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Calif. antitrust reform proposed as AG tests limits of Cartwright Act

By Alex Wilts ( February 19, 2026, 22:45 GMT | Comment) -- The first legislation to emerge from the California Law Revision Commission’s review of state competition laws would broaden California’s primary antitrust statute, the Cartwright Act, to cover anticompetitive conduct by a single company — even as the state is testing the limits of the current law in its case against Amazon.The first legislation to emerge from the California Law Revision Commission’s review of state competition laws would broaden California’s primary antitrust statute to tackle anticompetitive conduct by a single company — even as the state is testing the limits of the current law in its case against Amazon....

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