Kansas Supreme Court Condemns Vertical Price Fixing Agreements as Per Se Illegal* Earlier this month, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the reasonableness of a vertical price fixing agreement is not to be considered when determining whether such an agreement violates the Kansas Restraint of Trade Act (KRTA). Kansas Supreme Court precedent that called for a “reasonableness rubric”—a determination of whether a restraint was reasonable in view of all of the facts and circumstances—was overruled. In addition, the court decided that the “rule of reason” of federal antitrust jurisprudence did not apply. It refused to read unwritten elements, such as a reasonableness requirement, into the otherwise clear legislative language of theKansasantitrust law. The action was brought by a consumer
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The Kansas Supreme Court condemns vertical price fixing agreements as per se illegal under the Kansas Restraint of Trade Act (O’Brien / Leegin Creative Leather Products)
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