Antitrust and Trade Regulation
Many people have never heard of antitrust laws, but enforcement of these laws saves consumers millions and even billions of dollars a year. The Federal Government enforces three major Federal antitrust laws, and most states also have their own. The three major Federal antitrust laws are The Sherman Antitrust Act, The Clayton Act, and The Federal Trade Commission Act.This is FindLaw’s collection of Antitrust and Trade Regulation articles, part of the Business Operations section of the Corporate Counsel Center. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.
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Antitrust and Trade Regulation Articles
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New Jersey Law Favors Free Competition by Former Employees in the Absence of a Valid, Written Restrictive Covenant, But an Employee may not Violate His Duty of Loyalty by Soliciting Customers or Co-Em
Under New Jersey law a former employee may properly and legally compete with his former employer, in the absence of a contractual covenant not to compete. The former employee may properly and legally solicit the customers of his former employer in ...
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New Jersey’s Hint Bill Advances Administrative Simplification
The State of New Jersey has enacted S-323, legislation intended to promote and standardize electronic data interchanges ("EDI") in healthcare claims transactions. The legislation is based upon recommendations first made in a study of Healthcare ...
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New Jersey Supreme Court Holds That Employee’s Termination For Refusing To Enter Into Non-Compete Agreement Is Not Actionable Because It Does Not Violate Public Policy
In an important decision favoring employers, the New Jersey Supreme Court held, on May 4, 2004, that an employee did not have a cause of action for unlawful retaliatory discharge under the New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act ("CEPA") or ...
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New Requirements for Obtaining and Using Credit Reports
On September 30,1997, the Consumer Credit Reporting Reform Act went into effect. The CCRRA imposes new requirements on employers who use credit reports to evaluate applicants for employment, or to evaluate current employees for promotion or ...
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Non-Compete Agreements Protect Competitive Edge, TOO
A recent column about preventing trade secret theft in today's competitive business environment focused on drafting and enforcing agreements not to disclose confidential information. Another tool available for protecting trade secrets is the ...
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Non-Competition Restrictive Covenants and Territorial Limitations
It is important to keep abreast of the ever-evolving law pertaining to non-competition restrictive covenants. Mid-level marketers of petroleum product often encounter or need to consider such covenants in a) employment contracts with key personnel ...
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Noncompete Agreements
In Moores Pump and Supply, Inc. v. Laneaux, 727 So.2d 695 (La. App. 3d Cir. 1999), the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal upheld a preliminary injunction against a former employee of Moores Pump and Supply, Inc. (Moores). The former employee ...
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Noncompetition Agreements: New Trends and Old Dilemmas
From a litigation standpoint, it seems that noncompetition agreements have recently eclipsed almost every other type of contract executed in the employer-employee context. New judicial pronouncements and interpretations of the operative statute, La ...
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Noncompetition Agreements
The desire of employers to keep their employees from competing with them has been a source of much litigation. In a typical arrangement, the employer requires the employee to sign an agreement that prevents the employee from engaging in specified ...
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On-Line Privacy Protection Rules Take Effect
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) becomes effective April 21, 2000. Many companies are concerned about the potential for legal liability associated with the posting of privacy policies on their websites. The new regulations apply ...
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