United States v. Joel Smithers

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• finding the FTC “may bar incipient violations” of the Sherman and Clayton Acts
• “A line must [ ] be drawn between conduct that is anticompetitive and legitimate conduct that has an impact on competition.”
• The F.T.C. conceded that “price uniformity is normal in a market with few sellers and homogeneous products____”
• “price uniformity is normal in a market with few sellers and homogeneous products”
• “The mere existence of an oligopolistic market structure in which a small group of manufacturers engage in consciously parallel pricing of an identical product does not violate the antitrust laws”

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