Town of Hallie v. City of Eau Claire

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• holding that municipal entities, though not sovereign, may avail themselves of the immunity if their actions spring from governing state authority
• recognizing that different state-action test applies based on the status of the defendant
• holding that municipalities need not satisfy the second prong of the Midcal test
• noting that “Municipalities ... are not beyond the reach of the antitrust laws by virtue of their status because they are not themselves sovereign.”
• noting that public entities such as municipalities are exempt from federal antitrust laws if their anticompetitive activities are authorized by state policy meant to displace competition with regulation
• describing New Motor Vehicle Bd. of Cal. v. Orrin W. Fox Co., 439 U. S. 96 (1978

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