SCM Corp. v. Advance Business Systems & Supply Co.
SCM Corp. v. Advance Bus. Sys. & Supply Co., 397 U.S. 920 (1970)
Opinion of the Court
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C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied.
How later courts describe this case
Explanatory parentheticals written by citing courts — 7 in all; the most informative distinct ones are shown.
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(upholding a delay of three months where only prejudice shown was that the defendants could not recall details of the days in the distant past; no special circumstances)
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(Clayton § 3 is not applieable when either the tying or tied product is a service; here, service was defendant’s maintenance of its photocopy machines)
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(written contract, coupled with threatening conduct designed to enforce a tie-in violated Section 1)
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(The cost of materials to accompany testimony is taxable “only if their preparation was ‘necessary in order to have the court understand what may otherwise have been on the record, but what would have been incomprehensible to the inexpert mind.’ ”)
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(upholding a delay of six months)
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(damages — $16,-714; fees — $35,875)
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