A contract, combination, or conspiracy between two or more persons shall not restrain or monopolize trade or commerce in a relevant market.
Iowa Code § 553.4
Restraint prohibited
Known as the Iowa Competition Law
The act spans §§ 553–553 (19 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Amended June 5, 2015 Steven A. Mueller, Bradley J. Brown, Mark A. Kruse, Kevin D. Miller, and Larry E. Phipps, on Behalf of Themselves and Those Like Situated v. Wellmark, Inc. D/B/A Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa, an Iowa Corporation, and Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc., an Iowa Corporation (2015)
Most recently applied in Rimas Nemickas, M.D. v. Linn County Anesthesiologists, P.C. (May 2018)
[C97, §5060, 5061; S13, §5067-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §9906, 9907, 9915; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, §553.1, 553.2, 553.10; C77, 79, 81, §553.4]
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Iowa Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Iowa statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.