Reading Industries, Inc. v. Kennecott Copper Corporation

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• affirming district court’s finding that causal relationship between defendants’ alleged antitrust violation and plaintiff’s alleged harm “too tenuous and conjectural” given, among other reasons, it sought to connect conduct across distinct markets
• affirming district court’s finding that causal relationship between defendants’ alleged antitrust violation and plaintiff’s alleged harm “too tenuous and conjectural” given, among other reasons, it sought to connect conduct across distinct markets.
• plaintiff lacked antitrust standing to assert claims based on conjectural theories of injury and attenuated economic causality
• misconduct occurred in refined copper market; injury alleged to participant in copper scrap market; and “[t]o establish a causal chain, the actions of innumerable individual decision-makers must be reconstructed”
• “a court may take judicial notice of its own records in other cases, as 11 well as the records of an inferior court in other cases.”
• no antitrust standing where indirect purchaser , at end of vertical distribution line “predicate[dl its claim of injury on a basis too .tenuous and conjectural for a valid causal finding of anticompetitive effect and damages”

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