Aircraft Check Services Compan v. Verizon Wireless

How courts have described this case

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• noting that nothing in the allegedly collusive e-mails “suggests that [the defendants] believed there was a conspiracy among the carriers”
• noting that nothing in the allegedly collusive e-mails “suggests that [the defendants] believed there was a conspiracy among the carriers”
• finding that, in the Seventh Circuit, “a showing of bad faith is required to succeed on a motion requesting an adverse inference [instruction] based on spoliation.”
• noting that a firm may “raise its price, counting on its competitors to do likewise (but without any communication with them on the subject) and fearing the consequences if they do not”
• noting that opportunities for the defendants’ executives to meet privately “would be more compelling if the immediate sequel to any of these meetings had been a simultaneous or near-simultaneous price increase by the defendants”
• stating that one can “expect competing firms to keep close track of each other’s pricing and other market behavior” and that such firms “often find it in their self-interest to imitate that behavior rather than try to undermine it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).