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Comcast Corp. v. Behrend
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 5, 2012 Decided March 27, 2013
Full case name	Comcast Corporation, et al., Petitioners v. Caroline Behrend, et al.
Docket no.	11-864
Citations	569 U.S. 27 (more) 133 S. Ct. 1426; 185 L. Ed. 2d 515; 2013 U.S. LEXIS 2544, 81 U.S.L.W. 4217
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	Decision against defendant, 264 F.R.D. 150 (E.D. Pa. 2010); affirmed, 655 F.3d 182 (3d Cir. 2011); rehearing en banc denied, unreported; certiorari granted, 567 U.S. 933 (2012).
Holding
Respondents' class action was improperly certified under Rule 23(b)(3).
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Scalia, joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito
Dissent	Ginsburg and Breyer, joined by Sotomayor, Kagan
Laws applied
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3)

Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, 569 U.S. 27 (2013), is a United States Supreme Court case dealing with class certification under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.^[1] The case restricted class certifications. The votes were split upon typical ideological lines, but, in an unusual move, the dissent was jointly written by two justices.

References

^ Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, 569 U.S. 27 (2013).

External links

Text of Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, 569 U.S. 27 (2013) is available from: CourtListener Google Scholar Justia Oyez (oral argument audio) Supreme Court (slip opinion) (archived)

United States antitrust law

History
Interstate Commerce Commission (1887–1996)
Bureau of Corporations (1903–1915)
Pujo Committee (1912–1913)
Federal Trade Commission (1914–)
U.S. Justice Department Antitrust Division (1919–)
U.S. Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee
U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee

Statutes and
regulations

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Elkins Act (1903)
Expediting Act (1903)
Publicity In Taking Evidence Act (1913)
Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914
Webb–Pomerene Act (1918)
Willis Graham Act (1921)
Capper–Volstead Act (1922)
Robinson–Patman Act (1936)
Wheeler–Lea Act (1938)
McCarran–Ferguson Act (1945)
Celler–Kefauver Act (1950)
Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961
Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970
Tunney Act (1974)
Hart–Scott–Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (1976)
National Cooperative Research and Production Act (1993)
Executive Order 14036 (2021)

