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Twombly, 127 S. Ct. at 1961. Court’s precedent interpreting Rule 8, the Court engaged in an ad hoc cost-benefit analysis.
Consumers with telephone and internet subscriptions brought an antitrust claim against local telephone companies, alleging that the companies had arranged not to compete with each other and had attempted to exclude potential competitors in a way that gave them a monopoly over the market.
Twombly case where the plaintiffs represented a putative class of at least 90 percent of subscribers of local telephone or high‐speed Internet service against the largest telecommunications companies in the country for unspecified instances of antitrust violations that occurred over a seven‐year period.
Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States involving antitrust law and civil procedure. Authored by Justice David Souter, it established that parallel conduct, absent evidence of agreement, is insufficient to sustain an antitrust action under Section 1 of the Sherman Act.
TWOMBLY Opinion of the Court to be pleaded to permit an antitrust claim based on paral-lel conduct to survive dismissal.fl 425 F. 3d 99, 114 (2005) (emphasis in original). Although the Court of Appeals took the view that plaintiffs must plead facts that fiinclude conspiracy among the realm of ‚plausible™ possibilities in
An antitrust conspiracy plaintiff with evidence showing nothing beyond parallel conduct is not entitled to a directed verdict, see Theatre Enterprises, supra; proof of a §1 conspiracy must include evidence tending to exclude the possibility of independent action, see Monsanto Co. v.
The Twombly opinion put a greater burden on plaintiffs bringing antitrust claims to ensure that facts are included in the complaint that make the alleged conduct “plausible”
