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Judge dismisses X lawsuit accusing advertisers of illegal boycott (www.reuters.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/business@lemmy.world
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Surprising exactly no one, "a U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp's antitrust lawsuit ​that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and major ‌companies including Mars, CVS Health (CVS.N), and Colgate-Palmolive (CL.N), of illegally boycotting billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s social media company. U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle in the federal ​court in Dallas said, X failed to show it had ​suffered any harm under federal antitrust laws."

While I'm sure Elon would have preferred to win this, the chilling effect from filing this suit in the first place was probably a good enough win for him anyway.

[edit: removed 'opens new tab' stuff from copy-paste]

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I can't read it, was it dismissed with or without prejudice? Because that ugly fucker will try again if you let him.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    It was with prejudice:

    Boyle wrote in her order ⁠that "the ​very nature of the alleged conspiracy ​does not state an antitrust claim, and the court therefore has no qualm dismissing ​with prejudice."

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 7 months ago

    [U.S. District Judge Jane ] Boyle wrote in her order ⁠that "the ​very nature of the alleged conspiracy ​does not state an antitrust claim, and the court therefore has no qualm dismissing ​with prejudice."

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