BERGER ET AL.

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (16 total)

• MCI Commc'ns Corp. & MCI Telecomms. Corp. v. Am. Tel. & Tel. Co., 708 F.2d 1081 (7th Cir. 1983)
  …competition, this court should hold that behavior to constitute unlawful predatory pricing. In support of this “profit maximization” theory, MCI cites a trio of cases. Hanson v. Shell Oil Co., 541 F. 2d 1352, 1358 n. 5 (9th Cir.1976), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 1074, 97 S.Ct. 813, 50 L.Ed.2d 792 (1977); International Air Industries, Inc. v. American Excelsior Co., 517 F. 2d 714, 724 (5th Cir.1975), cert. denied, 424 U.S. 943, 96 S.Ct. 1411, 47 L.Ed.2d 349 (1976); ILC Peripherals Leasing Corp. v. IBM Corp., 458…

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• Cal. Computer Prods., Inc. v. Int'l Bus. Machs. Corp., 613 F.2d 727 (9th Cir. 1979)
  …1961), “the antitrust laws do not require a business to cut its own throat.” The boundaries of reasonable price competition have recently been defined in this circuit. In Hanson v. Shell Oil Co., 541 F. 2d 1352, 1359 (9th Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 1074, 97 S.Ct. 813, 50 L.Ed.2d 792 (1977), we affirmed a directed verdict for a defendant charged with attempted monopolization, holding that the plaintiff’s failure to show that the defendant’s prices were below its marginal or average variable costs 27…

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• Ne. Tel. Co. v. Am. Tel. & Tel. Co., 651 F.2d 76 (2d Cir. 1981)
  …Ed.2d 122 (1978); Pacific Engineering & Production Co. v. Kerr-McGee Corp., 551 F. 2d 790, 797 (10th Cir.), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 879, 98 S.Ct. 234, 54 L.Ed.2d 160 (1977); Hanson v. Shell Oil Co., 541 F. 2d 1352, 1358 (9th Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 1074, 97 S.Ct. 813, 50 L.Ed.2d 792 (1977); International Air Industries, Inc. v. American Excelsior Co., supra, 517 F. 2d at 724. Were this a run-of-the-mill case we would proceed to apply the average variable cost rule to SNET’s PBX prices. But as Nort…

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