Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Ross-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “a monopsony is to the buy side of the market what a monopoly is to the sell side” and “similar legal standards should apply”
• finding buyer power in upstream market for inputs, despite lack of seller power in national downstream market for outputs
• “Seeking the 2 lowest possible price . . . is pro-competitive behavior, which in the end, should lower the 3 costs . . . for consumers.”
• noting that “high bidding is essential to competition”
• noting the high costs of erroneous findings of predatory-pricing liability because “[t]he mechanism by which a firm engages in predatory pricing — lowering prices — is the same mechanism by which a firm stimulates competition” (alteration in original, internal quotations omitted)
• noting the high costs of erroneous findings of predatory-pricing liability because “[t]he mechanism by which a firm engages in predatory pricing — lowering prices — is the same mechanism by which a firm stimulates competition” (alteration in original, internal quotations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).