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Countervailing Power—Different Rules For Different Markets? Conduct And Context In Antitrust Law And Economics, Barbara Ann White

All Faculty Scholarship

The focus of modern applications of economic reasoning to antitrust concerns has been on the more subtle efficiency or procompetitive dimensions of the scrutinized conduct. When any of these characteristics are discovered, the courts tend to find no antitrust violation.

Two major difficulties arise with this approach. First, efficiency or procompetitive aspects can almost always be uncovered in any corporate enterprise, creating the potential for legitimizing almost all business behavior. Second, the legal conclusions courts reach are typically couched in terms of the business practice itself; therefore, once upheld, that practice is implicitly validated for other unrelated marketplace scenarios. Indiscriminate …

Personal Liability Of Corporate Officials In Ejectment Actions: Evolution Of The Tort And The Implications Of Metromedia Co. V. Wcbm Maryland, Inc., Lawrence S. Greenwald, Charles S. Hirsch

University of Baltimore Law Review

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Notes: Torts — Successor Corporations — Defective Products — Can The Law And Policies Of Strict Liability Be Reconciled With Corporate Law Policies Which Protect Successor Corporations In Order To Respond Fairly To The Legitimate Interests Of The Products Liability Plaintiff? Nissen Corp. V. Miller, 323 Md. 613, 594 A.2d 564 (1991) (4-2 Decision), Donna M.D. Macdonald

University of Baltimore Law Review

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