FTC’s Slaughter Regards High Court's Apple Decision as Consumer Win
The Supreme Court made the right decision allowing consumers to sue Apple for using its alleged App Store monopoly to drive up app prices (see 1905130047), FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter argued in tweets Monday. She cited various points from…
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the 5-4 decision. She noted that Illinois Brick is “not a get-out-of-court-free card for monopolistic retailers to play any time that a damages calculation might be complicated." The Clayton Act allows injured parties to sue under antitrust laws, she tweeted: "If a retailer has engaged in unlawful monopolistic conduct that has caused consumers to pay higher-than competitive prices, it does not matter how the retailer structured its relationship with an upstream manufacturer or supplier.”