Bloomberg Law
Nov. 22, 2016, 5:53 PM UTC

‘Snookered’ Supreme Court Pushes Back in Billion Dollar Antitrust Case

Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson

The U.S. Supreme Court sent a clear signal on Nov. 17: No more bait-and-switch tactics.

The court “dismissed as improvidently granted” — or “DIG"ged — an antitrust case involving billions of dollars and household names like Visa, MasterCard, Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase,Visa Inc. v. Osborn, U.S., No. 15-961, dismissed 11/17/16.

The court infrequently DIGs cases, and even more infrequently explains why.

But there was no mistake why the court tossed the the Visa case.

After having persuaded the court to grant certiorari on one issue, the “petitioner ‘chose to rely on a different argument’ in ...

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