Smile if you Know the Exceptions to the Colgate Rule

College basketball fans think Colgate is a surprisingly good mid-major team. Dentists think Colgate is a dentifrice. But antitrust lawyers know that Colgate stands for the proposition that, generally, an economic actor can freely choose its business partners. Of course, skilled antitrust lawyers know the exceptions to the Colgate rule—that is, when refusals to deal by monopolists may violate the antitrust laws.

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