https://legal.excellentwiki.com/us/antitrust-law/ Recent content in antitrust and competition law on ExcellentWiki - Legal Encyclopedia Hugo en-US Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://legal.excellentwiki.com/us/antitrust-law/us-antitrust-law/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://legal.excellentwiki.com/us/antitrust-law/us-antitrust-law/ <h2 id="statutory-framework">Statutory Framework</h2> <p>US antitrust law rests on three core federal statutes. The <strong>Sherman Act of 1890</strong> prohibits contracts, combinations, and conspiracies in restraint of trade (§1) and monopolization, attempted monopolization, and conspiracies to monopolize (§2). The <strong>Clayton Act of 1914</strong> addresses specific practices—mergers and acquisitions (§7), price discrimination (Robinson-Patman Act), exclusive dealing, and tying arrangements—where the effect &ldquo;may be substantially to lessen competition.&rdquo; The <strong>Federal Trade Commission Act of 1915</strong> §5 prohibits &ldquo;unfair methods of competition&rdquo; and empowers the FTC to enforce antitrust law alongside the DOJ Antitrust Division. The <strong>Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976</strong> established a mandatory premerger notification regime requiring parties to certain transactions to file with both agencies and observe a waiting period before consummation.</p>