The following excerpt is from County of Tuolumne v. Sonora Commun. Hosp., 236 F.3d 1148 (9th Cir. 2001):
Defendants argue that plaintiffs' tying claim must fail under the rule of reason because plaintiffs have proven no more than injury to one competitor, not to competition itself. This court has held that "the elimination of a single competitor, standing alone, does not prove anticompetitive effect." Austin v. McNamara,
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