Supreme Court
case law

Sherman Antitrust Act case law	United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895) United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association (1897) Addyston Pipe & Steel Co. v. United States (1899) Northern Securities Co. v. United States (1904) Swift & Co. v. United States (1905) Loewe v. Lawlor (1908) Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co. (1911) Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States (1911) United States v. American Tobacco Co. (1911) United States v. Terminal Railroad Association (1912) Chicago Board of Trade v. United States (1918) United States v. Colgate & Co. (1919) Federal Baseball Club v. National League (1922) United States v. General Electric Co. (1926) Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. United States (1939) Ethyl Gasoline Corp. v. United States (1940) United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (1940) Fashion Originators' Guild of America v. FTC (1941) United States v. Masonite Corp. (1942) United States v. Univis Lens Co. (1942) Parker v. Brown (1943) United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n (1944) Associated Press v. United States (1945) Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States (1945) Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (1946) International Salt Co. v. United States (1947) United States v. Line Material Co. (1948) United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948) United States v. United States Gypsum Co. (1948–1950) Besser Manufacturing Co. v. United States (1951) Lorain Journal Co. v. United States (1951) United States v. New Wrinkle, Inc. (1952) Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United States (1953) Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc. (1953) United States v. International Boxing Club of New York, Inc. (1955) Radovich v. National Football League (1957) Klor's, Inc. v. Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc. (1959) United States v. Parke, Davis & Co. (1960) United States v. Loew's Inc. (1962) United States v. Wise (1962) Silver v. New York Stock Exchange (1963) United States v. Singer Mfg. Co. (1963) Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp. (1965) Albrecht v. Herald Co. (1968) Haywood v. National Basketball Association (1971) Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1971) Flood v. Kuhn (1972) Otter Tail Power Co. v. United States (1973) United States v. Glaxo Group Ltd. (1973) Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar (1975) Continental Television, Inc. v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. (1977) Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois (1977) Broadcast Music, Inc. v. CBS Inc. (1979) California Retail Liquor Dealers Ass'n v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc. (1980) American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Inc. v. Hydrolevel Corp. (1982) Arizona v. Maricopa County Medical Society (1982) Rice v. Norman Williams Co. (1982) Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. (1984) Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 2 v. Hyde (1984) NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (1984) Aspen Skiing Co. v. Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp. (1985) Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. (1985) Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp. (1986) Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc. (1992) Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. California (1993) Spectrum Sports, Inc. v. McQuillan (1993) State Oil Co. v. Khan (1997) Verizon Communications Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP (2004) Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc. (2006) Texaco Inc. v. Dagher (2006) Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (2007) Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. (2007) Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Ross-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co. (2007) Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. linkLine Communications, Inc. (2009) American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League (2010) North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC (2015) Ohio v. American Express Co. (2018) National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston (2021)
Interstate Commerce Act case law	United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association (1897) United States v. ICC (1970)
Clayton Antitrust Act case law	Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering (1921) Fashion Originators' Guild of America v. FTC (1941) Mercoid cases (1944) Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States (1945) Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (1946) United States v. National City Lines Inc. (1948) Standard Oil Co. v. United States (1949) Tampa Electric Co. v. Nashville Coal Co. (1961) Silver v. New York Stock Exchange (1963) United States v. Philadelphia National Bank (1963) United States v. Continental Can Co. (1964) FTC v. Consolidated Foods Corp. (1965) Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp. (1965) FTC v. Dean Foods Co. (1966) Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1971) Hawaii v. Standard Oil Co. of California (1972) Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois (1977) Pfizer Inc. v. Government of India (1978) Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (1993) Apple Inc. v. Pepper (2019)
FTC Act case law	Fashion Originators' Guild of America v. FTC (1941) FTC v. Motion Picture Advertising Service Co. (1953) FTC v. Sperry & Hutchinson Trading Stamp Co. (1972) FTC v. Actavis, Inc. (2013)
Robinson–Patman Act case law	Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp. (1986) Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (1993)
Other cases	Continental Paper Bag Co. v. Eastern Paper Bag Co. (1908) Black & White Taxicab & Transfer Co. v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab & Transfer Co. (1928) Watson v. Buck (1941) National Broadcasting Co. v. United States (1943) Dawson Chemical Co. v. Rohm & Haas Co. (1980) District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman (1983) Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC v. Billing (2007) Comcast Corp. v. Behrend (2013) Animal Science Products v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceuticals (2018)

Other federal
case law

United States v. Motion Picture Patents Co. (1915)
United States v. Consolidated Music Corporation (1922)
United States v. Vehicular Parking Ltd. (1944)
United States v. Alcoa (1945)
Gamco, Inc. v. Providence Fruit & Produce Building, Inc. (1952)
United States v. Morgan (1953)
United States v. Krasnov (1956)
United States v. Huck Mfg. Co. (1965)
Robertson v. National Basketball Ass'n (1977)
SmithKline Corp. v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1978)
United States v. Westinghouse Electric Co. (1981)
United States v. AT&T (1982)
Mid-South Grizzlies v. National Football League (1983)
United States v. Syufy Enterprises (1990)
Wilk v. American Medical Association (1990)
A.D. Bedell Wholesale Co., Inc. v. Philip Morris Inc. (2001)
United States v. Microsoft Corp. (2001)
Fraser v. Major League Soccer (2002)
LePage's, Inc. v. 3M (2003)
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. Intel Corp. (2005)
United States v. Dentsply Int'l, Inc. (2005)
Tritent International Corp. v. Kentucky (2006)
Wallace v. International Business Machines Corp. (2006)
De Beers antitrust litigation (2008)
Redbox Automated Retail LLC v. Universal City Studios LLLP (2009)
Princo Corp. v. ITC (2010)
United States v. Adobe Systems Inc., et al. (2011)
United States v. Apple Inc. (2013)
O'Bannon v. NCAA (2015)
United States v. AT&T (2015)
FTC v. Qualcomm (2020)
New York v. Deutsche Telekom (2020)
Epic Games v. Apple (2021)
Burnett v. National Association of Realtors (2023)
Epic Games v. Google (2023)
United States v. Google LLC (2024)

Ongoing
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Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (2020)
FTC v. Microsoft (2022)
FTC v. Amazon (2023)
United States v. Google LLC (2023)
United States v. Apple Inc. (2024)
United States v. Live Nation Entertainment (2024)

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