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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 .
[4] That said, Justice Kennedy notes that the States' power to regulate would be "impermissibly burdened" if they had to obey United States antitrust law. [5] To address this, the Court in Parker v. Brown (1943) granted California immunity from federal antitrust laws after the state created a New Deal raisin cartel.
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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
Qualified immunity applies only to government officials in civil litigation, and does not protect the government itself from suits arising from officials' actions. [4] The U.S. Supreme Court first introduced the qualified immunity doctrine in Pierson v. Ray, a case litigated during the height of the civil rights movement. It is stated to have ...
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's federal election interference case on Tuesday granted special counsel Jack Smith's request to file a 180-page brief on presidential immunity ...
Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp., 467 U.S. 752 (1984), is a major US antitrust law case decided by the Supreme Court concerning the Pittsburgh firm Copperweld Corporation and the Chicago firm Independence Tube. [1]