( May 29, 2026, 18:20 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Puerto Rico steel distributors Steel Services & Supplies, Aceros de America, and others told a US judge that antitrust claims filed by indirect purchasers of rebar "cannot be rescued," as the plaintiffs had not address fundamental issues with their pleadings. The plaintiffs purchased rebar from retailers, not from any defendant, and their damages claims under Section 4 of the Clayton Act cannot survive under governing case law, the defendants said in their reply brief in support of dismissal filed in the District of Puerto Rico. "Faced with that bar, the Opposition reaches for the only escape route available to it. It tells the Court that paragraph 74’s citation to Section 4 is a 'typographical error'... Plaintiffs cannot rewrite their pleading through an opposition brief. And even if they could, the recharacterized claim fails on its own terms," the defendants said.See attached document....
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