bidders precluded the application of the established per se rule against horizo…
23-1292 Judy A. Brannberg v. Colorado Civil Rights Division, et al. Colorado 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act antitrust charter-school-regulation constitutional-review domestic-terrorism due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure injunctive-relief school-district-authority whistle-blower The questions presented are: Question One: Whether pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 65; Rules 22 and 23 of this Court; the All Writs …
23-7380 Kenneth Leslie Caldwell v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-rights color-of-law constitution due-process government-accountability government-power legal-remedies standing united-states Is the "United States " a medium employed by the United States of America assigned for the upholding of the United States Constitution to the best of …
23-1191 Dru Choker, et al. v. National Veterinary Associates, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-standing civil-procedure conspiracy damage-relief damages impending-injury monopolistic-behavior monopoly sherman-act standing Whether a party injured by antitrust behavior leading to a monopolistic end has standing for damage relief under the Sherman Act's 15 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2, …
23A965 United States v. Brent Brewbaker Fourth Circuit 2024-04-26 Presumed Complete antitrust bid-rigging horizontal-restraint rule-of-reason sherman-act vertical-relationship Question not identified.
23-1089 Coronavirus Reporter, et al. v. Apple Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure civil-rights digital-distribution due-process free-speech market-definition monopoly-conduct per-se-rule software-tying standing 1. Did the District Court err in denying leave to amend a first-to-file developer antitrust lawsuit concerning free digital apps, when Petitioner Dr. …
23-7054 Robert N. Young v. King Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust attorney-misconduct court-sanctions doj-fraud-recoveries false-claims-act judicial-procedure medicaid-drug-rebates medicaid-fraud qui-tam whistleblower-rights This case shows my dozen relator council's, conspired with defense Councils, and my Judge with assistance of E. Pa. District Court Employees, and DOJ …
23-920 Brian Bowen, II v. Adidas America, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response Waived antitrust civil-rights due-process labor labor-market market-dominance ncaa-eligibility professional-athletics property-interest property-rights student-athlete Do elite student-athletes preparing for professional athletic careers have a business or property interest in their NCAA eligibility?
23A718 Coronavirus Reporter, et al. v. Apple, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-02 Presumed Complete antitrust market-definition monopoly sherman-act software-distribution tying-arrangement Given the Ninth Circuit's overt failure to address the pernicious tying of digital software distribution stores to the iPhone device by Apple Inc., do…
23-814 Visa Inc., et al. v. National ATM Council, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-29 Denied Amici (1) antitrust antitrust-impact civil-procedure class-action class-certification classwide-impact federal-rule-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure material-dispute merits merits-determination Whether a district court validly certifies a class under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) where it deems the proposed method through which pla…
23-712 Stephen Ireland v. Bend Neurological Associates, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights group-boycott market-competition patient-welfare restraint-of-trade sherman-act summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision, by failing properly to acknowledge the evidence Ireland presented, has so far departed from the proper applicati…
23A533 Visa Inc., et al. v. National ATM Council, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete antitrust class-certification damages predominance rule-23 sherman-act 1. This case presents the question of whether a class may be certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) as long as plaintiffs' proposed …
23-562 McDonald's USA, LLC, et al. v. Leinani Deslandes, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law cross-market-effects horizontal-component horizontal-restraints intrabrand-restraint market-competition per-se-rule rule-of-reason sherman-act "The rule of reason is the accepted standard for testing whether a practice restrains trade in violation" of the Sherman Act. Leegin Creative Leather …
23A427 Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete administrative-enforcement antitrust appellate-review ftc-act medical-practice statutory-authority Question not identified.
