The 6th Circuit's opinion in In re Southeastern Milk Antitrust Litigation usefully advances the quick-look protocol by asserting that like the quick-look rule itself, burdens and presumptions in such cases exist along a continuum, according to attorneys Jeffery Cross and Deborah Bornstein, both antitrust Partners in the Firm's Litigation Practice Group. As a result, district courts may soon begin to tailor burdens and burden-shifting paradigms on a case-by-case basis, wrote the attorneys in an article they co-authored for Westlaw Journal Antitrust titled, "Streamlining the Rule of Reason: The 6th Circuit Joins the Trend," which was published in the April 2014 edition.
A PDF of the article is attached.