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Personal Jurisdiction Over Alien Corporate Parents And Affiliates In Antitrust Actions: A Plea For Perspicuity, William D. Kingery Jr.

Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce

The purpose of this Comment is to read the entrails of judicial conceptions which have been sacrificed for reasons of public policy. Antitrust law provides a fertile source of cases which consider these problems. Almost since the passage of the Sherman Act, alien corporations have been sued when acts committed abroad have adversely affected U.S. plaintiffs. The extraterritorial application of antitrust law is well established. In most antitrust cases against corporations, a single sixty-year-old statute governs venue and service of process. There is nevertheless little agreement on its meaning.

After a brief review of the historical background, this Comment will …