Southern District of Georgia Judge Randell Hall dismissed with prejudice a Real-estate broker’s suit alleging that the Greater Augusta Association of Realtors Inc. (GAAR) violated the Sherman Act by adopting rules that discriminated against agents who operated solely online. Separately, Keller alleged that the rules violated a consent judgment in an earlier case. There the National Association of Realtors—the parent company of the GAAR- agreed with the USDOJ that it would not adopt rules favoring one group of realtors over another.
Judge Hall dismissed the claim because Keller failed to plead that the policy restrained competition in the realtor market. Also, the court dismissed the consent-judgment violation claim for lack of standing .