Iowa. Practice Text

Chapter 18

for the

STATE OF IOWA

Updated and Revised by

Robert F. Ware, Esq.

Thompson Hine LLP

Cleveland, Ohio

The Section of Antitrust Law thanks John R. Perkins, Consumer Advocate, Layne

Lindebak, Assistant Attorney General, and Jack Dwyer, Attorney, Consumer

Advocate’s Office, Iowa Department of Justice, for their review of this chapter.

The Section gratefully acknowledges William M. Hannay, Esq. for his work on this

chapter in prior editions.

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CONTENTS

1.Introduction ................................................................................................... 1

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

1.c.History .............................................................................................. 2

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

1.e.Remedies .......................................................................................... 2

1.f.Enforcement ..................................................................................... 3

2.The Per Se Rule and the Rule of Reason ....................................................... 3

3.Horizontal Agreements Other Than Group Boycotts .................................... 4

3.a.Price Fixing ...................................................................................... 5

3.b.Market Allocation ............................................................................ 7

3.e.Covenants Not to Compete .............................................................. 7

4.Group Boycotts .............................................................................................. 7

5.Resale Price Maintenance .............................................................................. 8

5.c.Impact of Leegin ............................................................................ 10

6.Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Intrabrand ..................................................... 10

7.Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Interbrand ..................................................... 11

8.Tying Arrangements .................................................................................... 11

9.Dual Distribution ......................................................................................... 11

10.Intracorporate Conspiracy............................................................................ 11

11.Monopolization ............................................................................................ 12

12.Mergers ........................................................................................................ 14

13.Discrimination & Other Single Firm Pricing Regulation ............................ 15

13.a.Price Discrimination ...................................................................... 15

13.a.1.Territorial or Locality Discrimination ......................... 15

13.c.Specific Industry Rules .................................................................. 16

14.Exemptions and Defenses to Antitrust Liability .......................................... 17

14.a.Statutory Exemptions and Defenses ............................................... 17

14.a.1.State Action ................................................................. 17

14.a.4.Statute of Limitations .................................................. 21

14.a.6.Labor ........................................................................... 21

14.a.7.Insurance ..................................................................... 22

14.a.8.Agriculture .................................................................. 22

14.a.12.Fuel and Petroleum ..................................................... 23

14.a.23.Miscellaneous ............................................................. 23

15.Government Enforcement ............................................................................ 23

15.a.Criminal ......................................................................................... 23

15.b.Quasi-Criminal (Civil Penalties) .................................................... 24

15.c.Parens Patriae ................................................................................. 25

15.d.Civil ................................................................................................ 25

15.f.Policy ............................................................................................. 27

16.Private Enforcement .................................................................................... 28

16.a.Overview ........................................................................................ 28

16.b.Remedies ........................................................................................ 28

16.c.Standing ......................................................................................... 30