In this issue: Welcome to the home page of The CPI Antitrust Chronicle (formerly GCP Magazine).  In this issue, we’re revisiting an old friend – Leegin. Numerous states and Congress…

Morissa Falk, Jay Himes, Jan 25, 2010 The debate over RPM centers on the fact that vertical price-fixing’s purpose is to increase an item’s price beyond that likely to prevail…

Court, David Olsky, Jan 29, 2010 Over the past three years, certain state attorneys general have spoken out strongly against Resale Price Maintenance (“RPM”) practices, upset with the Supreme Court…

Shanker Singham, Jan 26, 2010 Consumer welfare, which should be the guiding principle of competition policy implementation, is often mistaken for consumer protection.Whereas consumer protection looks to the interests of…

James Grimmelmann, Jan 26, 2010 The deal that Google would get under the proposed amended settlement in the Authors Guild case is exclusive in one very important sense. Many out-of-print…

Roger Blair, Jessica Haynes, Jan 25, 2010 In 1911, the Supreme Court addressed resale price maintenance (“RPM”) for the first time. Although RPM is a vertical price restraint, the Court…

Leiv Blad, Bryan Killian, Jan 27, 2010 Overturning a 96-year-old rule, the United States Supreme Court held in Leegin that minimum resale price maintenance (“RPM”) agreements would no longer be…