23-366 Micah Uetricht, et al. v. Chicago Parking Meters, LLC Seventh Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response Waived active-supervision antitrust antitrust-law damages monopoly monopoly-restriction municipal-contract parker-doctrine parker-v-brown sherman-act state-action-doctrine state-action-exemption In 2008, for $1.15 billion, the City of Chicago leased its 36,000 parking meters to a private equity firm, Chicago Parking Meters, LLC ("CPM"). The Ci…
23-283 Tri-City ValleyCats, Inc., et al. v. The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball Second Circuit 2023-09-22 Dismissed Amici (8) antitrust antitrust-immunity baseball baseball-exemption common-law flood-v-kuhn market-competition professional-sports sherman-act stare-decisis Whether this Court should overrule Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 (1972), and its predecessors and revoke the century-old, common-law antitrust immunity …
23-5430 Demitri Brown, aka Timothy D. Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-precedent stare-decisis vertical-restraints Does the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to honor the Supreme Court's Conception ruling, overruling the Hedgewood Opinion? A. Are Gene…
23-120 United States Soccer Federation, Inc. v. Relevent Sports, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-pleading membership-association pleading sherman-act trade-restraint Whether allegations that members of an association agreed to adhere to the association's rules, without more, are sufficient to plead the element of c…
23-33 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. California 2023-07-11 Denied antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights constitutional constitutional-law corporate-influence familial-status housing-discrimination political-influence standing SHOULD THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, lst-7th-14th AMENDMENTS, U.S. FAIR HOUSING ACT, U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT, UNITED STA…
22-977 Jenny Bruns, et vir v. USAA, et al. District of Columbia 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4) all-writs-act antitrust civil-rights co-conspirators due-process longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction supremacy-clause 1. The conspiracy theory of personal jurisdiction ("CTPJ") is nebulous and has no consensus in State and Federal courts. Does the theory satisfy the…
22-7044 In Re Jordan Powell 2023-03-21 Denied IFP administrative-law antitrust disaster-loan due-process economic-injury eidl loan-calculation patent sba sba-authority 1. Under the 5th Amendment Due Process clause, does the Small Business Administration (SBA) have the authority to apply an earlier loan calculation me…
22-6841 Bharani Padmanabhan v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine Massachusetts 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights due-process economic-freedom free-enterprise licensing-board market-participants sovereign-immunity 1. Does Massachusetts ' grant of blanket sovereign immunity to the medical licensing board - knowing that by law it shall not be supervised by the Go…
22-642 General Motors, LLC, et al. v. FCA US, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-conspiracy labor-law labor-union merger-scheme proximate-cause racketeering rico rico-act Whether the direct and intended victim of a racketeering scheme who suffers injury by reason of the scheme is precluded from establishing proximate ca…
22-628 Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC v. Mylan, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law distribution-channels exclusive-dealing market-competition market-foreclosure monopolization monopoly-power section-2 sherman-act When a monopolist's exclusionary conduct would foreclose equally (or potentially equally) efficient rivals from accessing significant channels of dist…
22-444 Nazir Khan v. Presence Chicago Hospitals Network, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment antitrust antitrust-claim civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-privileges physician-privileges standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the hospital can terminate the privileges of a physician who is physically and mentally normal on the basis that he did not cooperate with …
22-5928 David L. Hildebrand v. Wilmar Corporation Tenth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust business-dealings contract-law contractual-law due-process patent-expiration patent-law royalties royalty-agreement settlement-intent standing 1. Is it illegal to agree to continue to pay royalties or fees of any kind to an inventor following the expiration of his patent. 2. Should a court b…
22-327 Confederación Hípica de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. v. Confederación de Jinetes Puertorriqueños, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law concerted-action employer-employee-relationship employment employment-relationship independent-contractors labor-dispute labor-exemption statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory labor exemption from the operation of the antitrust laws, which exempts "labor dispute[s]" that "concern[] terms or conditions o…
22-289 The National Association of Realtors, et al. v. The PLS.com, LLC Ninth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust antitrust-market illinois-brick indirect-network-effects indirect-purchaser-rule multiple-listing-services ohio-v-american-express relevant-market standing-to-sue two-sided-platform First, in defining the relevant antitrust market for a two-sided platform with indirect network effects, can courts simply elect not to analyze both s…
21-1382 Audubon Imports, LLC, dba Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge, et al. v. Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW AG), et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response Waived antitrust civil-procedure conspiracy conspiracy-inference district-court lawful-conduct plausibility-standard pleading pleading-burden sherman-act To determine whether plaintiffs have met their burden to plead a plausible claim under § 1 of the Sherman Act, may the district court weigh whether an…
21-1283 Animal Science Products, Inc., et al. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law federal-rule-44.1 foreign-conduct foreign-law judicial-interpretation prescriptive-comity sherman-act statutory-interpretation Whether, despite this Court's "well established" interpretation of the Sherman Act, U.S. courts may reinterpret the same text of that Act case by case…
21-1187 Sumotext Corp. v. Zoove, Inc., dba StarStar Mobile, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law cross-elasticity-of-demand economic-substitutes expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-702 ninth-circuit-standard relevant-market rule-of-reason sherman-act 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit applies an unduly lax standard for showing whether other suitable economic substitutes are available for the products at …
21-6953 Jaime Luevano v. Hillary R. Clinton, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing Question not identified.
