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Professional Activities And The Antitrust Laws, Joseph P. Bauer
Professional Activities And The Antitrust Laws, Joseph P. Bauer
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Few subjects in international law raise such incorrigible conflicts of interest as the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction in the antitrust context. As one commentator asked with respect to a U.S. court's assertion of jurisdiction over British defendants, "[h]ow could American law, how could an American judgment applying American law possibly vary the rights and obligations created by an English contract to be performed outside the United States?" Indeed, international law is based on the notion that a state occupies a definite territory, within which it normally exercises exclusive jurisdiction.
Yet this traditional doctrine of "territorial jurisdiction" has slowly given way …
The Moving Picture Anti-Trust Cases, Thomas F. Broden
The Moving Picture Anti-Trust Cases, Thomas F. Broden
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United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., et al. involves a consideration by the Supreme Court of The United States of the guilt of a vast segment of the nation-wide movie industry of a district court conviction of re- straining and monopolizing interstate trade in the distribution and exhibition of films. Not only were the violations of the Sherman Act by the largest moving picture film distributors of the country in issue, but a more difficult problem, that of what to do about the violations, was presented to the Supreme Court for its consideration.
From a reading of the majority opinion …