Northwest Wholesale Stationers, Inc. v. Pacific Stationery & Printing Co.
United States Supreme Court
472 U.S. 284 (1985)
Relevant factsFree
Northwest, a roughly 100-member office-supply purchasing cooperative offering rebates based on member purchases, expelled Pacific without a hearing after Pacific's ownership changed without required notification; Pacific sued alleging the expulsion was a per se unlawful group boycott, and the court of appeals agreed after the district court had applied the rule of reason and ruled for Northwest.
IssueFree
Whether a per se antitrust analysis may be applied to a group boycott only if the defendant's activity is of a type likely to produce primarily anticompetitive effects.
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