After decades of dormancy, the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA), a Depression-era antitrust statute prohibiting price discrimination, has recently become the subject of renewed interest from.
The Ninth Circuit recently revived a portion of a price discrimination claim brought by wholesalers of the popular 5-Hour Energy drink against its manufacturer, which provided more.
Federal Trade Commission has launched investigation into price discrimination in soft-drink industry as part of FTC Chair Lina Khan’s effort to reinvigorate use of the Robinson-Patman Act. The Act strengthened the Clayton Act’s limitations on price discrimination.
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation to explore price discrimination in the soft drink industry. A fresh approach to price discrimination would carefully balance what are sometimes the opposing forces of legal propriety and better economic outcomes.