Idaho

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Chapter 15

for the

STATE OF IDAHO

Updated and Revised by

Brett T. DeLange, Esq.

Stephanie Guyon, Esq.

Deputy Attorneys General

Consumer Protection Division

Office of the Idaho Attorney General

Boise, Idaho

The Section of Antitrust Law gratefully acknowledges Don T. Hibner, Esq., Jennifer

Lum, Esq., Kay Solomon, Esq., Michael E. Thomas, Esq. and Carlton A Varner, Esq.

for their work on this chapter in prior editions.

Idaho 15-iii

CONTENTS

1. Introduction ................................................................................................... 1

1.a. Overview.......................................................................................... 1

1.d. Relation to Federal Law................................................................... 2

2. The Per Se Rule and the Rule of Reason ....................................................... 2

3. Horizontal Agreements Other Than Group Boycotts .................................... 3

3.a. Price Fixing ...................................................................................... 3

3.b. Market Allocation ............................................................................ 3

3.c. Customer Allocation ........................................................................ 4

3.d. Bid Rigging...................................................................................... 4

3.e. Covenants Not to Compete .............................................................. 4

4. Group Boycotts.............................................................................................. 5

4.a. Concerted Refusals to Deal .............................................................. 5

4.b. Expulsion or Exclusion from Membership in Trade

Associations or Other Groups .......................................................... 5

5. Resale Price Maintenance.............................................................................. 5

6. Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Intrabrand....................................................... 5

7. Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Interbrand....................................................... 6

8. Tying Arrangements ...................................................................................... 6

9. Dual Distribution ........................................................................................... 7

10. Intracorporate Conspiracy.............................................................................. 7

11. Monopolization.............................................................................................. 8

12. Mergers.......................................................................................................... 9

13. Discrimination & Other Single Firm Pricing Regulation .............................. 9

13.a. Price Discrimination ........................................................................ 9

13.a.1. Territorial or Locality Discrimination......................... 10

13.a.2. Buyer Liability ............................................................ 11

13.a.3. Meeting Competition Defense .................................... 11

13.a.4. Functional Classifications ........................................... 11

13.a.5. P reemption .................................................................. 11

13.a.6. O ther Defenses and Exemptions................................. 11

13.a.7. Brokerage .................................................................... 11

13.a.9. P romotional Allowances and Services........................ 12

13.a.10. Sales Below Cost and Loss Leaders............................ 12

14. Exemptions and Defenses to Antitrust Liability.......................................... 12

14.a. Statutory Exemptions and Defenses............................................... 13

14.a.1. State Action................................................................. 13

14.a.2. Contribution ................................................................ 15

14.a.3. Filed R ate Doctrine..................................................... 15

14.a.4. Statute of Limitations.................................................. 15

14.a.5. P reemption .................................................................. 15

14.a.6. Labor ........................................................................... 15

14.a.7. Insurance ..................................................................... 16

14.a.8. A griculture .................................................................. 16

14.b. Nonstatutory Exemptions and Defenses ........................................ 17