A Shift in California Antitrust Law: The State's Single Firm Conduct Proposal

The California Law Revision Commission has prepared a final recommendation to amend the Cartwright Act to prohibit monopsonization, and other single-firm restraints of trade. If adopted as drafted, the proposal would guide California courts to develop antitrust law that could diverge significantly from U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of Section 2 of the Sherman Act. In this new installment of our Tech in the Courts series, our panel of experts discuss the potential impacts of this proposal. Moderator: Bilal Sayyed, TechFreedom Panelists: Professor Barak Orbach, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and Jay Ezrielev, Elevecon About WLF: Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) is the nation’s premier public-interest law firm and policy center. Our mission is to preserve and defend America’s free-enterprise system by litigating, educating, and advocating for free-market principles, a limited and accountable government, individual and business civil liberties, and the rule of law. For more information, please visit https://www.wlf.org/. About TechFreedom: TechFreedom is a non-profit, non-partisan technology think tank launched in 2011. The organization seeks to advance public policy that makes experimentation, entrepreneurship, and investment possible, and thus unleashes the ultimate resource: human ingenuity. For more information please visit https://techfreedom.org/about/. #TechFreedom #tech #antitrust #california