Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc.

Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 26, 2007 Decided June 28, 2007
Full case name	Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc.
Docket no.	06-480
Citations	551 U.S. 877 (more) 127 S. Ct. 2705; 168 L. Ed. 2d 623
Case history
Prior	Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Holding
Vertical price restraints are to be judged by the rule of reason, rather than being treated as illegal per se.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Case opinions
Majority	Kennedy, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito
Dissent	Breyer, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg
Laws applied
Sherman Antitrust Act
This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings
Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co. (1911)

Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., 551 U.S. 877 (2007), is a US antitrust case in which the United States Supreme Court overruled Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co.^[1] Dr Miles had ruled that vertical price restraints were illegal per se under Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Leegin established that the legality of such restraints are to be judged based on the rule of reason.