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WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumer protection collided with modern economic theory Monday as the Supreme Court wrestled with a 96-year-old standard designed to promote competition.
At issue is a 1911 Supreme Court ruling that is based on an assumption that any agreement between a manufacturer and stores to set minimum retail prices for products is almost always anti-competitive.
Not so, said Washington lawyer Theodore Olson, representing a manufacturer of women's accessories.
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