Sentences with phrase «restrain free competition»

The Seventh Circuit stated that to establish the per se illegality of a tying arrangement, the CSVC must show that: (1) the tying arrangement is between two distinct products or services; (2) defendant has sufficient economic power in the tying market to appreciably restrain free competition in the market for the tied product; and (3) a not insubstantial amount of interstate commerce is affected.

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The defendant, from in or around March 2008 to in or around October 2013, in the County of Monroe, acting in concert with others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, knowingly and intentionally entered into and engaged in and continued to engage in a contract, agreement, arrangement, and combination in unreasonable restraint of combination and the free exercise of activity in the conduct of business, trade, and commerce, specifically, to restrain competition in the bidding process of Monroe County for the Public Safety Contract, by means of bid rigging.

So, faced with disruptive eBook technology that threatened their inefficient and antiquated business model, several major book publishers, working with Apple Inc. («Apple»), decided free market competition should not be allowed to work — together they coordinated their activities to fight back in an effort to restrain trade and retard innovation.

Florida, however, created a legal exception to free - enterprise and allowed certain narrow circumstances where competition can, by agreement, be restrained.