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Rethinking Antitrust Injury, Roger D. Blair, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Rethinking Antitrust Injury, Roger D. Blair, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Vanderbilt Law Review
Substantive changes in antitrust law since 1977 have had a dramatic impact on the vitality of antitrust enforcement.' Recent "procedural" changes now seem likely to have as great an influence. In the procedural area, the emphasis has been on antitrust standing and anti-trust injury. As a result of recent judicial interpretations of these requirements, antitrust plaintiffs face increasingly formidable hurdles. As courts focus on questions of standing and injury, important discussions about whether a practice should be held to a per se or rule of reason standards frequently are immaterial. If there is no qualified plaintiff,the substantive issue need never …