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Group Boycotts

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Place in the Framework

Group boycotts involve coordinated refusals to deal, but modern doctrine applies per se treatment more cautiously than in price fixing or market division cases.

Core Questions

  • Is the boycott exclusionary, collusive, or both?
  • Does the group have market power or control access to something competitively important?
  • Are there plausible procompetitive justifications?

Working Notes

Add notes here on the boundaries of per se boycott analysis and when courts shift toward rule of reason treatment.