Clark v. United States of America

How courts have described this case

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• holding that proximate causation in the common law sense was required under section 4 of the Clayton Act
• holding that a combination of indirectness of injury, a non-antitrust type of injury, and speculative damages preclude antitrust enforcement
• holding that plaintiff had no antitrust cause of action where it “was neither a consumer nor a competitor” in the market
• recognizing that the tenuous and speculative nature of the relationship between alleged antitrust violation and injury, and the existence of more direct victims, weigh heavily against a finding of antitrust standing
• holding that a labor union could not pursue an antitrust claim against the association defendant because it did not suffer an antitrust injury under section 4 of the Clayton Act
• holding that plaintiff had no antitrust cause of action where it “was neither a consumer nor a competitor” in the market

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