Denney v. Abbott

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that removal of Amex’s NDPs would “result in lower swipe fees charged to merchants”
• finding that “American Express’s merchant restraints have allowed all four networks to raise their swipe fees more easily and more profitably than would have been possible were merchants permitted to influence their customers’ payment decisions”
• declining to use benefits to cardholders “to offset the price paid by those .companies for network services in their capacity as Amex-accept-ing merchants” (emphasis added)
• “[T]he merchant discount fee is primarily comprised of three elements: a percentage interchange fee, an acquirer fee, and a network fee.”
• “As non-price vertical restraints between firms at different levels of production—namely, between the network and its merchant-consumers—American Express’s NDPs are properly analyzed under the rule of reason.”
• “[T]he merchant discount fee is primarily comprised of three elements: a percentage interchange fee, an acquirer fee, and a network fee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).