SOLARCITY CORP. v. SALT RIVER PROJECT AGRICULTURAL

No. 15-17302.

859 F.3d 720 (2017)

SOLARCITY CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SALT RIVER PROJECT AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT AND POWER DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 12, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Volchok (argued), Thomas G. Sprankling , David Gringer , and Christopher E. Babbitt , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; Molly S. Boast , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, New York; Christopher T. Casamassima , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Los Angeles, California; Karl M. Tilleman and Paul K. Charlton , Steptoe and Johnson LLP, Phoenix, Arizona; for Defendant-Appellant.

Richard A. Feinstein (argued), Amy J. Mauser , Karen L. Dunn , and William A. Isaacson , Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, Washington, D.C.; Sean P. Rodriguez , John F. Cove Jr. , and Steven C. Holtzman , Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, Oakland, California; Roopali H. Desai and Keith Beauchamp , Coppersmith Brockelman PLC, Phoenix, Arizona; for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Chris L. Schmitter , Janine W. Kimble , Bethany D. Krueger , and John M. Baker , Greene Espel PLLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for Amici Curiae American Public Power Association and Large Public Power Council.

Steven Mitz (argued), James J. Fredricks , and Kristen C. Limarzi , Attorneys; Renata B. Hesse , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae United States of America.

Before: Alex Kozinski, Ronald Lee Gilman, and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Solar-panel supplier SolarCity Corporation filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (the Power District), alleging that the Power District had attempted to entrench its monopoly by setting prices that disfavored solar-power providers....

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