Smith ex rel. Sherwood v. Gladden

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• ambiguous evidence is equally consistent with a finding of illegal conspiracy as a finding of permissible competition
• \[T]he plaintiff in a distributor-termination case must also be able to point to evidence which tends to exclude the possibility that the manufacturer was operating independently in making his determination to terminate the distributor.\
• “Matsushita dictates that if the alleged conspiracy is economically infeasible or irrational then, as a matter of law, summary judgment must be entered against the plaintiff.”
• “[T]he plaintiff in a distributor-termination case must also be able to point to evidence which tends to exclude the possibility that the manufacturer was operating independently in making his determination to terminate the distributor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).