The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to second-guess an appellate court’s decision to revive an antitrust suit against a big swath of the magazine industry, handing a win to bankrupt magazine wholesaler Anderson News and its lawyers at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman and Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel.
The high court denied certiorari to a group of magazine publishers and distributors including Hearst Communications, Rodale Inc., Time Inc., Curtis Circulation Company, and Hudson News Distributors, which had hoped to overturn a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. As we reported, in April 2012 the Second Circuit breathed new life into Anderson’s claims that the publishers and distributors conspired to force Anderson out of business after it tried to impose a seven-cent surcharge per magazine.
