Netafim Irrigation Inc. scored an early victory in a lawsuit claiming it led a multi-pronged boycott of a rival irrigation equipment maker and two affiliates that sell and install irrigation systems.
Jain Irrigation Inc. and its co-plaintiffs may have alleged enough details to show an antitrust violation, but not under their theory that Netafim’s actions were per se illegal, a federal judge ruled.
The complaint “is deficient because of the particular legal theory plaintiffs have elected to proceed under, not necessarily due to the insufficiency of the factual allegations,” Judge Dale A. Drozd of the U.S. District Court for the ...
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