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The FTC sued PepsiCo under the rarely enforced 1936 Robinson-Patman Act. The FTC said the act prohibits companies from using promotional incentive payments to favor large customers over smaller ones. It was the second time in a little more than a month that the FTC has cited the Robinson-Patman Act in a lawsuit.
The Robinson-Patman Act is an obscure 1936 antitrust law that forbids companies from offering better prices to one buyer over another for the same commodity. A case has not been brought under the ...
The Robinson–Patman Act (RPA) of 1936 (or Anti-Price Discrimination Act, Pub. L. No. 74-692, 49 Stat. 1526 (codified at 15 U.S.C. § 13)) is a United States federal law that prohibits anticompetitive practices by producers, specifically price discrimination.
The lawsuit filed in New York alleges the soft drink manufacturer violated the Robinson-Patman Act, a law that went largely unenforced for decades by the federal government. Walmart declined to ...
This lawsuit adds to the FTC’s efforts to crack down on anticompetitive practices using the Robinson-Patman Act, which has rarely been enforced since the late 1980s. PepsiCo said this is an ...
Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 509 U.S. 209 (1993), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court required that an antitrust plaintiff alleging predatory pricing must show not only changes in market conditions adverse to its interests, as a threshold matter, but must show on the merits that (1) the prices complained of are below an appropriate measure of its ...
On March 15, 2024, the National Association of Realtors announced that it would settle the lawsuit rather than appeal. The group agreed to change how commissions are paid and to pay back $418 million over four years. [16] The judge presiding over the case granted preliminary approval to the settlement on April 23, 2024. [17]
The FTC lawsuit, previously reported by Politico, could come in the next few weeks and would rely on the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936, the source said. That Depression-era law prohibits suppliers ...