1.   And that could give the states broad immunity from environmental laws, copyright, patent, bankruptcy and antitrust statutes.

2.   -- The Supreme Court said it will decide whether U.S. antitrust statutes outlaw price-fixing agreements that keep prices low.

3.   A U.S. District Court judge ruled in favor of the league last July, ruling that the dispute should be decided under labor law, not antitrust statutes.

4.   In the United States, the measures designed to ensure that firms compete with one another for the benefit of consumers are known as the antitrust statutes.

5.   Karmazin and Michael H. Jordan, the chairman of Westinghouse, said they were confident the merger would not violate antitrust statutes.

6.   Otherwise, he said, the companies would risk running afoul of antitrust statutes.

7.   Some of the damages will be tripled under state antitrust statutes, Simpson said.

8.   The antitrust statutes are very short--just a few vague and badly worded sentences.

9.   The commission also used its ruling on the deal to lay out its view of how the antitrust statute should be applied to future telecommunications mergers.

10.   The states are acting under their own antitrust laws, which are modeled on national antitrust statutes.