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Tech groups back US high court review of NTE’s antitrust case against Duke Energy

( March 27, 2025, 15:47 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Computer & Communications Industry Association, App Association, and others told the US Supreme Court that the Fourth Circuit upended established antitrust doctrine by holding that multiple lawful business practices, when combined, can somehow violate the Sherman Act. The associations filed a brief in support of Duke Energy’s petition for US Supreme Court review of NTE Carolinas’ antitrust case over electricity transmission. “This ‘monopoly broth’ theory contradicts this court’s precedent and creates the specter of treble damages liability for entirely lawful actions. Left uncorrected, the decision will chill the very procompetitive conduct the antitrust laws were designed to encourage,” they said. See attached file. Statement follows...

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