George R. Whitten, Jr., Inc., Doing Business as Whitten Corporation v. Paddock Pool Builders, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “there should be no commercial exception to Noerr-Pennington”
• stating “While the two doctrines are often treated as one, we agree with [defendant]’s separate treatment of each. The two are not coterminous.”
• adopting an exception to Noerr-Pennington where the government is performing a proprietary function
• Noerr does not protect efforts to influence \public officials engaged in purely commercial dealings\ and charged with the task of making \government purchases ... according to strictly economic criteria.\
• Noerr does not protect efforts to influence “pubiic officials engaged in purely commercial dealings” and charged with the task of making “government purchases . . . according to strictly economic criteria.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).