Nebraska

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Chapter 30

for the

STATE OF NEBRASKA

Updated and Revised by

Bethany Wimsatt, Esq.

Nancy Craig, Esq.

Crowell & Moring LLP

Washington, DC

The Section of Antitrust Law thanks Leslie Levy, Assistant Attorney General,

Antitrust Division, Nebraska Attorney General’s Office, for her review of this

chapter.

The Section gratefully acknowledges Lee N. Abrams, Esq., Dale Comer, Esq.,

Christine A. Kexel, Esq., Jonathan L. Lewis, Esq. and Diane R. Sabol, Esq., Mark R.

Ter Molen, Esq. for their work on this chapter in prior editions.

Nebraska 30-iii

CONTENTS

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

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

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

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

3.a.Price Fixing...................................................................................... 4

3.b.Market Allocation ............................................................................ 5

3.c.Customer Allocation ........................................................................ 5

3.d.Bid Rigging...................................................................................... 6

3.e.Covenants Not toCompete .............................................................. 6

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

4.a.Concerted Refusals to Deal.............................................................. 7

4.b.Expulsion or Exclusion from Membership in Trade

Associations or Other Groups .......................................................... 8

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

5.a.Generally.......................................................................................... 8

5.b. Monsanto Rule ................................................................................. 9

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 ......................................................................................... 13

10.Intracorporate Conspiracy............................................................................ 14

11.Monopolization............................................................................................ 14

11.a.Monopolization.............................................................................. 14

11.b.Attempts to Monopolize................................................................. 15

11.d.Predatory Pricing............................................................................ 16

12.Mergers........................................................................................................ 16

13.Discrimination & Other Single Firm Pricing Regulation ............................ 17

13.a.Price Discrimination ...................................................................... 17

13.a.1.Territorial orLocality Discrimination......................... 17

13.a.2.BuyerLiability ............................................................ 18

13.a.3.Meeting Competition Defense .................................... 18

13.a.6.O ther Defenses and Exemptions................................. 19

13.a.7.Brokerage .................................................................... 19

14.Exemptions and Defenses to Antitrust Liability.......................................... 19

14.a.Statutory Exemptions and Defenses............................................... 19

14.a.1.StateAction................................................................. 19

14.a.2.Contribution ................................................................ 20

14.a.4.Statuteof Limitations.................................................. 20

14.a.6.Labor ........................................................................... 20

14.a.7.Insurance ..................................................................... 21

14.a.8.A griculture .................................................................. 21

14.a.15.PublicUtilities ............................................................ 22

14.a.17.Securities ..................................................................... 22