Island Tobacco Co. v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting plaintiff’s attempts to circumvent the proposition that corporations and their subsidiaries generally cannot conspire for purposes of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act because they constitute a single entity
• “[W]e view § 480-2 as being designed to aid ‘competitors,’ as much as to protect ‘competition.’ ” [Emphasis added]
• HRS § 480-2 is “a virtual counterpart of § 5(a)(1) of the [FTCA].”
• federal rulings with respect to federal antitrust laws comparable to those of Hawaii will not be blindly accepted and will serve primarily as guides to the interpretation and application of state law

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