This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purposes in harmony with judicial interpretation of comparable federal statutory provisions.
Va. Code Ann. § 59.1-9.17
Construction of chapter
Known as the Virginia Antitrust Act
The act spans §§ 59.1-9.1 to 59.1-9.9 (18 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Oksanen v. Page Memorial Hospital (1991)
Most recently applied in In re Packaged Seafood Products Antitrust Litigation (September 2017)
1974, c. 545.
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: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.