Statutory Scaffolding9 TITLES 15 U.S.C. § 1Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 (1890)
Sherman Antitrust Act: Restraint of Trade & Horizontal Collusion
SYSTEMIC ARCHITECTURE:Protects market competition from algorithmic price coordination across digital and enterprise marketplaces.
Section 1Horizontal Price-Fixing Prohibition
“Prohibits agreements among competitors to fix, stabilize, or coordinate market prices.”
Judicial Interpretation: Applied in DOJ v. RealPage to algorithms that pool non-public competitor data to set market rates.