sherman-act
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 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. | |
| 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… |
| 25-293 | General Dynamics Corporation, et al. v. Susan Scharpf | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Pending | CVSGAmici (2) | antitrust-claims conspiracy fraudulent-concealment sherman-act statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine | Whether plaintiffs adequately plead that defendants engaged in fraudulent concealment, for purposes of tolling the Section 15b statute of limitations,… |
| 25-199 | Daniel Concepcion, et al. v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, dba MLB, et al. | First Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | antitrust-exemption baseball-litigation constitutional-challenge equal-protection sherman-act supreme-court-precedent | 1. WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN FEDERAL BASEBALL CLUB OF BALTIMORE V. NATIONAL LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL CLUBS, 259 U.S. 200 (1922) AND ITS… |
| 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… | |
| 24-1324 | SAP SE, et al. v. Teradata Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | antitrust-law per-se-rule rule-of-reason sherman-act software-products tying-arrangement | 1. Whether the rule of reason properly governs tying claims under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1, concerning software products that are tec… |
| 24-1108 | Lisa McCarthy, et al. v. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-24 | Denied | Response Waived | antitrust-suit due-process jurisdictional-discovery libor-rate sherman-act standing-doctrine | Whether Petitioners were denied their constitutional right to a "hearing" and opportunity for an oral argument under the Due Process Clause of the Fif… |
| 24-917 | Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, et al. v. NTE Carolinas II, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-25 | Denied | CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) | antitrust-law legal-aggregation market-conduct monopolization section-2 sherman-act | Whether a plaintiff can prevail on a monopolization claim under Section 2 of the Sherman Act by aggregating multiple distinct, independently lawful ac… |
| 24-800 | Rosemary D'Augusta, et al. v. American Petroleum Institute, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Denied | act-of-state-doctrine antitrust-law jurisdiction oil-production price-fixing sherman-act | This is a private antitrust suit brought under Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Antitrust Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 15, 26) for violations of Sections 1 and 2… | |
| 24-591 | CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | antitrust-violation continuing-violation monopoly sherman-act statute-of-limitations trade-restraint | This Court has held that the Clayton Act statute of limitations permits recovery of damages for injuries arising from "conduct which constituted a con… |
| 24-124 | Brent Brewbaker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | 5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness | 1. Section 1 of the Sherman Act criminalizes "[e]very contract ...in restraint of trade." 15 U.S.C. § 1. This prohibition cannot be applied literally … | |
| 24-51 | Randall Bock v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-07-17 | Denied | judicial-immunity licensing-board market-participants professional-licensing quasi-judicial-immunity sherman-act sovereign-immunity state-action-doctrine state-action-immunity supreme-court-precedent | This petition concerns the studied, repeated defiance over the past nine years by the United States Court of Appeals for First Circuit of this Court's… | |
| 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… | |
| 23-1191 | 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. | |
| 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… | |
| 23-712 | 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 … |
| 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… |
| 23-337 | Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | anticompetitive-effects antitrust-law circuit-split competition-analysis judicial-review less-restrictive-alternative procompetitive-justification restraint-of-trade rule-of-reason sherman-act | This case presents two critical questions regarding the legal standards governing the Rule of Reason, which determines the outcome of nearly every She… | |
| 23-300 | ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Microsoft Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 congressional-power constitutional-rights copyright-clause exclusive-right fourteenth-amendment inventor-protection patent-clause patent-ownership sherman-act statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common … |
| 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 … |
| 23A108 | Micah Uetricht, et al. v. Chicago Parking Meters, LLC | Seventh Circuit | 2023-08-08 | Presumed Complete | antitrust-law midcal-aluminum monopoly-pricing parker-v-brown sherman-act state-action-immunity | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 22-573 | BRFHH Shreveport LLC, dba University Health Shreveport v. Willis-Knighton Medical Center, dba Willis-Knighton Health System | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | antitrust-law circuit-split motion-to-dismiss plausibility-standard pleading-standards rule-12(b)(6) section-1 sherman-act twombly | May a Section 1 claim be dismissed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), consistent with Twombly, based on evidence suggesting an alternative, non-con… |
| 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 … |
| 21-6842 | Ada Maria Benson v. Census 2020, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ada-act civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employer government-misconduct retaliation sherman-act title-vii | The Supreme Court has recognized in a variety of contexts that the judiciary's legitimacy and efficacy derives largely from the public's confidence in… |
| 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… |
| 21-6385 | Edward J. Dostal v. Basin Electric Power Cooperative, et al. | South Dakota | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-timeline court-procedure due-process federal-court-precedent filing-deadline motion-dismissal public-utility-regulation sherman-act state-court-precedent supremacy-clause | The South Dakota Supreme Court dismissal order used the motion for appeal filing fee payment date rather than the actual filing date causing the Petit… |
| 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… |
| 20-969 | 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… |
| 20-643 | D&G, Inc., dba Gary's Foods, et al. v. C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Response Waived | antitrust-law bid-rigging customer-allocation horizontal-competitors market-allocation per-se-violation price-fixing sherman-act territorial-allocation | The Sherman Act treats certain agreements among competitors as illegal per se, without regard to any claimed pro-competitive benefits of the arrangeme… |
| 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… |
| 20-319 | 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… |
| 20-63 | 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 … |
| 19-1098 | National Football League, et al. v. Ninth Inning, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-09 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | antitrust-market competition-harm damages-claim illinois-brick indirect-purchaser joint-venture rule-of-reason sherman-act | 1. Whether an agreement among the members of a joint venture on how best to distribute the venture's jointly created core product may be condemned und… |
| 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. |
| 19-349 | 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… |
| 19-288 | 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… |
| 18A1364 | Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Presumed Complete | antitrust-law jury-instructions market-competition monopoly-power refusal-to-deal sherman-act | Question not identified. | |
| 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? |
| 18-934 | Cynthia Prosterman, et al. v. American Airlines Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response Waived | antitrust-enforcement antitrust-pleading civil-procedure combination-conspiracy due-process pleading-standards rule-12b6 sherman-act twombly twombly-standard | Since this Court decided Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), Circuits are split as to its interpretation and Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) dismi… |
| 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… |
| 18-55 | 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… |