Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Commercial Law : From 10/01/06 To 07/01/07
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law, Manufacturing, Retail |
| Title: | Leegin Creative Leather Prods., Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. |
| Date: | 06/28/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-480 |
| Summary: | Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co., 220 U. S. 373, which makes it per se illegal under section 1 of the Sherman Act for a manufacturer and its distributor to agree on the minimum price the distributor can charge for the manufacturer's goods, is overruled. Vertical price restraints are to be judged by the rule of reason. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Services |
| Title: | United Haulers Ass'n, Inc. v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Mgmt. Auth. |
| Date: | 04/30/07 |
| Case Number: | 05–1345 |
| Summary: | In a suit brought by a trade association and individual haulers under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that certain counties' flow control ordinances involving solid waste disposal violated the Commerce Clause, the ordinances are upheld as, while the ordinances benefit a clearly public facility, they treat in-state private business interests exactly the same as out-of-state ones, and thus do not "discriminate against interstate commerce" for purposes of the dormant Commerce Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, International Law |
| Title: | Sinochem Int'l Co. Ltd. v. Malaysia Int'l Shipping Corp. |
| Date: | 03/05/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-102 |
| Summary: | A district court has discretion to respond at once to a defendant's forum non conveniens plea, and need not take up first any other threshold objection. In particular, a court need not resolve whether it has authority to adjudicate the cause (subject-matter jurisdiction) or personal jurisdiction over the defendant if it determines that, in any event, a foreign tribunal is the more suitable arbiter of the merits of the case. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Agriculture, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law |
| Title: | Weyerhauser Co. v. Ross-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co., Inc. |
| Date: | 02/20/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-381 |
| Summary: | In the antitrust context of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the test the Court applied to claims of predatory pricing in Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 509 U.S. 209 (1993), also applies to claims of predatory bidding, which involves the exercise of market power on the buy side or input side of a market to drive the price of a critical input to high levels. |