So this got some traction overnight. A few details:
Much of the filing hinges on the claim that, through their 2013 code of ethics, the publisher’s industry association agreed to set the price of peer review at zero.
I’m not an antitrust lawyer, but the core case law here seems pretty strong. In particular, in National Society of Professional Engineers, the Supreme Court said “a code of ethics can still be illegal price fixing”: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1917928030443042074
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