LoDuca, J. v. Hackenberg, L.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that under federal antitrust law an employer is charged with wrongful acts of its agent, even an agent that was only acting with apparent authority
• holding that “an extra-governmental agency, which prescribes rules for the regulation and restraint of interstate commerce,” may be liable for the torts of its agents who act under apparent authority (citation omitted)
• holding that an antitrust private action “was created primarily as a remedy for the victims of antitrust violations . . . ” and that “treble damages serve as a means of deterring antitrust violations and of compensating victims”
• determining that a professional association could be held liable for the actions of its officers and agents taken with apparent authority
• holding that an antitrust private action “was created primarily as a 7 remedy for the victims of antitrust violations . . . ” and that “treble damages serve as 8 a means of deterring antitrust violations and of compensating victims”
• observing that treble damages were “designed in part to punish past violations of the antitrust law” and “also designed to deter future antitrust violations” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).