On 23 June 2008, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear the Ninth Circuit´s recent antitrust decision in linkLine Communications v. SBC California, Inc., (503 F.3d 876 (9th Cir. 2007)). At issue is the viability of a price squeeze claim under section 2 of the Sherman Act against vertically integrated local exchange carriers (ILECs). The price squeeze claim in question was defined by the Ninth Circuit as a situation where a vertically integrated company sets its prices at the upstream (or wholesale) level so high that its customers cannot compete with it at the downstream (or retail) level.