AMC Convinces Texas Supreme Court to Hear Antitrust Grievances

The Texas Supreme Court will consider AMC’s case that circumstantial evidence isn’t enough to propel a boutique movie theater’s antitrust claims to trial.

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. petitioned the state’s highest court for review in February 2020. The industry giant argued a Texas appellate court erred in determining luxury theater chain iPic-Gold Class Entertainment LLC presented genuine material facts of conspiracy.

“Piling impermissible inference upon impermissible inference cannot establish legally sufficient evidence of a fact because zero plus zero still equals zero,” AMC wrote in its petition.

iPic first sued AMC and Regal Entertainment Inc. in 2015, alleging the two ...