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Ninth Circuit Courts Reject Antitrust “Bundling” Claims In Two Recent Cases
November 16, 2009 Full PDF
In two recent cases - Masimo v. Tyco Health Care Group, L.P. and Brantley v. NBC Universal, Inc. - federal courts in the Ninth Circuit rejected plaintiffs' claims that alleged "bundling" practices violated the antitrust laws. These cases further clarify the standards that courts in the Ninth Circuit, and potentially elsewhere, apply to claims that bundling practices of various kinds are anticompetitive.