U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2011

The court affirmed dismissal of the trustee’s Sherman Act claims because the complaint did not plausibly allege an agreement among the factors, as opposed to information sharing and independent credit decisions.

The Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of Malleus’s § 1983 claim because the information she said was disclosed—her voluntarily shared opinion about another person—was not protected by either recognized category of Fourteenth Amendment privacy.