Ronald A. Schachar v. American Academy of Ophthalmology, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that boycotts and agreements not to distribute certain products are the types of enforcement mechanisms that may render speech actionable under the antitrust laws
• noting that, whenever one competitor’s statements about another are “false or misleading or incomplete or just plain mistaken, the remedy is not antitrust litigation but more speech — the marketplace of ideas”
• finding significant that defendant had “no authority over hospitals, insurers, state medical societies or licensing boards, and other persons who might be able to govern the performance of surgery”
• \antitrust law does not compel your competitor to praise your product or sponsor your work.\
• role of Sherman Act is not to evaluate the merits of an organization’s conclusion, just whether it had anticompetitive effect
• no restraint where defendant had “no authority over hospitals, insurers, state medical societies or licensing boards”

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