Pan Asia Venture Capital Corp. v. Hearst Corp.
California Court of Appeal
[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SEPULVEDA, J.
One provision of California’s Unfair Practices Act specifies that “It is unlawful for any person engaged in business within this State to sell any article or product at less than the cost thereof . . . for the purpose of injuring competitors or destroying competition.” (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17043. 1 ) The fundamental issue here is how to compute the cost of news paper advertising space in a major metropolitan market. A complicating factor is that, for all practical purposes, there are only two actors in that market.
An unbroken line of decisional authority holds that just…
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