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The Parker immunity doctrine is an exemption from liability for engaging in antitrust violations. It applies to the state when it exercises legislative authority in creating a regulation with anticompetitive effects, and to private actors when they act at the direction of the state after it has done so.
Parker v. Brown , 317 U.S. 341 (1943), was a United States Supreme Court case on the scope of United States antitrust law . It held that actions taken by state governments were exempt from the scope of the Sherman Act .
Virginia State Bar (1975) found Parker immunity required what Justice Kennedy calls “more than a mere facade of state involvement”. Because the Sherman Act was designed to break private monopolies, [6] Justice Kennedy does not accept that the "congressional judgment" was to allow the States to delegate their immunity to a private monopoly. [7]
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State action immunity may refer to: Act of state doctrine - legal doctrine that sovereign states must respect the independence of other sovereign states Parker immunity doctrine - legal doctrine in U.S. courts that certain acts of the U.S. state governments are immune from antitrust liability
The doctrine makes it nearly impossible for victims of prosecutorial misconduct to get recourse. Sotomayor Is Right: The Supreme Court Should Reevaluate Absolute Immunity for Prosecutors Skip to ...
The United States has waived sovereign immunity to a limited extent, mainly through the Federal Tort Claims Act, which waives the immunity if a tortious act of a federal employee causes damage, and the Tucker Act, which waives the immunity over claims arising out of contracts to which the federal government is a party. The Federal Tort Claims ...
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