Oklahoma

• Pages: 1977-2018

Chapter 39

for the

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

Updated and Revised by

Heather L. Cupp, Esq.

Stephen F. Bulleigh, Esq.

Jean C. Lopez, Esq.

Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, PC

Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

The Section of Antitrust Law thanks Julie A. Bays, Oklahoma Assistant Attorney

General, Consumer Protection Unit, Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office, for her

review of this chapter.

The Section gratefully acknowledges Gregory R. Bridges, Esq., Matthew Crook, Esq.,

Heather E. Evans, Esq., Donald L. Kahl, Esq., C. Kevin Morrison, Esq., Robert D.

Nelon, Esq., John T. Schmidt, Esq., and Jane T. Welch, Esq., and the Hon. T. Lane

Wilson 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. Covenants Not to Compete .............................................................. 4

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

5. Resale Price Maintenance .............................................................................. 7

6. Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Intrabrand ....................................................... 8

7. Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Interbrand ....................................................... 9

8. Tying Arrangements ...................................................................................... 9

9. Dual Distribution ......................................................................................... 10

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

11. Monopolization............................................................................................ 10

11.a. Monopolization .............................................................................. 10

11.b. Attempts to Monopolize................................................................. 12

11.c. Predatory Pricing............................................................................ 13

12. Mergers........................................................................................................ 13

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

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

13.a.10. Sales Below Cost and Loss Leaders............................ 15

14. Exemptions and Defenses to Antitrust Liability .......................................... 16

14.a. Statutory Exemptions and Defenses............................................... 16

14.a.1. State Action................................................................. 16

14.a.4. Statute of Limitations.................................................. 17

14.a.6. Labor........................................................................... 17

14.a.8. Agriculture.................................................................. 18

14.a.12. Fuel and Petroleum ..................................................... 18

14.b. Nonstatutory Exemptions and Defenses............... .......................... 18

14.b.2. Noerr-Pennington Doctrine ........................................ 18

14.b.4. Primary Jurisdiction .................................................... 18

14.b.5. In Pari Delicto/Estoppel .............................................. 18

14.b.6. Unclean Hands ............................................................ 19

14.b.8. Standing ...................................................................... 19

14.b.9. Indirect Purchasers ...................................................... 19

15. Government Enforcement............................................................................ 19

15.a. Criminal ......................................................................................... 19

15.c. Parens Patriae................................................................................. 20

15.f. Policy ............................................................................................. 20

16. Private Enforcement .................................................................................... 21

17. Antitrust Aspects of Unfair Practices and Consumer Protection Laws........ 21

Oklahoma Statute ...................................................................................................... 23