Trends in federal antitrust doctrine suggesting future directions for state antitrust enforcement

State antitrust policy, in the form of constitutional provisions, statutes, and common law decisions, has been with us for decades.1 Originally hamstrung by restrictive court decisions fencing off state jurisdiction from commerce that was "interstate,"2 state antitrust enforcement enjoyed many years of relative slumber with an occasional foray in one or another state where the tradition had been kept alive by an activist Attorney General or a career employee who continued to believe the states had a useful role to play in antitrust enforcement.3