Indirect Purchaser v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

IN RE DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS No. 21-15125

MEMORY (DRAM) INDIRECT

PURCHASER ANTITRUST LITIGATION, D.C. No. 4:18-cv-02518-

JSW

INDIRECT PURCHASER PLAINTIFFS,

Plaintiff-Appellant,

OPINION

v.

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.;

SAMSUNG SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.;

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.;

MICRON SEMICONDUCTOR

PRODUCTS, INC.; SK HYNIX, INC.; SK

HYNIX AMERICA, INC.,

Defendants-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Jeffrey S. White, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 7, 2021 Pasadena, California

Filed March 7, 2022 IN RE DRAM INDIRECT PURCHASER ANTITRUST LITIGATION

Before: William A. Fletcher and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and Cathy Ann Bencivengo, * District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Bencivengo

SUMMARY **

Antitrust

The panel affirmed the district court’s dismissal of an action alleging an antitrust conspiracy under Section 1 of the Sherman Act by manufacturers of dynamic random access memory, a type of semiconductor memory used to store data in digital electronic devices.

The panel held…