21-852 Christopher D. Lischewski v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust constitutional-principle criminal-antitrust criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial per-se-rule reasonable-doubt separation-of-powers sherman-act The Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, prohibits any contract or combination "in restraint of trade or commerce." This Court has long held that Congress inte…
21-722 Melvin Salveson, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response Waived american-express antitrust antitrust-law consumer-rights direct-purchaser illinois-brick price-fixing transaction-fee transaction-fees two-sided-platform two-sided-platforms Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois , 431 U.S. 720 (1977) holds that plaintiffs who directly purchase products from an antitrust violator may sue to recove…
21-406 Impax Laboratories, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission Fifth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Amici (1) antitrust antitrust-law competition-law patent patent-infringement patent-litigation patent-settlement patent-strength patent-validity reverse-payment Because settlement agreements that permit a "generic manufacturer to enter [a] patentee's market prior to the patent's expiration" increase competitio…
21-156 American Contractors Supply, LLC v. HD Supply Construction Supply, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial material-fact summary-judgment Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 permit the court to weigh competing evidence of a material fact from the moving party to grant summary judgmen…
20-1350 Go New York Tours, Inc. v. Gray Line New York Tours, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived anticompetitive-conduct antitrust antitrust-conspiracy circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure parallel-conduct pleading-standards plus-factors section-1 sherman-act twombly 1. Whether a plaintiff must allege evidence of "plus factors" in addition to parallel anticompetitive conduct in order to plead an antitrust conspirac…
20-1293 AbbVie Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Third Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Amici (3) antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure due-process litigation-exception noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-immunity objective-baselessness sham-litigation standing subjective-element Whether the subjective element of the "sham litigation" exception to Noerr-Pennington immunity may be met by an inference from a finding that a challe…
20-7014 Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure privileges racketeering On District Court acceptance of appellant's $505 filing fee can 9th Circuit Order appeal CLOSED forgetting intake and review of compulsory briefs?I, …
20-1007 Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. Ohio 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-law-enforcement federal-laws state-court-procedure whistleblower whistleblower-protection 1. Are the Courts of the State of Ohio obligated to enforce Federal Laws? a. Whistleblower Laws designed to protect the crime victim and informants. b…
20-969 Freedom Watch, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6) 1st-amendment antitrust appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech human-rights-act political-discrimination sherman-act standing 1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit err by failing to find that the District of Columbia Human Rights Act's prohibition on political…
20-594 Richard S. Berry v. State Bar of Arizona Arizona 2020-11-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust civil-rights commercial-speech constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-regulation professional-services standing state-bar-regulation unauthorized-practice-of-law IS A COURT RULE DEFINING AND PROHIBITING THE UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF LAW ("UPL") AN UNCONSTITU TIONAL ABRIDGMENT OF COMMERCIAL SPEECH WHEN a) IT IS …
20-520 American Athletic Conference, et al. v. Shawne Alston, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Judgment Issued Amici (1) antitrust joint-venture ncaa rule-of-reason sherman-act student-athlete student-athletes Whether the Sherman Act authorizes a court to subject the product-defining rules of a joint venture to full Rule of Reason review, and to hold those r…
20-512 National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Shawne Alston, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-19 Judgment Issued Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law board-of-regents circuit-conflict compensation federal-antitrust ncaa ncaa-rules ninth-circuit rule-of-reason student-athlete-compensation student-athletes Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously held, in conflict with decisions of other circuits and general antitrust principles, that the National Collegiat…
20-319 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. Viamedia, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) anticompetitive-conduct antitrust business-justification circuit-conflict circuit-split refusal-to-deal sherman-act trinko (1) whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a refusal-to-deal claim under § 2 of the Sherman Act may proceed despite the presence of valid b…
20-5331 Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure anti-SLAPP antitrust civil-rights confrontation confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection retaliation In a 15 U.S.C. § 1 controversy claiming industry, law, attorney, group boycott, can District and Appellant Courts, one after the next, deny a citizen …
20-149 Cheryl D. Uzamere v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied antitrust civil-rights court-corruption due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech genocide hobbs-act new-york-state-law Whether New York State Law S2942 —A is unconstitutional: a) Federal Courts find that New York State Law S2942 —A is unconstitutional. b) New York Stat…
20-63 Samuel Pierce v. Yale University, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-23 Denied Response Waived admissions-process antitrust bakke constitutional-law grutter higher-education medical-school sherman-act student-admissions Whether this Court should overrule its holdings in Bakke and Grutter that admission of students to professional schools is constitutionally protected …
19-1284 Malwarebytes, Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-05-13 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (2) anticompetitive-animus antitrust blocking civil-liability civil-rights communications-decency-act computer-service-providers filtering free-speech immunity section-230 Whether federal courts can derive an implied exception to Section 230(c)(2)(B) immunity for blocking or filtering decisions when they are alleged to b…
19-1269 TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Amici (5) antitrust equitable-relief frand frand-commitment jury-trial patent patent-infringement patent-licensing seventh-amendment specific-performance standard-essential-patents standard-setting-organizations Whether a patent owner required to license its standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms has a Seventh Amendment rig…
19-8075 S. Patrick Mendel v. UBER Technologies, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust federal-authority-transportation federal-preemption interstate-commerce intrastate-rates intrastate-routes intrastate-services passenger-transportation public-safety regulatory-conflict transportation-network-companies Briefly, federal authority over intrastate transportation provides: • ... no State ... shall enact or enforce any law, rule, regulation, standard, or …
19-710 Connecticut Fine Wine and Spirits, LLC, dba Total Wine & More v. Michelle H. Seagull, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Amici (1) antitrust antitrust-law commerce-clause market-competition preemption price-fixing sherman-act state-action-doctrine state-regulation wholesale-pricing Whether Section 1 of the Sherman Act preempts state laws facilitating such unsupervised private price-fixing.
