Selected Antitrust Cases: Landmark Decisions

by Irwin M. Stelzer

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025603222X
• ISBN13: 9780256032222
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing
• Length: 604 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

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Important Anti-Trust Cases in U.S. Legal History

From Contents: I - Monopolization and Direct Conspiracy 1. Monopolization 'Standard Oil of NJ' and the Adoption of the Rule of reason Application of the Rule in 'United States Steel.Alcoa' and the 'New Sherman Act.' A modified Rule of Reason - 'The Shoe Machinery Case.' Economic Performance and the Law - 'The Cellophane' Case. Grinnell and the Reaffirmation of Alcoa. The Preservation of the Competitive process - Berkey and AT & T. Predatory Pricing Defined and Distinguished - CalComp and 'Barry Wright' 2 - Direct Price-Fixing Agreements The 'Reasonableness' of Price-Fixing Agreements - Addyston Pipe, Chicago Board of Trade and Trenton Potteries. Market Power, Distress Conditions, and the Law - Appalachian Coals and Socony-Vacuum. Price-Fixing and the Exchange of Information - 'Container Corporation of America' and "U.S> Gypsum. Professional Engineers, ASCAP and NCAA' - 'Reasonableness' Revised. The Per Se Rule Reaffirmed - Catalano. <br /> <br /> <br />II - Indirect Conspiracies and Oligopoly <br /> <br />3 - Trade Association Activities <br />'The Cement 'Case' - The Multiple Basing Point System as an Unfair Method of Competition. Permissible Activities - 'Tag Manufacturers' and 'Maricopa' <br /> <br />4 - Oligopoly- 'American Tobacco' Conscious Parallelism Defined 'Triangle Conduit.' Conscious Parallelism Distinguished - 'Theatre Enterprises.' Conscious Parallelism, and Conspiracy Reexamined - 'Ethyl.' <br /> <br />III - Mergers and the Problems They Pose <br /> <br />5 - Merges and Market Power <br />'Thatcher Manufacturing Company' and the Attenuation of Section 7 of the Clayton Act. Revival of Antimerger Policy - 'Brown Shoe' and the Amended Clayton Act. "Von's Grover' and the Doctrine of Incipiency. The Measurement of Competitive Impact - ' General Dynamics' and 'Waste Management' <br /> <br />6 - Mergers and Product/Market Extension <br />'Consolidated Foods' and reciprocity. Deep Pockets and Potential Competition - 'Procter & Gamble, Budd' and the Toehold Acquisition. Potential Competition and Market Extension - 'Falstaff' and 'Marine Bancorporation.' <br /> <br />7 - Joint Ventures - A Form of Merger <br />The Issue of Equal Access - 'Terminal Railroad.' Joint Ventures and Potential Competition - 'Penn-Olin' <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />PART IV - Trade Practices <br /> <br />8 - Price Discrimination <br />Quantity Discounts and the Reasonable Possibility of Competitive Injury - 'Morton Salt,' Price Discrimination in Good Faith - 'Standard of Indiana,' ' Standard of Indiana' Revisited and 'Falls City, Borden' and the Issue of 'Like Grade and Quality.' Predatory Competition - 'Utah Pie' and American Excelsior, A & P and Buyer-Induced Price Discrimination <br /> <br />9 - Tying Devices <br />Tied Sales in the Presence of 'Sufficient' but not Monopolistic Economic Power - 'Northern Pacific' and 'Fortner,' The 'New Business' Justification, Per Se versus Rule-of-Reason Treatment - 'Hyde' <br /> <br />10 - Exclus