For Your Data Jtc Oil Co. 5 Piasa Motor Fuels Illustration Brief (7Th Cir. 1999)

JTC Petroleum Co. v Piasa Motor Fuels case brief summary

JTC was an asphalt applicator rejected past times a supplier because a cartel of asphalt applicators (who rigged bids inwards local regime contracts) paid supra-competitive prices to the supplier inwards guild to dependent JTC. This does non necessarily fifty-fifty ask the producer to collude, only need the same cost that other applicators are offering to pay.
Since JTC is a competition in addition to a cartel raising prices would hold upward by in addition to large attain goodness JTC equally well, JTC must say a even of both impairment to contest in addition to impairment to JTC.
Posner suggests that JTC is a maverick in addition to a threat to the cartel, because it tin dismiss undercut the cartels bid-rigging strategy. However, the cartel tin dismiss foreclose JTC past times denying it access to asphalt producers.
Technically this is a marketplace seat segmentation case, because that is the dominion Posner invokes in addition to the cartel rigs bids past times dividing the areas into exclusive zones in addition to competitive zones.