NOUN
- law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
How To Use antitrust law In A Sentence
- Still, for the medium term, either the government needs to scutinize refinery activity much more closely, adopt new regulatory authority and aggressively enforce antitrust laws, or it must intervene to deconcentrate the market. Robert Weissman: What To Do About the Price of Oil
- Supreme Court Monday declined to review a ruling that reinstated an antitrust lawsuit alleging major record labels conspired to fix prices and terms under which music would be sold over the Internet. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- Apparently antitrust lawyers don’t exist in bluebook world? The Volokh Conspiracy » The Case for Abolishing the Bluebook
- The NFL could unilaterally institute its final offer to the union -- in that case what the clubs would pay players on what used to be called the "taxi" squads -- without having to worry about the implications of the antitrust laws, which would have made the collusive decision of the owners a clear violation of law. Roger I. Abrams: Eighth Circuit Heading in the Wrong Direction in Football Dispute
- There are a lot of competition restriction stipulations in the labor agreement of NBA, but the application of the antitrust law can be dodged by means of labor exemption.
- Agribusiness mergers often don't create a big enough share of a market to trigger antitrust laws.
- In a stunning reversal of laissez-faire and a repudiation of the American devotion to free and competitive markets, the NIRA and the National Recovery Administration NRA, which put the law into practice, suspended all federal antitrust laws and created cartels of businesses in every major industry that—instead of market forces—decided how much products would cost, how much workers would make, and how much companies would produce. A Renegade History of the United States
- But the same could have been said by the Robber Barons of old whose predatory pricing ushered in a host of antitrust laws designed to protect markets from monopolism. Diane Francis: Amazon, the Latter-Day Robber Baron
- That's free enterprise, not a violation of antitrust law, which is defined as a group monopolizing trade or commerce through unreasonable methods.
- Congress tried to help the farm sector by exempting it from federal antitrust law.