A person shall not attempt to establish or establish, maintain, or use a monopoly of trade or commerce in a relevant market for the purpose of excluding competition or of controlling, fixing, or maintaining prices.
Iowa Code § 553.5
Monopoly prohibited
Known as the Iowa Competition Law
The act spans §§ 553–553 (19 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 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 (2012)
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, §553.5]
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.