SAN FRANCISCO — Antitrust lawyers looking for clarity on how U.S. law applies to overseas cartels were disappointed Monday when U.S. Supreme Court declined to review two cases that could have shed light on the issue.
The Supreme Court denied certiorari in Motorola Mobility v. AU Optronics and Hsiung v. United States, both of which dealt with a murky area of antitrust law under the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act (FTAIA). Courts have struggled with how to apply the law, which governs many of the Northern District of California’s massive price-fixing cases, especially those involving electronic components manufactured in Asia and sold to U.S. consumers in computers, televisions and cellphones.
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