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...National Association of College Stores (NACS) alleges that these publishers engage in "dual pricing," offering better discount rates for independent booksellers than for college bookstores, violating antitrust...
...case is pursued, it would most likely be tried under the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936, according to Professor of Law Einer R. Elhauge, a specialist on antitrust...
...basis of a student's academic merit, and met to negotiate how much need-based financial aid should be offered to individual students accepted by two or more of the member institutions. Ostensibly the goal of this "Overlap Group," dismantled in 1991 after a two-year federal antitrust investigation, was to equalize the amount of money a given student's family would be required to contribute and thus keep price from clouding the student's decision. In practice, by liberating schools from price competition, the arrangement may have allowed them to boost tuitions to artificially high levels and, thanks...
...Overlap arrangement, says Keith Leffler, a University of Washington antitrust economist who testified for the government, allowed member schools to raise their gross tuition (now often called the "sticker price") to very high levels without scaring off talented low-income students. The wealthiest students would come no matter what, and might even be attracted by the high prices. Says Leffler: "There's no doubt [Overlap] artificially inflated tuition prices...
...idea for hooking Hubbell up with Boggs was his alone; no one at the White House, he said, suggested or even knew of the deal. "Webb was looking for work," he explained. "I was a friend of Webb's. So I asked Webb if he had experience with antitrust work. I talked to Tim. I went and told Webb. Webb called Tim." Berman said he arranged no other work for Hubbell and has not received a subpoena from Starr...