Antitrust

Introduction: When one thinks of violations of federal antitrust laws including the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act, one normally thinks about monopolies. When a company has a monopoly on a product or service, it can control and coordinate the prices or quantities of the goods and services available to consumers in order to maximize the profits it makes. Other types of business activities violate federal antitrust laws. One such activity involves a tying arrangement. This is an agreement requiring that as a precondition for purchasing the products or services consumers want that other services or products must be also be purchased from the seller. Not all tying arrangements are unlawful, but some tying arrangements violate the Clayton Acts.

According to Mark Taylor an article published by Modern Healthcare (2005), Hillenbrand and its subsidiaries have agreed in princ

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