Quick-look / truncated Rule of Reason analysis for restraints with obvious anticompetitive effects

OR · 15usc1:restraint.quick-look

Applied when "an observer with even a rudimentary understanding of economics could conclude that the arrangements in question would have an anticompetitive effect on customers and markets" (California Dental Ass'n v. FTC, 526 U.S. 756, 770 (1999); NCAA v. Board of Regents, 468 U.S. 85 (1984)).

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in restraint of trade or commerce
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we have applied the quick look doctrine to business activities that are so plainly anticompetitive that courts need undertake only a cursory examination before imposing antitrust liability

/us/547/0001-01 — Supreme Court of the United States · 2006

we have applied the quick look doctrine to business activities that are so plainly anticompetitive that courts need undertake only a cursory examination before imposing antitrust liability
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Applied when "an observer with even a rudimentary understanding of economics could conclude that the arrangements in question would have an anticompetitive effect on customers and markets" (California Dental Ass'n v. FTC, 526 U.S. 756, 770 (1999); NCAA v. Board of Regents, 468 U.S. 85 (1984)).