Richard Hodges and Custom Tours, Inc. v. Wsm, Inc. Grand Ole Opry Tours, Inc. And Opryland Usa, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[i]f Plaintiff would have suffered the same injury without regard to the allegedly anti-competitive acts of Defendant, Plaintiff has not suffered an antitrust injury”
• “Because plaintiffs [do] not allege, nor could they, that the illegal antitrust conduct was a necessary predicate to their injury or that defendants could exclude plaintiffs only by engaging in the antitrust violation, it was appropriate to dismiss the case....”
• “plaintiffs seeking to recover damages in a private action against a violator of antitrust laws must demonstrate more than that they are in a worse position than they would have been had the violator not committed the antitrust conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).