…policies set by the prior administration. In a May 2009 announcement, Assistant Attorney General Varney withdrew a September 2008, Antitrust Division report, entitled “Competition and Monopoly: Single-Firm Conduct Under Section…
…direct purchaser to indirect purchasers. Therefore, under federal antitrust law and now under the California Cartwright Act, an antitrust defendant is generally unable to defeat liability by asserting a pass-on…
…and Visa have incentives that are aligned in precisely the same way as the managers of an efficient cartel are aligned. They do not have to worry about the deviating,…
…that such arrangements are often not anticompetitive and may in fact be procompetitive. In Leegin, the Court performed a similar analysis of minimum resale pricing agreements, albeit from an economic…
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