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Antitrust laws do not prevent companies from using the legal system or political process to attempt to reduce competition. Most of these activities are considered legal under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine. Also, regulations by states may be immune under the Parker immunity doctrine. [62] Professional Real Estate Investors, Inc., v.
All defendants were found liable for damages caused by engaging in a price-fixing conspiracy that required home sellers to pay more for real estate brokerage services. Court membership; Judge sitting: Stephen R. Bough: Laws applied; Sherman Antitrust Act: Keywords
Federal prosecutors and several states have filed suit against RealPage, alleging that its software enables landlords to share confidential information and align rents, violating antitrust laws ...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's merger-busting, antitrust enforcement powers are coming under threat as conservatives look to harness President-elect Donald Trump's support for limiting ...
NAR claimed that the defendants “conspired to require home sellers to pay the broker representing the buyer of their homes, and to pay an inflated amount, in violation of federal antitrust law ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection. The FTC shares jurisdiction over federal civil antitrust law enforcement with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
Rand, who described herself as "a radical for capitalism", [52] opposed antitrust law not only on economic grounds but also morally, as a violation of property rights, asserting that the "meaning and purpose" of antitrust law is "the penalizing of ability for being ability, the penalizing of success for being success, and the sacrifice of ...
Antitrust enforcement in the United States began to decline in the 1970s, which coincided with the rise of the laissez-faire "consumer welfare standard" as the dominant approach to antitrust issues. In the 2010s, concerns surrounding corporate concentration and wealth inequality led to a revived interest in antitrust enforcement. [ 8 ]