Every person, corporation, joint-stock company, limited liability company, or other association engaged in business within this state which enters into any contract, combination, or conspiracy or which gives any direction or authority to do any act for the purpose of driving out of business any other person engaged therein or which for such purpose in the course of such business sells any article or product at less than its fair market value or at a less price than it is accustomed to demand or receive therefor in any other place under like conditions or which sells any article upon a condition, contract, or understanding that it shall not be sold again by the purchaser or restrains such sale by the purchaser shall be deemed guilty of a Class IV felony.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 59-805
Restraint of trade; underselling; penalty
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 4 Neb. Ct. App. 316 - Swain Construction, Inc. v. Ready Mixed Concrete Co. (1996)
Most recently applied in 16 F. App'x 536 - Oak Grove Farm Ltd. Partnership v. Conagra, Inc. (June 2001)
Laws 1905, c. 162, § 6, p. 638; R.S.1913, § 4050; C.S.1922, § 3453; C.S.1929, § 59-806; R.S.1943, § 59-805; Laws 1977, LB 39, § 65; Laws 1983, LB 32, § 3; Laws 1993, LB 121, § 360.
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