Court Opinion

ID: 9482821
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 09:01:44.890573+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:49:13.709056
License: Public Domain

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I agree fully with the result reached by the majority opinion and the imaginative and penetrating analysis on which it rests. I would, however, withhold judgment as to some of the more sweeping dicta on the singularity of focus of the antitrust laws on readily demonstrable consumer benefit. See, e.g., Fishman v. Estate of Wirtz, 807 F.2d 520, 535-38 (7th Cir.1986); Otter Tail Power Co. v. United States, 410 U.S. 366, 93 S.Ct. 1022, 35 L.Ed.2d 359 (1973). In addition, it may be that “[mjarkets slowly but surely undermine practices that injure consumers.” Ante at 676. But theory may far outrun practice in assertions such as this.