These cases involve a complex web of federal laws and legal principles, including the patent system established under the Constitution, antitrust law, and the Hatch-Waxman Act, a 1984 law that was intended to give generic manufacturers an incentive to challenge patents.
In that case, White and the four other named plaintiffs alleged that a number of labor practices in the NFL violated antitrust law: the right of first refusal, the college draft system and the standard NFL contract, to name a few.
Long story short, American Needle Inc. argued that the NFL violated antitrust law because all 32 NFL teams worked together to freeze it out of the NFL-licensed-brand-hat-making business when they gave that exclusive right to Reebok for ten years.
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Regardless of whether they knew it, the conspirators were violating the Sherman Antitrust Act, the federal law that seeks to protect free and vibrant competition in the United States.
Sirius XM Radio is facing a class action suit filed by a nationwide group of the company subscribers that alleges antitrust law infringement because the company has abused its monopoly position and increased its fees by 30%.
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As information becomes a more central part of the economy perhaps the central part of the economy antitrust law must develop new techniques directed at the particular problems that it presents.
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Last month, Pennsylvania sued the NCAA under antitrust law.
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But that may change, and this lawsuit, which is already causing a lot of trouble for the LBO funds, may be the vehicle that brings buyouts into the world of antitrust law.
The NFL was hoping for broader antitrust law protection, but the result is not surprising.
Even liberal Justice Steven Breyer questioned why the merchants had to hire expensive experts in arbitration, where the arbitrators themselves would presumably have expertise in antitrust law and could streamline the whole process.
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The fact is that antitrust law has moved away from this assumption for decades.
Furthermore, the settlement of the investigation allows antitrust and law enforcement to remain relevant in a fast-moving high tech industry.
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The DOJ, using antitrust law, should investigate Microsoft's mergers and disallow some of them -- that's what the law is for.
It is a cardinal principal of antitrust that the law does not turn on a firm simply because it wins by building a better mousetrap.
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Experts said the FTC's case rests on whether Intel's dominance of the PC chip industry is so great that antitrust law should take precedence over the intellectual property laws that Intel says should govern its behavior.
Havighurst has taught courses in health care law and policy, antitrust law and economic regulation at the Duke University School of Law since 1964.
It has been rigorous in the development of antitrust theory and an energetic enforcer of the law.
Many free market critics of the FTC have stated that the fast-paced nature of the tech industry has rendered antitrust law as ineffective or even obsolete.
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If you run a hospital or a car company or an Ivy League university, antitrust law restricts the information you can share with other firms in your industry.
Theory ran afoul of antitrust law in the Carecore case, however, where executives there were accused of refusing to deal with New York-area radiologists who provided upright MRIs, a new system that allows patients to be positioned in weight-bearing posture to see what might be causing them pain.
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In the 1980s, that dynamic changed as the infusion of law and economics principles transformed the foundations of antitrust enforcement.
Although, at least in theory, the FTC has the authority to go beyond traditional antitrust analysis and case law when using its authority, the courts have been unkind when the agency has chosen to do so largely because it has never issued clear guidance on what actually constitutes unfair methods of competition.
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Antitrust law will require the court to compare the current system to the old system.
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" Millions will be spent litigating how broad the market is, " said Herbert Hovenkamp, an antitrust professor at the University of Iowa College of Law.
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Specifically, the group of fans is alleging that the Defendants have violated U.S antitrust law by entering into a series of agreements that eliminate, restrict, and prevent off-field competition.
On the other end of the spectrum, he says, are laws like the Sherman Antitrust Act, which amounted to two handwritten pages when Congress passed it in 1890, laying the foundation for U.S. antitrust law.
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Over time, the black-out rule has been unpopular and the subject of several antitrust challenges in courts of law.
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The case hinged upon a fundamental concept in antitrust law: It is illegal for a company to use its domination of one market to try to take over another.
While antitrust lawyers say the missing documents probably won't give AMD a decisive legal edge, shifts in antitrust law could make Intel vulnerable.
At one level, the Google matter raises a host of interesting questions involving antitrust law and economics.
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