Andrew Byars v. Bluff City News Company, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that only a case-by-case analysis of each fact situation will determine whether the monopolist's conduct is anti-competitive
• noting that “[t]he classic case is that of a ‘natural’ monopoly such as that possessed by a utility company in a city” and offering “[o]ther examples of a ‘natural’ monopoly”
• explaining that only a case-by-case analysis of each fact situation will determine whether the monopolist’s conduct is anti-competitive
• remanding case to district court for fact-finding to determine whether defendant possessed monopoly power and unlawfully refused to deal in violation of § 2
• “In a typical section 2 monopolization or attempt to monopolize case, the issues of relevant product market and relevant geographic market are usually hotly contested.”
• “Otter Tail, among other things, refused to deal when small towns proposed to replace it with their own retail power systems. In that case, Otter Tail used its monopoly power in the wholesale power market to prevent the displacement of its (natural) monopoly in the local retail power market.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).