Antitrust Chronicle^® – State Attorneys General

Dear Readers,

In this Chronicle we feature contributions from the offices of State Attorneys General from across the U.S.

It is sometimes forgotten that the U.S. has 53 agencies that enforce the antitrust laws: the DOJ, the FTC, 50 states, and the District of Columbia. States Attorneys General thus form key pieces of the U.S. enforcement jigsaw.

Within this federalist laboratory, there are times when states decide that their citizens require stronger enforcement than that taken by the federal au