Ouvrages

Global Competition Law

Auteur : Louis Vogel

Sommaire de l’ouvrage

Introduction
Part 1: Member States
Part 2: Third States

1497. Context

When the Sherman Act was adopted in 1890, at least twenty-six States in the US already had some type of antitrust prohibition in place. Fundamental concepts of Federal antitrust law, such as the rule against per se price-fixing, originated in …

1498. The Commerce Clause

The Commerce Clause grants power to the Federal Government to regulate commerce between States and thereby acts as a limit on the States' power to do so. In determining whether a state has violated the Commerce Clause in enacting a State …

1499. The Supremacy Clause

The Supremacy Clause provides that the US Constitution and Federal laws are “the supreme Law of the land,” and that State courts are bound thereby notwithstanding any contrary State statute. Federal laws preempt state laws in three …