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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How Do Contractual Relationships Affect a Firm’s Ability To Compete?
Reprinted From Houston Business Journal, May 7, 2004 Identifying, pursuing, and securing new business and a skilled work force are essential to the growth and prosperity of any business. However, your ability to compete for either may be directly ...
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How Lemon Law Can Help You
Article provided by Aiken & Scoptur, S.C. Please visit our Web site at Aiken & Scoptur, S.C. Special acknowledgement to attorney Vincent P. Megna. When your new car does not work as it should, you expect the automaker to step in and make it right ...
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How to Write Readable Credit Forms
Introduction PlanningComposingDesigningTesting and EvaluatingIntroduction If your company offers consumer credit, you probably communicate with your customers using many different standardized forms and notices. These may range from short notices to ...
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If Kodak is Just a “Summary Judgment Case,” Why are we Still Discussing it Three Years Later?
Groups that do not like landmark cases sometimes go into a state of denial. For example, many fruitless post-decision battles have been fought against Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973). Now added to ...
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Ignorance is not Bliss:The Danger of “Hidden” Franchises
Franchising is used in a wide variety of business arrangements in over 70 different business sectors--from employment agencies to quick service restaurants to telecommunications services. As such, franchises assume many different forms. Frequently ...
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Implications of U.S. Supreme Court Decision that Vertically Imposed Under Rule of Reason, Not Per Se Rule
On November 4, 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court decided State Oil Company v. Barkat U. Khan, ___ U.S. ___, 118 S.Ct. 275, 66 USLW 4001, 1997 WL 679424, 97 C.D.O.S. 8447 (1997). The issues before the Court were whether State Oil's controls on the maximum ...
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In Re High Fructose Corn Syrup: A New Form of Chicago School Education
Labels are not always a good tool for handicapping litigation. The Chicago School is a major school of thought in contemporary antitrust law. Its central premise is that antitrust laws serve only to facilitate market efficiency. Under this theory ...
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Increasing Mobility of Technical Employees Raises Intellectual Property Stakes
Some of your company's most important assets may be locked in the minds of key technical employees. If you do not want to lose those assets when employees leave, you need to protect your company with appropriate employment agreements. Because of the ...
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Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Claims on the Rise in New Mexico
Federal antitrust statutes provide a cause of action for price-fixing allegations only to direct purchasers from the alleged wrongdoer. See Illinois Brick v. Illinois, 431 U.S. 720 (1977). Thus, if price fixing occurs among manufacturers of ...
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Information Costs, Lifecycle Costs, Switching Costs, and Lock-In
This article will analyze the role of information costs, lifecycle costs, switching costs, and lock-in in the context of market power determinations under the antitrust laws. The article will begin with a detailed analysis of how the Supreme Court ...
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