Second Circuit: Anderson News, L.L.C. v. American Media, Inc.

Publishers' refusals to deal with middleman distributor were insufficiently close in time to be parallel conduct; statements seeming to indicate a common plan are susceptible of more innocent readings.  As a matter of law, finder of fact could not have found beyond a reasonable doubt that the economically implausible refusal to deal had been established by the evidence.

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