Empagran S.A. v. F. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Ltd.
United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
417 F.3d 1267 (2005)
Relevant factsFree
Foreign vitamin purchasers (plaintiffs) sued vitamin sellers (defendants) alleging a worldwide price-fixing conspiracy, arguing on remand from the Supreme Court that even though their injury occurred entirely in foreign markets, it was connected to the conspiracy's effect of maintaining artificially high domestic U.S. prices, since lower U.S. prices would have let them buy from the U.S. market instead of paying inflated foreign prices.
IssueFree
Whether the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act permits antitrust suits with only an indirect connection to domestic anticompetitive effects.
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