Questioning The Legality Of Minimum RPM Agreements

Law360 (February 23, 2011, 2:49 PM EST) -- Although it used to be a well-settled area of the law, manufacturers now cannot be sure whether the law allows them to require their distributors and retailers to adhere to minimum resale prices. For decades, the setting of maximum or minimum prices to be charged by resellers — known as resale price maintenance (RPM) or vertical price-fixing — was illegal per se....

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