United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit by a putative class of retail cable and satellite television subscribers alleging that the practice of defendant television programmers and distributors selling multi-channel cable packages is a restraint of trade that violates section 1 of the Sherman Act, the district court's dismissal for failure to state a claim is affirmed, where the plaintiffs did not allege facts showing that an injury to competition flowed from the defendants' tying arrangements.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/30/2012
• Published 03/30/2012

Judges

• Ikuta

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Maxwell M. Blecher, Glenn D. Pomerantz