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· 8/14/2023

Commonwealth v. Younger, T.

How courts have described this case

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  • providing that “the general rule of statutory construction that the burden of proving justification or exemption under a special exception to the prohibitions of a statute generally rests on one who claims its benefits”
  • explaining that to state an unlawful price-discrimination claim, the plaintiff must allege “that a seller had charged one purchaser a higher price for like goods than he had charged one or more of the purchaser’s competitors”
  • applying this general rule of statutory construction to the Anti-Injunction Act
  • a showing that price discrimination was sufficient in amount to influence resale prices was \in itself ... adequate to show competitive injury\
  • a showing that price discrimination was sufficient in amount to influence resale prices was “in itself ... adequate to show competitive injury”
  • “discrimination” requires at least two sales by a single person at different prices to different customers in competition with each other

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Judges: Per Curiam

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