Mississippi

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Chapter 27

for the

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

Updated and Revised by

Robert E. Hauberg, Jr., Esq.

W. Davis Frye, Esq.

Amy L. Champagne, Esq.

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

Jackson, Mississippi

The Section of Antitrust Law thanks Scott A. Johnson, Special Assistant Attorney

General, Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, and David W. Clark, Esq. of Bradley

Arant Rose & White LLP for their review of this chapter.

The Section gratefully acknowledges Robert E. Hauberg, Jr., Esq., George P. Hewes,

III, Esq., Susan L. Roberts, Esq., Perry Sansing, Esq.,Christopher A. Shapley, Esq.,

and Cory Todd Wilson, Esq. for their work on this chapter in prior editions.

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CONTENTS

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

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

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 .............................................................................4

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

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

3.e.Covenants Not toCompete ...............................................................4

4.Group Boycotts...............................................................................................6

4.a.Concerted Refusals to Deal...............................................................6

4.b.Expulsion or Exclusion from Membership in Trade

Associations or Other Groups ...........................................................6

5.Resale Price Maintenance...............................................................................6

5.a. Generally...........................................................................................6

5.b. Monsanto Rule..................................................................................7

5.c.Impact of Leegin ...............................................................................7

6.Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Intrabrand........................................................7

7.Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Interbrand........................................................8

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

9.Dual Distribution ............................................................................................8

10.Intracorporate Conspiracy...............................................................................8

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

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

13.Discrimination & Other Single Firm Pricing Regulation .............................10

13.a.Price Discrimination .......................................................................10

13.a.1.Territorial or Locality Discrimination...........................11

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

13.b.Price Gouging and MinimumPricing Statutes................................12

13.c.Specific Industry Rules ................................................................... 12

13.c.2. Cigarettes.......................................................................12

13.c.4.Fuel and Petroleum........................................................13

13.c.6.Insurance .......................................................................13

13.c.7.Public Utilities...............................................................13

13.c.8. Others............................................................................15

14.Exemptions and Defenses to Antitrust Liability...........................................15

14.a.Statutory Exemptions and Defenses................................................15

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

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

14.a.9.Agriculture ....................................................................16

14.a.10. Cigarettes.......................................................................16

14.a.11. Dairy..............................................................................16

14.a.12.Fuel and Petroleum........................................................16

14.a.23. Miscellaneous................................................................16