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Sherman Act Horizontal Agreements

Troutman Pepper Locke

Navigating 4th Circ.'s Antitrust Burden In Hybrid Relationships

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On Nov. 12, the U.S. Supreme Court declined certiorari for the U.S. v. Brewbaker decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, leaving undisturbed the ruling that heightens the burden on antitrust prosecutors...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Antitrust Laws and ESG Shareholder Engagement

I. Introduction - Shareholder activism to further environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals faces intense antitrust scrutiny in the United States. Some members of Congress and state attorneys general claim these...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week At The Ninth: Housing Discrimination and Group Boycotts

This week, the Court addresses the constitutionality of a law protecting housing access for people with criminal histories, and the elements of a per se unlawful group boycott under the Sherman Antitrust Act....more

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Recent Actions Highlight That Price Fixing Reaches Beyond Agreements on the Ultimate Price

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Price-fixing agreements among horizontal competitors raise significant antitrust concerns under Section 1 of the Sherman Act....more

Carlton Fields

So You Want to Enter the Cannabis Industry — Antitrust Basics for the New Market Entrant

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The cannabis industry is booming. Legal pot is now a more than $10 billion industry in the United States, supplying hundreds of thousands of American jobs. As states continue the trend toward legalization, and the federal...more

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How China Deals with the Diverging Approaches to Monopoly Agreements

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Over the first decade of China's Antimonopoly Law, we have seen a divergence between the approaches adopted by the Chinese antimonopoly enforcement agencies and the Chinese courts towards agreements that restrain trade; what...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Sixth Circuit: “Single-Network” Hospitals Not Exempt from Section One Scrutiny

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On March 22, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit allowed a claim to proceed under § 1 of the Sherman Act against four hospitals acting as a single network under a joint operating agreement. Med. Center at...more

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What to Expect in 2016 from the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division: Critical Legal Advice to Japanese Companies and...

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With over 50 Japanese executives charged and more than 30 Japanese companies having faced criminal charges and having paid some $4 billion in fines since 2010, you would expect that all Japanese companies and their executives...more

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