Antitrust

The Consumer Protection Division is responsible for enforcing Maine's "monopolies and profiteering" (or antitrust) law. We investigate potentially anticompetitive conduct within and outside the State which has or could harm Maine consumers and bring actions in state and federal court to enforce the state's antitrust law, and to bring claims on behalf of the state and consumers.

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If you have any information you think we should know about, please send a complaint to:

Office of the Attorney General
Consumer Protection Division
6 State House Station
Augusta, Maine 04333-0006

Please remember to include an address and telephone number so that we may contact you if we need further information.

Antitrust Law

Maine law

Federal law

  • Title 5, Chapter 1 of the United States Code, Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade (15 U.S.C. ? 1 et seq.)

    This chapter includes among other statutory provisions the Sherman Act, comprising sections 1 to 7 of this title, the Clayton Act, comprising sections 12, 13, 14 to 19, 20, 21, and 22 to 27 of this title and sections 52 and 53 of Title 29, Labor, the Wilson Tariff Act, comprising sections 8 and 9 of this title, the Robinson-Patman Price Discrimination Act, comprising sections 13,13a, 13b and 21a of this title, the ''Expediting Act,'' sections 28 and 29 of this title, and the ''Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976,'' comprising sections 15c to 15h, 18a and 66 of this title.

Helpful Antitrust Links

Antitrust Reports