Per Se Schedule

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The United States Supreme Court has, in the past, determined activities such as price fixing, retail price maintenance, geographic market division, group boycotts, and tying arrangements to be illegal per se regardless of the reasonableness of such actions.

The term illegal per se means that the act is inherently illegal.

Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 441 U.S.1 (1979); Nat's Collegiate Athletic Assn v.

Pacific Stationery & Printing Co., 472 U.S.284, 289 (1985); and FTC v.

Acts are made illegal per se by statute, constitution, or case law.Many drunk driving laws make driving with a blood alcohol content over a certain limit (such as 0.05% or 0.08%) an act which is illegal per se.In the United States, illegal per se often refers to categories of Anti competition law behavior in antitrust law conclusively presumed to be an "unreasonable restraint on trade" and thus anti competitive.

Thus, an act is illegal without extrinsic proof of any surrounding circumstances such as lack of scienter (knowledge) or other defenses.

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