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False Analogies To Predatory Pricing, Christopher R. Leslie
False Analogies To Predatory Pricing, Christopher R. Leslie
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Philosophers and policymakers have long cautioned against comparing incomparable objects or concepts. Scores of judicial opinions caution judges and litigants against comparing apples to oranges. The original idiom, as recited by such sixteenth-century luminaries as Sir Thomas More and William Shakespeare, admonished against equating apples and oysters,4 two items unlikely to be mistaken for each other given their obvious dissimilarities in color, texture, smell, and immediate edibility. Over time, oysters were replaced by oranges and the expression evolved to caution against confusing two types of fruit, which do in fact share some similar qualities but are quite distinct and, thus, …