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Vertical Restraints After Monsanto, George A. Hay
Vertical Restraints After Monsanto, George A. Hay
George A. Hay
The decision in Monsanto Co. v. Spray-Rite Service Corp. represents the Supreme Court's latest effort to articulate the standards governing vertical restraints of trade under the United States anti-trust law. It is unlikely that this will be the last time the Court addresses this topic. Notwithstanding the many Supreme Court decisions in this area, several issues remain unresolved. Indeed, Monsanto may have created (or resurrected) as many new questions as it answered, a phenomenon characteristic of most prior opinions in this area. At least part of the reason for this unsettled state is that, from the outset, the Supreme Court …