PLS.COM, LLC v. NAT. ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

No. 21-55164.

32 F.4th 824 (2022)

The PLS.COM, LLC, a California limited liability company, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS; Bright MLS, Inc.; Midwest Real Estate Data, LLC; California Regional Multiple Listing Service, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 26, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher G. Renner (argued), Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Douglas E. Litvack , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C.; David M. Gossett , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Washington, D.C.; Adam S. Sieff , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Los Angeles, California; Everett W. Jack Jr. , John F. McGrory Jr. , and Ashlee M. Aguiar , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Portland, Oregon; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jerrold Abeles (argued), Wendy Qiu , and Brian D. Schneider , Arent Fox LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees Bright MLS, Inc. and Midwest Real Estate Data LLC.

Robert J. Hicks (argued), Theodore K. Stream , and Andrea Rodriguez , Stream Kim Hicks Wrage and Alfaro PC, Riverside, California, for Defendant-Appellee California Regional Multiple Listing Service, Inc.

Ethan Glass (argued), William A. Burck , Derek L. Shaffer , Michael D. Bonanno , Peter Benson , and Kathleen Lanigan , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellee National Association of Realtors.

Steven J. Mintz (argued), Daniel E. Haar , and Nickolai G. Levin , Attorneys; Richard A. Powers , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae United States of America.

Laura M. Alexander , American Antitrust Institute, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae American Antitrust Institute.

Christopher M. Wyant , K&L Gates LLP, Seattle, Washington; Andrew Mann , K&L Gates LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae Law Professors.

Before: MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and JOHN B. OWENS, Circuit Judges, and STEPHEN J. MURPHY, III, District Judge.


OPINION

OPINION

The PLS.com, a new entrant in the real estate network services market after decades of there being little or no competition in that market, alleges that its entrenched competitors violated the antitrust laws because they conspired to take anticompetitive measures to prevent it from gaining...

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