Legal Opinion
United States v. Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 17, 1997No. 96-2001PublishedCited by 147 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This case raises an important, hitherto unanswered question. In it, the United States attempts to convict a foreign corporation under the Sherman Act, a federal antitrust statute, alleging that price-fixing activities which took place entirely in Japan are prosecutable because they were intended to have, and did in fact have, substantial effects in this country. The district court, declaring that a criminal antitrust prosecution could not be based on wholly extraterritorial conduct, dismissed the indictment. See United States v. Nippon Paper Indus. Co., 944 F.Supp. 55…
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