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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Schroeder denies an agricultural products firm’s motion to dismiss allegations of antitrust violations brought by the Federal Trade Commission and 12 state governments on behalf of farmers. The commission and states claim that the firm excludes generic pesticide products competition using loyalty discount programs, through which it offers its distributors considerable lump sums of up to millions of dollars to limit their purchase of generic products. This, in turn, allegedly hurts farmers financially as 90% of them purchase the products from these distributors. The firm continues this practice even after its products’ patents expire. The firm maintains that its practices, because they are not directly price gouging, are not monopolizing nor causing competitors injury. However, the commission and states sufficiently evidence the exact opposite, that the firm has railroaded distributors and consumers, mostly farmers, into having no other choice but to buy its products.