i m trying to figure that out, what legal authority actually requires a government to satisfy your standard to block a merger. i think what i remember in our discussion, you cited these nonbinding horizontal merger guidelines that you used to come up with this test. well, you re looking at the effect on competition and what the supreme court has told us, at least from the late 1970s s to look at the effect on consumers and what s the effect on the prices for consumers. the theory of the district court, judge friedman in this case, was that the merger would not cause an increase in prices because they were competing in a broader market that included larger supermarkets that also sold organic food. the question was really, is there an organic food market solely or is there a broader supermarket market. that s what the case i know. i was just trying to get to where that new test came from. so in the second case, you also
tests and i m trying to figure that out, what legal authority actually requires the government to satisfy your standard to block a merger. i think what i remember in our discussion, you cited these horizontal merger guidelines that you used to come up with this test. you re looking at the effect on competition and what the supreme court has told us at least from the late 1970s is to look at the effect on consumers and what is the effect on the prices for consumers. the theory of the district court and judge friedman in this case is that the merger would not cause an increase in prices because they were competing in a broader market that included larger supermarkets that also sold organic food. the question is there really an organic food market solely or is there a broader supermarket market. that s what the case i was trying to get to where that new test came from.
pricing test is what i want to know. because you used a different test. i m trying to figure that out, what legal authority actually requires the government to satisfy your standard to block a merger. i think what i remember in our discussion, you cited these nonbinding horizontal merger guidelines that you used to come up with this test. well, you re looking at the effect on competition. and what the supreme court has told us at least from the late 1970s is to look at the effect on consumers. what s the effect on the prices for consumers. and the theory of the district court and judge friedman in this case was that the merger would not cause an increase in prices because they were competing in a broader market that included larger supermarkets that also sold organic food. the question was really was there an organic food market solely or is there a broader supermarket market, and that s what the case