The U.S. Supreme Court Monday decided not to review two cases dealing with an area of antitrust law that governs price-fixing matters, particularly related to electronic components manufactured in Asia. The Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act has been interpreted differently in various courts, creating confusion for litigators dealing with antitrust claims—confusion that will remain for now, since the court denied certiorari in the two cases.

“The statute itself is just hopelessly worded,” Litigation and Antitrust partner Jacob Sorensen told The Recorder. “So the courts have been struggling for 30 years to interpret it.”