Chapter 31
for the
STATE OF NEVADA
Updated and Revised by
Brian G. Armstrong, Esq.
Lucas J. Tucker, Esq.
Senior Deputy Attorneys General
Bureau of Consumer Protection
Office of the Nevada Attorney General
Las Vegas, Nevada
This chapter does not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of the Nevada
Attorney General. It is not intended to and does not create any rights, substantive or
procedural, enforceable at law by any party in any matter civil or criminal relative to
the Office of the Nevada Attorney General.
The Section of Antitrust Law gratefully acknowledges Daniel E. Durden, Esq.,
Steven John Fellman, Esq., Suellen Fulstone, Esq., Glen Mitchell, Esq., and George
Tobin, Esq. for their work on this chapter in prior editions.
Nevada 31-iii
CONTENTS
1.
Introduction .................................................................................................... 1
1.a.
Overview ........................................................................................... 1
1.c.
History ............................................................................................... 2
1.d.
Relation to Federal Law .................................................................... 3
2.
The Per Se Rule and the Rule of Reason ........................................................ 3
3.
Horizontal Agreements Other Than Group Boycotts ..................................... 3
3.a.
Price Fixing ....................................................................................... 3
3.b.
Market Allocation ............................................................................. 4
3.c.
Customer Allocation ......................................................................... 4
3.d.
Bid Rigging ....................................................................................... 4
3.e.
Covenants Not to Compete ............................................................... 4
4.
Group Boycotts ............................................................................................... 5
5.
Resale Price Maintenance ............................................................................... 6
6.
Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Intrabrand ........................................................ 6
7.
Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Interbrand ........................................................ 6
8.
Tying Arrangements ....................................................................................... 6
9.
Dual Distribution ............................................................................................ 7
10.
Intracorporate Conspiracy............................................................................... 7
11.
Monopolization ............................................................................................... 7
12.
Mergers ........................................................................................................... 9
13.
Discrimination & Other Single Firm Pricing Regulation ............................. 10
13.a.
Price Discrimination ....................................................................... 10
13.c.
Specific Industry Rules ................................................................... 10
13.c.1.
Alcohol and Beverages ................................................ 10
13.c.2.
Cigarettes ..................................................................... 10
13.c.3.
Dairy ............................................................................ 11
13.c.4.
Fuel and Petroleum ...................................................... 11
13.c.6.
Insurance ...................................................................... 12
13.c.7.
Public Utilities ............................................................. 12
13.c.8.
Others ........................................................................... 13
14.
Exemptions and Defenses to Antitrust Liability ........................................... 13
14.a.
Statutory Exemptions and Defenses ................................................ 13
14.a.1.
State Action .................................................................. 13
14.a.3.
Filed Rate Doctrine ...................................................... 14
14.a.4.
Statute of Limitations ................................................... 14
14.a.6.
Labor ............................................................................ 15
14.a.7.
Insurance ...................................................................... 15
14.a.8.
Agriculture ................................................................... 15
14.a.20.
Charitable Institutions .................................................. 15
14.a.21.
Health Care .................................................................. 15
14.a.23.
Miscellaneous .............................................................. 16
14.b.
Nonstatutory Exemptions and Defenses ......................................... 17
14.b.2.
Noerr-Pennington Doctrine ......................................... 17
14.b.3.
Preemption ................................................................... 17
