04/10/2008

NAR Files Motion to Dismiss Antitrust Lawsuit

The National Association of REALTORS® on December 6 asked a federal district court to dismiss an antitrust complaint by the Department of Justice against NAR’s policy governing the display of multiple listing service information on brokers’ Internet sites on the grounds that the government sued over provisions in a predecessor policy that has since been rescinded and that the new policy that replaced it is clearly pro-competitive.

The motion filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois claims that “opt out” provisions in the NAR policy do nothing more than permit individual entities to make independent decisions whether to authorize the display of their listings on competitors’ Web sites.

NAR has submitted these documents to the court:

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