Opinion ID: 820495
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Potential for duplicative recoveries

Text: Finally, and relatedly, the risk of multiple and duplicative recoveries, while perhaps not of primary concern here, provides additional support for rejecting Gatt as an efficient enforcer. As we have observed, other Vertex dealers could assert—just as plausibly as Gatt has asserted in this case—that, had the bidding been independent, they would have bid on and won the Police Department and the Transit Authority contracts. We recognize that other Vertex dealers may not file suit, and that future actions may well be time-barred. See 15 U.S.C. § 15b (establishing four-year statute of limitations for private antitrust suits under 15 U.S.C. § 15). Regardless, this factor too works against Gatt.