all - Opinion Summaries

LOCKYER v. MIRANT CORP.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Public Utilities
In a suit by the Attorney General of California for divestiture of an energy company, a stay order is vacated where the Attorney General's suit comes...

SANTANA PROD. INC. v. BOBRICK WASHROOM EQUIP.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, False Advertising, Government Contracts
Plaintiff's claim, alleging defendant violated the Sherman Act by conspiring to induce government architects to specify its toilet partition product,...

INDEP. INK v. ILL TOOL WORKS, INC.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Intellectual Property, Patent
A rebuttable presumption of market power arises from the possession of a patent over a tying product.

UNITED INV. LIFE INS. CO. v. WADDELL & REED

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
Business and Professions Code section 17204 does not affect appellate court jurisdiction to address the merits of standing to assert unfair...

WAL-MART STORES, INC. v. VISA INC.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Attorney's Fees, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law
The district court's approval the largest class action settlement in the history of antitrust law is affirmed over defendants' challenge to the...

KNOLOGY, INC. v. INSIGHT COMMUNICATIONS CO.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Denial of defendant's immunity from plaintiff's Sherman Act and 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims is reversed where the Noerr-Pennington doctrine...

N. CA. POWER AGENCY v. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMM'N

Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Constitutional Law
Plaintiff-Nuclear Regulatory Commission's order, refusing to reimpose antitrust provisions in licenses being transferred in connection with a...

GEORGE LUSSIER ENTER. v. SUBARU OF NEW ENGLAND.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Contracts, Transportation
Plaintiffs-automobile dealers' suit under the Automobile Dealers' Day in Court Act, state dealer acts, RICO, antitrust acts, and state contract law,...

IN RE: CARDIZEM CD ANITTRUST LITIG.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Class Actions
The district court's imposition of an appeal bond on plaintiff, for her objections to a proposed settlement in an antitrust class action suit, is...

JOHN SANTILLI'S CENTER FOR AUTO. v. GEN. MOTORS CORP.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Transportation
Plaintiff's claim, alleging that defendant-automobile manufacturer's unfair practices violated the Massachusetts statute regulating the relationship...