We have the second and final decision of the day. It is Ohio v. AmeEx, it is from Justice Thomas, and it is affirmed.
The vote is 5-4, with Breyer writing the dissent.
The Court holds that Amex's steering provisions do not violate federal antitrust law.
Court defines the market as two-sided, including both merchants and cardholders. When the market is defined this way, the Court says, it is clear that the plaintiffs have not met their burden to show anti-competitive effects.
Breyer, a former antitrust law professor, is reading his dissent from the bench. This means we will have to wait some more to hear when the court will be back.
Tomorrow we will have more opinions. They did not announce that tomorrow will be the next day, so it looks like we get to do this again at least twice!
They have finished releasing decisions for today. We will be back again tomorrow! I'm going to get to work now, but hopefully others will stick around to answer questions.
I'm outta here. See y'all later.
Hi all, that's all for this morning. We'll be back tomorrow and at least one other day this week (Wednesday?).
Already this morning I posted the latest First Mondays podcast -- and thanks to Dan, Ian, and Leah for joining us again.
Today we'll have Amy writing on this morning's orders and on Abbott v. Perez, the racial gerrymandering case from Texas. Beth Farmer will write on the antitrust decision, Ohio v. AmEx. And Mark Walsh will provide a "view" from the courtroom.
If we didn't get to your question or comment -- sorry about that and hopefully we can tomorrow!
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