Supreme Court Narrows ‘State Action’ Immunity From Antitrust Laws

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The U.S. Supreme Court has referred to the federal antitrust laws as “a charter of freedom [having] a generality and adaptability comparable to that found to be desirable in constitutional provisions.” The antitrust laws are generally broadly worded, and they have been subject to various interpretations and reinterpretations over the past century. Certain types of anti-competitive activity, such as horizontal price fixing, have been deemed so obviously harmful to the marketplace as to be declared per se illegal. Others are judged by the so-called “rule of reason” analysis, in which courts weigh the effect on a defined market of the alleged anti-competitive activity.

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