Court Opinion

ID: 9429552
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:27:07.125819+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:20.217146
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Justice Brennan,
with whom Justice Marshall joins, concurring.
As the opinion for the Court demonstrates, we have long held that tying arrangements are subject to evaluation for per se illegality under § 1 of the Sherman Act. Whatever merit the policy arguments against this longstanding construction of the Act might have, Congress, presumably aware of our decisions, has never changed the rule by amending the Act. In such circumstances, our practice usually has been to stand by a settled statutory interpretation and leave the task of modifying the statute’s reach to Congress. See Monsanto Co. v. Spray-Rite Service Corp., 465 U. S. 752, 769 (1984) (Brennan, J., concurring). I see no reason to depart from that principle in this case and therefore join the opinion and judgment of the Court.