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Should States Play a Role in Antitrust Issues?

Josh Wright contends that the federal government, not states, should guide the nation’s antitrust reviews. Otherwise, he argues, under the federalism idea that a particular allocation of authority should make the decision-maker bear the consequences of the decision, states not involved in another state’s opposition to a merger with nationwide implications could suffer negative consequences without having meaningful input in the decision. Read more here.