California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Vinci v. Waste Management, Inc., 36 Cal.App.4th 1811, 43 Cal.Rptr.2d 337 (Cal. App. 1995):
It is clear from the complaint that at the time plaintiff lost his job plaintiff was neither a consumer nor a competitor in the market in which trade was restrained. Plaintiff was an employee. The injury he suffered, the loss of his job, was not the type of loss the antitrust statute was intended to forestall. (Fallis v. Pendleton Woolen Mills,
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