a powerful dealer or group (cartel) of dealers. Although a vertical distribution restraint resembles a dealer cartel in … profits a dealer cartel would seek. Accordingly, a knowledgeable and un-coerced manufacturer who restricts rivalry among … plaintiff to prove that the challenged restraint is explained solely and exclusively on cartel, dealer power, or other non …

examines cartel organization, concluding that the Supreme Court was correct to identify the issue as who is controlled, rather … successful cartels function by taking control away from the individual members and giving it to a single organization. A business … organization such as a corporation becomes an ideal vehicle for cartel, because such organizations are charged with maximizing the …

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An important purpose of the antitrust merger law is to arrest certain anticompetitive practices or outcomes in their … problematic mergers are identified there is no need to condemn mergers that fall below that threshold. In the future merger law … predict post-merger performance. As a result, the feared post-merger conduct has not occurred either and the evidence pertains …