Book Review: Antitrust Civil Jury Instructions

• Author: Thomas M. Scanlon
• Date: 01 June 1973
• Published date: 01 June 1973
• DOI: 10.1177/0003603X7301800215
• Subject Matter: Book Reviews

BOOK

REVIEWS

Section of Antitrust Law, American

Bar

Association, Anti-

trust Civil

Jury

Instructions, Chicago: American

Bar

Association (1972),

285

pp.,

$12.50.

Not too long ago a senior

partner

of one of the most

prestigious antitrust law firms in the country called this re-

viewer stating he was about to

try

atreble damage action

and was seeking copies of instructions which had been used

in

prior

cases. This incident emphasized the fact

that

at

that time there was no published collection of treble damage

jury

instructions other than one of very limited circulation

which included only instructions used in movie eases,"

Antitrust Civil

Jury

Instructions, a collection of such in-

structions published by the Section of Antitrust Law of the

American

Bar

Association, furnishes the exact help so des-

perately needed by any lawyer responsible for the trial of

atreble damage action.

It

is another publication of the

Antitrust Section which represents not only the responsive-

ness of

that

Section to the needs of the bench and the bar,

but also the high professional standards of the Section's

members.

The book represents many years of collecting instructions

from

antitrust

lawyers throughout the country, the analysis

of those instructions, adiscriminating selection of the best

for use in the volumes and an arrangement which renders

them of the greatest practical use.

The typical prospective

juror

usually has some nodding

acquaintance with the concepts of negligence, contributory

negligence, warranty, disclaimer and the basic principles of

1J. Caskey and B. Scott,' Charges to the Jury, The Ad Press, Ltd.

• The reviewer should disclose that sixty-four of the instructions

are from one case in which he acted as the defense counsel for the

principal defendants.

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