Nov. 26, 2025
California clarifies the obvious: AI pricing algorithms are anti-competitive
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Jason S. Hartley
Hartley LLPPhone: (619) 400-5822
Email: hartley@hartleyllp.com
Tulane University Law School; New Orleans LA
When the antitrust laws were created (1890 for the federal Sherman Act and 1907 for California's Cartwright Act) defendants stereotypically met in smoke-filled rooms to hatch conspiracies to artificially fix their prices to consumers. Those conspiracies were illegal under those antitrust statutes because they harmed competition. When the telephone was invented, defendants' price fixing activities continued over the phone. These conspiracies were illegal because they also ha...
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