The judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the defendants’ motions for summary judgment in this magazine distribution antitrust case. Retained by Cravath, Swaine & Moore For this antitrust case related to magazine distribution, counsel for a publisher defendant, Time Inc. and its subsidiary, retained Cornerstone Research and Kenneth Elzinga, professor at the University of Virginia and Cornerstone Research senior advisor. The primary plaintiff was a major U.S. magazine wholesaler, Anderson News LLC. In 2009, Anderson News announced to magazine publishers that it was adding a surcharge per copy it distributed, and would also require the publishers to bear Anderson News’s cost of carrying inventory. When magazine publishers switched to wholesalers who w

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