Supreme Court· 5/2/1988

Business Electronics Corp. v. Sharp Electronics Corp.

Citations

485 U.S. 717
108 S. Ct. 1515
99 L. Ed. 2d 808
1988 U.S. LEXIS 2033
56 U.S.L.W. 4387
1988 WL 39121

How courts have described this case

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analyzing an alleged agreement between one supplier and one horizontal distributor as a vertical non- price-fixing conspiracy under the rule of reason
expressing concern that if courts permit the inference of illegal concerted activity from highly ambiguous evidence it would unduly burden the marketplace
reiterating twice the preference for considering substantial economic effect, rather than formalism
“Certain categories of agreements, however, have been held tó be per se illegal, dispensing with the need for case-by-case evaluation.”
“vertical restraint is not illegal per se unless it includes some agreement on price or price levels”
there is a “presumption in favor of the rule-of-reason standard, [and] departure from that standard must be justified by demonstrable economic effect”

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Judges: Scalia, Rehnquist, Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, O'Connor, Stevens, White, Kennedy

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