On January 31, 2017, President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to
fill the vacant seat at the Supreme Court of the United States left
by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. As a federal judge for the US
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, a former private
practitioner, and an adjunct professor of antitrust law at the
University of Colorado, Gorsuch has an extensive background in
antitrust.
In 1996, Gorsuch joined the law firm Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd
Evans & Figel, where his practice included both plaintiff and
defense litigation in antitrust matters. Gorsuch and his co-counsel
helped secure a judgment of $1.05 billion in trebled damages for
tobacco company Conwood Co. after a jury found that defendant
United States Tobacco Co. engaged in anticompetitive marketing
practices. Gorsuch also defended telecommunications company SBC
Communications, Inc. during his tenure at Kellogg when a rival
company alleged that SBC set forth an illegal tying arrangement.
The US District
