New Hampshire

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Chapter 32

for the

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

Updated and Revised by

Harvey I. Saferstein, Esq.

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo, PC

Los Angeles, California

Reza Breakstone, Esq.

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo, PC

Boston, Massachusetts

Neil P. Motenko, Esq.

Sarah P. Kelly, Esq.

Nutter, McClennan & Fish, LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

The Section of Antitrust Law thanks David Rienzo, Assistant Attorney General,

Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau, New Hampshire Department of Justice,

for his review of this chapter.

The Section gratefully acknowledges Dean S. Daskal, Esq., Lawrence R. Fullerton,

Esq., and Rebecca L. Shuffain, Esq. for their work on this chapter in prior editions.

New Hampshire 32-iii

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 .................................... 2

3.a. Price Fixing ...................................................................................... 2

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

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

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

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

4. Group Boycotts.............................................................................................. 3

5. Resale Price Maintenance .............................................................................. 3

6. Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Intrabrand ....................................................... 4

7. Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Interbrand ....................................................... 4

8. Tying Arrangements ...................................................................................... 4

9. Dual Distribution ........................................................................................... 4

10. Intracorporate Conspiracy.............................................................................. 5

11. Monopolization.............................................................................................. 5

12. Mergers.......................................................................................................... 5

13. Discrimination & Other Single Firm Pricing Regulation .............................. 5

13.a. Price Discrimination ........................................................................ 5

13.b. Price Gouging and MinimumPricing Statutes................................. 5

13.c. Industry Specific Rules .................................................................... 6

13.c.7. Public Utilities .................................................................... 6

14. Exemptions and Defenses to Antitrust Liability ............................................ 6

14.a. Statutory Exemptions and Defenses................................................. 6

14.a.1. State Action ........................................................................ 6

14.a.3. Filed Rate Doctrine ............................................................. 6

14.a.4. Statute of Limitations ......................................................... 6

14.a.6. Labor................................................................................... 7

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

14.a.8. Agriculture.......................................................................... 7

14.b. Nonstatutory Exemptions and Defenses .......................................... 7

14.b.9. Indirect Purchasers.............................................................. 7

15. Government Enforcement.............................................................................. 8

15.a. Criminal ........................................................................................... 8

15.b. Quasi-Criminal (Civil Penalties)...................................................... 9

15.c. Parens Patriae................................................................................... 9

15.d. Civil.................................................................................................. 9

15.f. Policy ............................................................................................. 10

16. Private Enforcement .................................................................................... 10

17. Antitrust Aspects of Unfair Practices and Consumer Protection Laws ....... 11

New Hampshire Statute ............................................................................................. 13