SD3, LLC v. BLACK & DECKER (U.S.) INC.

No. 14-1746.

SD3, LLC; Sawstop LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BLACK & DECKER (U.S.) INC.; BLACK & DECKER CORPORATION; CHANG TYPE INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.; DELTA POWER EQUIPMENT CORP.; HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.; HITACHI KOKI USA LTD.; MAKITA CORPORATION; MAKITA U.S.A., INC.; MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORP.; ONE WORLD TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; OWT INDUSTRIES, INC.; ROBERT BOSCH GMBH; ROBERT BOSCH TOOL CORPORATION; RYOBI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC.; TECHTRONIC INDUSTRIES, CO., LTD.; TECHTRONIC INDUSTRIES NORTH AMERICA, INC.; PENTAIR WATER GROUP, INC.; EMERSON ELECTRIC COMPANY; PENTAIR, INC., Defendants-Appellees, and DEWALT INDUSTRIAL TOOLS; EMERSON ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.; PENTAIR CORPORATION; PORTER-CABLE CORPORATION; SKIL POWER TOOLS, Defendants. AMERICAN ANTITRUST INSTITUTE; NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE, Amici Supporting Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: October 29, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Joel Davidow , CUNEO GILBERT & LADUCA, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellants.

James Scott Ballenger , LATHAM & WATKINS, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.

ON BRIEF: Jonathan W. Cuneo , Matthew E. Miller , CUNEO GILBERT & LADUCA, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellants.

John D. Harkrider , Richard B. Dagen , AXINN, VELTROP & HARKRIDER LLP, Washington, D.C., Bernard J. DiMuro , DIMURO GINSBERG PC, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellees Stanley Black & Decker, Incorporated, Black & Decker (U.S.) Incorporated, and Black & Decker Corporation

Christopher S. Yates , Christopher B. Campbell , Aaron T. Chiu , LATHAM & WATKINS LLP, San Francisco, California, for Appellee Emerson Electric Company.

Paul Devinsky , Stefan M. Meisner , McDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees Hitachi Koki USA Ltd. and Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd..

Lee H. Simowitz , Elizabeth A. Scully , Katherine L. McKnight , BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees Makita USA Incorporated and Makita Corporation.

David M. Foster , Washington, D.C., Layne E. Kruse , Eliot Fielding Turner , FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI LLP, Houston, Texas, for Appellees Robert Bosch Tool Corporation and Robert Bosch GmbH.

James G. Kress , BAKER BOTTS L.L.P., Washington, D.C., Scott W. Hansen , Steven P. Bogart , James N. Law , REINHART BOERNER VAN DEUREN S.C., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for Appellees Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, One World Technologies, Incorporated, OWT Industries, Incorporated, Ryobi Technologies, Incorporated, Techtronics Industries Co., Ltd., and Techtronic Industries North America, Incorporated.

Seth D. Greenstein , David D. Golden , CONSTANTINE CANNON LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae.

Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge Agee wrote the opinion, in which Judge Wynn joined. Judge Wynn wrote a separate concurring opinion. Judge Wilkinson wrote an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.


ON REHERING

SD3, LLC and its subsidiary, SawStop, LLC (together, "SawStop"), contend that several major table-saw manufacturers conspired to boycott SawStop's safety technology and corrupt a private safety-standard-setting process, all with the aim of keeping that technology off the market. Consequently...

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