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Johns Manville denied new US antitrust trial over pipe insulation

By Chris May ( November 30, 2024, 01:13 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Johns Manville Corp. won't be granted a new trial after a US federal jury found the company liable for violating the Sherman Act by engaging in anticompetitive threats to withhold its products from customers if they did business with competitor Thermal Pipe Shields, a Colorado federal judge said. "Manville attempts to mandate a sterile and vacuum-tight atmosphere in which the smallest evidence of lawful competitive conduct corrupts the entire trial," creating an "impossible standard," US Magistrate Judge Michael E. Hegarty said in an order denying the company's motion for judgment as a matter of law....

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