Your assignment
Role: Economic analyst supporting counsel with a source-bounded market and evidence memorandum
Deliverable: A two-column economic/legal claim map and a 900-word memorandum preserving facts, procedural posture, doctrine, remedy, and current-law boundary.
Evidence basis: public records
Evaluation criteria
- primary source control (25%): Cites the opinion precisely and distinguishes historical record, reasoning, holding, and remedy.
- economic evidence (30%): Defines the market question and organizes share, entry, conduct, duration, substitution, and direct evidence without a share-only verdict.
- legal boundary (25%): Maps the Sherman Act claim and 1911 posture without presenting the opinion as current comprehensive doctrine.
- communication (20%): States supported conclusions, inferences, unknowns, and next evidence in decision-ready language.
Assignment
The board asks whether the 1911 decision proves that “being a monopoly was illegal and breakup followed automatically.” Replace that sentence with a reviewable map.
Identify the court, claim, historical facts, challenged conduct, reasoning, holding, and remedy. On a separate economic track, identify market-boundary, substitution, share, entry, duration, conduct, and direct-evidence questions. Connect the tracks only where the source permits.
Do not convert modern terminology into a quotation from the opinion, treat every large share as unlawful, or use a historical holding as current advice.