ENERGY CONVERSION v. TRINA SOLAR LIMITED

No. 15-2130.

833 F.3d 680 (2016)

ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES LIQUIDATION TRUST, By and Through Its Liquidating Trustee, John Madden, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TRINA SOLAR LIMITED; Trina Solar (U.S.), Inc.; Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited; Yingli Green Energy Americas, Inc.; Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd.; Suntech America, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 18, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: W. Gordon Dobie , Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellant. Daniel E. Laytin , P.C., Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: W. Gordon Dobie , William C. O'Neil , Kathryn W. Bayer , Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellant. Daniel E. Laytin , P.C., Leonid Feller , James R.P. Hileman , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, Illinois, Matthew J. Reilly , Karen M. Gift , Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Washington, D.C., Jerome S. Fortinsky , Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, New York, Mikael A. Abye , Shearman & Sterling LLP, San Francisco, California, Catherine T. Dobrowitsky , Rivenoak Law Group, P.C., Troy, Michigan, Jonathan C. Sanders , Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Palo Alto, California, Patrick Seyferth , Bush Seyferth & Paige, PLLC, Troy, Michigan, for Appellees.

Before: SILER, ROGERS, and SUTTON, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Consumers benefit when market competition leads to lower prices. Competitors do not. Because antitrust law protects "competition, not competitors," Brown Shoe Co. v. United States, 370 U.S. 294, 320, 82 S.Ct. 1502, 8 L.Ed.2d 510 (1962), courts are leery of antitrust...

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