ROSS-SIMMONS HARDWOOD Lumber Co., the longest-running alder sawmill in the Pacific Northwest, was profitable for most of its 40 years in business. But it shut down permanently in 2001. Was it a victim of its own inefficiencies or of a market predator
A federal appellate court upheld a jury verdict that Weyerhaeuser Co., a forest products company, engaged in anti-competitive conduct including predatory bidding-paying too much for materials to drive out competition-to monopolize the alder industry in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act. That verdict resulted in nearly $80 million in damages for Ross-Simmons.
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