19-533 River Birch, Incorporated, et al. v. Waste Management of Louisiana, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response Waived antitrust burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure civil-rico evidence evidentiary-inference federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure matsushita-standard precedent rule-56 summary-judgment In Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. U. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 588 (1986), this Court held that "ambiguous" circumstantial evidence—evid…
19-6326 Michael K. Verble v. City of San Diego, California Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights computer-software constitutional-rights copyright discretionary-process due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection patent patent-infringement standing state-review takings trade-secret volunteer-firefighter Pub L 100-352 102.5 Public Safety Threat to the $ Cmeut With Computerization Analysis Cincuits Built with cincutry 9 inthe A5 a volume tegnety Propert…
19-505 William Rupert v. Susan Bond, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived antitrust circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process frcp-12b6 judicial-expediency noerr-pennington personal-jurisdiction rico rico-statute sham-litigation standing (1) Should the circuit splits over the use of FRCP 12(b)(6) motions (prior to discovery or an evidentiary hearing), to rule upon a disputed issue of f…
19-5999 Natasha Delima v. YouTube, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust censorship civil-procedure civil-rights digital-property due-process first-amendment platform-censorship retaliation standing virtual-property website-regulation Why did the judge issue a "Motion for Leave " on all of the Petitioners pleadings? Why did the judge not issue a default ruling for the Respondents th…
19-349 Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law competition-harm duty-to-deal jury-instructions market-output monopolist monopoly monopoly-liability refusal-to-deal sherman-act short-term-sacrifice single-firm-output Plaintiffs Trendsettah USA, Inc. and Trendsettah Inc. (together, "TSI") entered into contracts with Swisher International, Inc., under which Swisher w…
19-322 The Medical Center at Elizabeth Place, LLC v. Atrium Health System, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-jurisprudence antitrust-law competitive-restraint competitive-restraints joint-venture joint-ventures per-se-rule per-se-violation procompetitive-rationale rule-of-reason sherman-act sherman-act-1 summary-judgment When assessing the legality of competitive restraints imposed by joint ventures, this Court's antitrust jurisprudence recognizes that overly lax enfor…
19-290 Jay Nolan Renobato v. Bureau of the Fiscal Service Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law authority-under-section-636-rule-72 bill-of-rights-excessive-government-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitution-application-judicial-proceedings-prop constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction government-power judicial-procedure judicial-transgressions-conflicts-miscarriages rule-12b1-subject-matter-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treasury-regulations 1. Legal Issues. Whether Acts of Congress and the Constitution require their corrected application to judicial proceedings, property ownership, and in…
19-288 Javier Sanchez, Gregory Casorso, and Michael Marr v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions per-se-rule presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment The question presented is whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional prohibition —grounded in th…
19-5237 Felix Lyle Cowan v. Eli Lilly, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied IFP antitrust bad-faith civil-procedure class-action patent settlement antitrust appellate-jurisdiction bad-faith civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-standing patent standing statutory-interpretation Bad Faith Eli Lilly et al Zyprexa Tort In C. Much Agreed As Settle To Wanted. I ContrActuel Agreed As I #8000 clients IN 'joo $700 mill…
19-5033 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP antitrust antitrust-violation bias civil-procedure-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel constitutional-challenge corporate-infringement due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge patent patent-rights rico standing Whether due process requires jurisdiction must be proven when challenged, when none existed to begin with. Whether adjudicating collateral estoppel f…
18-8613 Quincy Magee v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. District of Columbia 2019-03-28 Denied IFP antitrust business-disputes civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement copyright-protection corporate-infringement due-process employment-rights fraud intellectual-property licensing patent patent-infringement patent-ownership standing trade-secret Legislative Goals Quincy Magee has ownership of Quincy Magee's Companies Properties and Names Renaissance Media Productions - Aesthetic Media Product…
18-8517 Roderick Jermaine Hall v. Sprint Corporation Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied IFP antitrust civil-rights consumer-protection contract-disclosure contract-law disability-rights disclosure-requirements due-process false-advertising federal-regulations network-management service-limitations telecommunications telecommunications-law COURT HAS Jurisdiction 28 USC 1331: FEDERAL QUESTION Sprint fail to disclose information on any documents or website that has Sprint logo or Public No…
18-1229 In Re Carolyn Fjord, et al. 2019-03-21 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment antitrust antitrust-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-court beacon-theaters civil-procedure civil-rights clayton-act due-process jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment • Does the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York denying Petitioners the right to a jury trial for dama…
18-8383 Jeremy C. Southgate v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust antitrust-conspiracy business-damage civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy court-procedure inherent-authority legal-representation racketeering standing trademark trademark-property First, Is there arguable merit to the claim that Respondents engaged in an unlawful antitrust and/or racketeering conspiracy, intending by a pattern o…
18-1170 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) antitrust antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud regional-circuits sherman-act subject-matter-jurisdiction walker-process Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit?
