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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GVDammerung" data-source="post: 3619023" data-attributes="member: 33060">Like every Supreme Court decision, this one will be applied and interpreted by lower courts.  What's more, the decision itself allows for individual situations to be individually analyzed.  As a consequence, this decision will likely be limited by some courts but not others, eventually resulting in a conflict in the circuits that will send the matter back to the Supremes.At the same time, consumer watchdog groups are no doubt going on alert and will be quick to bring attention to price manipulation adverse to consumer interests.Politicians love to be the hero for constituents on pocket book issues, so there is a receptive political audience for seeing the decision limited.Of course, Big Business can sway some of these politicians but Big Business is likely to be split on this issue and unable to present a united front.  No one tells Walmart how to price - no one.  Amazon has similar interests to protect.   And there are likely other businesses whose oxen will be less obviously gored by this decision.  Money will flow to all sides of the argument.Unless the 2008 sees the election of a chimpanzee with an amen congress, this decision will get whittled down to size.Dancy is in error.  Everything did not change.  It only appears to have changed at the moment.  Patience is a virtue, one fewer and fewer business gurus today possess as they are too woried about the quarterlies to be able to plan much more than 18 months ahead, if that.</blockquote>

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