Its monopoly position is protected by a Congress that mostly shields it from the Sherman Antitrust Act.
More than likely an architectural blueprint for finding that Microsoft did indeed willfully and repeatedly violate the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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He ridiculed the prevailing legal view of the time that the Sherman Antitrust Act protected small merchants against large.
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Depending on your perspective, this gives Google a great competitive advantage, or raises questions about the applicability of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Costco has argued that Washington's system flouts the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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For nearly 120 years, the Sherman Antitrust Act has been the main vehicle through which the government and private parties have regulated the so-called anticompetitive behavior of corporate America.
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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.
Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, Lynn Westmoreland, R-Georgia, and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, introduced what they called the NCAA Football Championship Equity Resolution, which stated that the BCS was unfair and a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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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Class actions involving credit reporting laws, debt collection and federal laws like the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act also can probably proceed, although the rules in this area get a little trickier.
Judge Jackson ruled today that Microsoft violated two sections of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and his ruling dealing with the company maintaining its monopoly through predatory behavior is the strongest part of his verdict, Hayter said.
In the suit, O'Bannon and his supporters argue that athletes are crucial parts of a college-sports machine that is worth billions annually and that barring them from reaping some of those revenues violates the Sherman Antitrust Act by artificially fixing prices.
The defendants were accused of violating the Sherman Act and Clayton Act antitrust laws by conspiring to eliminate competition for labor, depriving workers of job mobility and hundreds of millions of dollars of compensation.
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And, if so, has he both the evidence and the stomach to file a broad Sherman act antitrust case against the world's most powerful software company?
Because the NCAA is a trade association governed by its members, its threat to ban a given member is generally subject to antitrust scrutiny under Section 1 of the Sherman Act.
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Some have posited that because Section 5 is broader than the Sherman Act, it gives the FTC a trump card over these unfavorable antitrust decisions.
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So even though a group-granted exclusive license to a single manufacturer may be subject to antitrust scrutiny, such a license is not necessarily a violation of the Sherman Act.
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