Texaco Inc. v. Dagher
| Texaco Inc. v. Dagher | |
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| Argued January 10, 2006 Decided February 28, 2006 | |
| Full case name | Texaco Incorporated, Petitioner v. Fouad N. Dagher, et al.; Shell Oil Company, Petitioner v. Fouad N. Dagher, et al. |
| Citations | 547 U.S. 1 (more) 126 S. Ct. 1276; 164 L. Ed. 2d 1; 2006 U.S. LEXIS 2023; 74 U.S.L.W. 4147; 2006-1 Trade Cas. (CCH) ¶ 75,143 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | Summary judgment granted to defendants, Dagher v. Saudi Refining, Inc., C.D. Cal.; affirmed in part, reversed and remanded, 369 F.3d 1108 (9th Cir. 2004); cert. granted, sub nom. Texaco Inc. v. Dagher, 125 S. Ct. 2957 (2005) |
| Holding | |
| The pricing decisions of a legitimate joint venture between oil companies to sell gasoline to service stations did not violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinion | |
| Majority | Thomas, joined by Roberts, Stevens, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
| Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
| Laws applied | |
| 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) | |
Texaco Inc. v. Dagher, 547 U.S. 1 (2006), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the application of U.S. antitrust law to a joint venture between oil companies to market gasoline to gas stations. The Court ruled unanimously that the joint venture's unified price for the two companies' brands of gasoline was not a price-fixing scheme between competitors in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Court instead considered the joint venture a single entity that made pricing decisions, in which the oil companies participated as cooperative investors.