justice scalia dissented, joined in part by justices o'connor, kennedy, and thomas. scalia acknowledged that the federal courts had jurisdiction over this case, and that the sherman act could be applied extraterritorially, so long as the foreign acts complained of were directed into the united states. nevertheless, scalia contended that the actions of the u.s. courts showed a lack of judicial respect for the comprehensive regulatory scheme enacted by the uk. although congress may have intended the sherman act to apply to acts originating abroad, it was unreasonable to assume that congress intended to apply the antitrust laws where they would be disruptive of another country's legislative scheme.