Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2009
Center/Program
Center for Law and Economic Studies
Center/Program
The Charles Evans Gerber Transactional Studies Center
Abstract
In F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. v. Empagran S.A., the Supreme Court interpreted the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act ("FTAIA") to bar an antitrust suit by foreign plaintiffs against foreign defendants despite the fact that the foreign and domestic markets were interconnected. I identify one narrow class of cases that would satisfy the statutory exception. Rather than focusing on the interrelatedness of the foreign and domestic prices, the inquiry centers on the resale of goods to the domestic market. The argument is a variant on Illinois Brick.
Recommended Citation
Victor P. Goldberg,
The Empagran Exception: Between Illinois Brick and a Hard Place,
Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2009, p. 785, 2009; Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 345
(2009).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/1570
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