U.S. Sup. Ct.;
13-271
Respondents, a group of manufacturers, hospitals, and other institutions that buy natural gas directly from interstate pipelines, sued petitioner interstate pipelines, claiming that the pipelines had engaged in behavior that violated state antitrust laws. In particular, respondents alleged that petitioners reported false information to the natural-gas indices on which respondents’ natural-gas contracts were based. The indices affected not only retail natural-gas prices, but also wholesale natural-gas prices.
