A.A. Poultry Farms, Inc. v. Rose Acre Farms, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that “no rational jury could have found that recoupment took place, could have taken place, or conceivably could take place in the future”
• describing the many considerations in a single firm case that make it difficult to infer predatory conduct from the relation of price to cost
• describing the many considerations in a single firm ease that make it difficult to infer predatory conduct from the relation of price to cost
• “Selling a chain 100% of its requirements at 80c/dozen is the same as furnishing 80% of the requirements at $1.00/dozen and giving it the other 20% for ‘free.’ Whether price discrimination has occurred depends, therefore, on the price after all discounts, specials, and so on.”
• “[i]f courts use vigorous, nasty, pursuit of sales as evidence of forbidden ‘intent,’ they run the risk of penalizing the motivation forces of competition”
• “desire to extinguish one’s rivals is entirely consistent with, [and] often is the motive behind, competition”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).