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Alabama Antitrust Laws

The provision which govern Antitrust law in Alabama is Code of Ala. § 6-5-60.  According to this code, private action is permissible, but one cannot recover attorney fees.  However damages are laid out in the statute.  The statute has not specified the limitation period.  The Alabama Antitrust law reads as follows:

§ 6-5-60.  Generally.

  (a) Any person, firm, or corporation injured or damaged by an unlawful trust, combine or monopoly, or its effect, direct or indirect, may, in each instance of such injury or damage, recover the sum of $500 and all actual damages from any person, firm, or corporation creating, operating, aiding, or abetting such trust, combine, or monopoly and may commence the action therefor against any one or more of the parties to the trust, combine, or monopoly, or their attorneys, officers, or agents, who aid or abet such trust, combine, or monopoly. All such actions may be prosecuted to final judgment against any one or more of the defendants thereto, notwithstanding there may be a dismissal, acquittal, verdict, or judgment in favor of one or more of the defendants.

(b) Actions under this section may be commenced in any county where the trust, combine, or monopoly was formed or where it exists or is carried on, promoted, operated, practiced, employed, used, or enjoyed, or in any county in which either of the defendants may have a domicile or where an officer or agent of any defendant corporation may be found.”


Inside Alabama Antitrust Laws