Chapter 53
for the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Updated and Revised by
E. Perry Johnson, Esq.
Bryan Cave LLP
St. Louis, Missouri
Jacob A. Kramer, Esq.
Bryan Cave LLP
Washington, D.C.
The Section of Antitrust Law thanks Douglas L. Davis, Assistant Attorney General,
Antitrust Division, West Virginia Attorney General’s Office, for his review of this
chapter.
The Section gratefully acknowledges James F. Bogan III, Esq., Laurie Cole, Esq.,
C. Allen Garrett Jr., Esq., Ray V. Hartwell III, Esq., Thomas M. Hughes, Esq., Philip
Malet, Esq., and David L. Roll, Esq. for their work on this chapter in prior editions.
West Virginia 53-iii
CONTENTS
1. Introduction ................................................................................................... 1
1.a. Overview...........................................................................................1
1.b. Source of Law–Statutes and Other....................................................1
1.d. Relation to Federal Law....................................................................1
1.e. Remedies...........................................................................................3
1.f. Enforcement......................................................................................3
2. The Per Se Rule and the Rule of Reason ....................................................... 3
3. Horizontal Agreements Other Than Group Boycotts .................................... 4
3.a. Price Fixing .......................................................................................4
3.b. Market Allocation .............................................................................4
3.c. Customer Allocation .........................................................................5
3.d Bid Rigging.......................................................................................5
3.e. Covenants Not to Compete ...............................................................5
4. Group Boycotts.............................................................................................. 5
4.a. Concerted Refusals to Deal ...............................................................5
4.b. Expulsion or Exclusion from Membership in Trade
Associations or Other Groups ...........................................................6
5. Resale Price Maintenance.............................................................................. 6
5.a. Generally...........................................................................................6
5.b. Monsanto Rule ..................................................................................6
5.c. Impact of Leegin ...............................................................................7
6. Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Intrabrand....................................................... 7
7. Nonprice Vertical Restraints–Interbrand....................................................... 7
8. Tying Arrangements ...................................................................................... 7
9. Dual Distribution ........................................................................................... 8
10. Intracorporate Conspiracy.............................................................................. 8
11. Monopolization.............................................................................................. 9
12. Mergers.......................................................................................................... 9
13. Discrimination & Other Single Firm Pricing Regulation ............................ 10
13.a. Price Discrimination .......................................................................10
13.c. Specific Industry Rules ................................................................... 12
13.c.4. Fuel and P etroleum...................................................... 12
13.c.5. Motion Pictures............................................................ 12
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...................................................... 13
14.a.4. Statute of Limitations................................................... 14
14.a.6. Labor............................................................................ 14
14.a.7. Insurance...................................................................... 14
14.a.8. Agriculture................................................................... 15
14.a.15. Public Utilities ............................................................. 15
14.a.20. Charitable Institutions.................................................. 15
14.b Nonstatutory Exemptions and Defenses .........................................15
14.b.2. Noerr-Pennington Doctrine ......................................... 15
