Mississippi Antitrust Laws

• Restrain trade
• Monopolize production, control, or sale of goods or management or control of any kind of business
• Limit, increase, or reduce the price, production, or output of a commodity
• Hinder competition or unite interests in the production, importation, manufacture, transportation, sale or purchase of a good
• Knowingly issue, own, or hold stock certificates of any trust as described here
• Control business earnings contrary to these antitrust laws
• Enable anyone else to control business against antitrust laws
• Destroy competition in the manufacture or sale of a commodity by selling at a lower price at one part of the state and a higher price in another, except when for reasonable freight, higher rents, and other expenses

Public contract fraud is also prohibited. Corporations and individuals can’t combine with others to bid on public contracts to exclude other companies or individuals from bidding on public works (state, county, or city) or pursued others not to bid.

• Injunction – The chancery court can enter an injunction prohibiting these acts. The attorney general or local district attorney usually brings these lawsuits.
• Unenforceable Contracts – Contracts that are made in violation of anti-trust laws are void and unenforceable.
• Losing Right to Do Business – A business caught violating these antitrust in Mississippi can lose the right to do business in the state.

Public contract fraud is a misdemeanor with a fine of $25 to $1,000.

Failure to comply with subpoena requests from a court (usually to prove antitrust actions) is considered contempt of court and punished by a fine of $1,000 to $2,000.