18-8085 Steven Clayton Thomason v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-trust antitrust beacon-theatres beacon-theatres-inc.-v.-westover civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process jury-trial restraint-of-trade rooker-feldman standing Whether the Right to a Jury Trial Wherein Anti-Trust Issues are before the court in a Restraint of Trade Conflict with U.S. Supreme Court Holding in B…
18-912 AmeriCare MedServices, Inc. v. City of Anaheim, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response Waived active-supervision antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure commercial-market-participant commercial-participant federal-antitrust-law market-competition municipal-services preemption regulatory-capacity state-action-doctrine state-action-immunity 1. A state statute governing ambulance services allows one type of competition displacement. Is a municipality that is not authorized by that statute …
18-880 SureShot Golf Ventures, Inc. v. Topgolf International, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied antitrust antitrust-claims article-iii article-iii-ripeness civil-procedure competitor-rights essential-technology market-foreclosure monopolist monopoly patent patent-technology ripeness-doctrine standing 1. Whether the Article III ripeness doctrine bars a competitor's antitrust claims against a monopolist who acquired essential and patented technology …
18-802 James DeHoog, et al. v. Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied antitrust antitrust-law brown-shoe brown-shoe-v-united-states clayton-act clayton-act-section-7 market-concentration market-share merger-analysis potential-competition supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-el-paso united-states-v-el-paso-natural-gas united-states-v-penn-olin-chemical 1. In the over forty-years since this Court has issued a decision interpreting § 7 of the Clayton Act, a trend in unprecedented concentration has grip…
18-774 Anderson News, L.L.C., et al. v. American Media, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied antitrust antitrust-law boycott horizontal-agreement horizontal-boycott market-power per-se-rule price-increase sherman-act Whether a horizontal agreement to boycott a supplier can escape per se condemnation under Section 1 of the Sherman Act based on the assertion that the…
18-603 Martin Siegel, et al. v. Delta Air Lines, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response Waived antitrust conspiratorial-agreements earnings-calls horizontal-price-fixing investor-earnings-calls invitations-to-collude liability-exception price-fixing public-earnings-calls sherman-act sherman-antitrust-act Whether there is an exception to liability under the price-fixing provision of the Sherman Antitrust Act for conspiratorial price-fixing agreements re…
18-475 Zaremba Family Farms, Inc., et al. v. Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Relisted (2) anticompetitive-agreement antitrust antitrust-injury civil-procedure civil-rights due-process injury-in-fact market-allocation oil-and-gas oil-and-gas-rights private-cause-of-action standing takings valuation Whether proof of the fact of damage—a significant drop in the value of a plaintiffs oil and gas interests—because of an illegal, anticompetitive agree…
18-55 Digital Ally, Inc. v. Taser International, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law commercial-bribery government-procurement governmental-purchases noerr-pennington-doctrine robinson-patman-act sherman-act In a case of first impression, the District Court held that since the sales in question were to "governmental" purchasers, Noerr-Pennington immunized …
18-32 Philadelphia Taxi Association, Inc., et al. v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived anti-competitive anti-competitive-behavior antitrust antitrust-law clayton-act competition economic-harm illegal-activity market-competition market-power marketplace-presence monopolization predatory predatory-conduct predatory-pricing sherman-act unfair-competition 1. When is an illegal presence in the marketplace predatory, anti-competitive and threatens to harm competition and not solely competitors? 2. Does t…