Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. Linkline Communications, Inc.
United States Supreme Court
555 U.S. 438 (2009)
Relevant factsFree
AT&T (defendant) sold DSL infrastructure access to independent retail competitors, including Linkline (plaintiff), at the wholesale level while also competing against them at retail; the retailers sued, alleging AT&T raised wholesale prices and lowered retail prices to squeeze them out of the market, and the lower courts ruled for the retailers.
IssueFree
Whether a wholesaler that has no antitrust obligation to sell to competing retailers may be held liable under antitrust law for subjecting those competitors to a price squeeze.