Federal Trade Commission v. Cardinal Health, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that “the services provided by wholesalers in fact comprise a distinct submarket within the larger market of drug delivery.”
• finding that “even with such guarantees [to maintain prices], the mergers would likely result in anti-competitive prices.”
• stating that “the determination of the relevant market in the end is ‘a matter of business , reality — [ ] of how the market is perceived by those who strive for profit in it.’” (alteration in original
• finding a national geographic market where evidence showed that “GPOs negotiate contracts with several wholesalers, making the same prices available throughout the country to all of their members — local, regional, or national”
• “[d]efining the relevant market is critical in an antitrust case because the legality of the proposed mergers in question almost always depends upon the market power of the parties involved.”
• examination of the drug wholesale market by specifically focusing on the needs and abilities of the different groups of customers of drug wholesalers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).