Foreword

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FOREWORD

The American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law is proud to

publish its third edition of the State Antitrust Enforcement Handbook.

The Handbook complements the Section’s multivolume treatise, State

Antitrust Practice and Statutes, which analyzes substantive antitrust law

on a state-by-state basis.

This Handbook focuses on the antitrust enforcement practices of

state attorneys general. The Handbook summarizes the substantive law

behind state antitrust enforcement, while also analyzing the roles and

priorities of state enforcers.

The third edition, like the previous editions, offers guidance to

counsel who interact with state antitrust enforcers. This latest edition

includes an updated focus on merger analysis in the health care markets,

recent decisions on the scope of states’ parens patriae authority, and

state law developments regarding vertical price restraints.

The Section thanks Stephen Feldman in Raleigh, North Carolina,

who shepherded this latest edition to its completion. Stephen, along with

State Enforcement chairs Vic Domen and Tracy Wertz, recruited the

group of antitrust lawyers who drafted and revised the Handbook for this

edition. The Section thanks these talented authors, who are named in the

preface below.

January 2018

Jonathan Jacobson

Chair, Section of Antitrust Law

American Bar Association

2017-2018