Chris Sagers

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University

Assistant Professor of Law

2121 Euclid Avenue, LB 138

Cleveland, OH 44115-2214

United States

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1.

Faith-Based Financial Regulation: A Primer on Oversight of Credit Rating Organizations

Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 09-171
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Apr 2009
Thomas James Fitzpatrick and Chris Sagers
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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credit crisis, credit rating agencies, financial regulation, economic regulation, financial intermediaries, financial markets

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The Myth of 'Privatization'

Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 05-120
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 04 Nov 2005
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Privatization

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Letter to Gavin Newsom in Reply to the NCAA: Constitutionality of California SB 206, the 'Fair Pay to Play Act'

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 11 Oct 2019
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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NCAA, Amateurism, O'Bannon, Alston, College Athletics, College Sports, Player Compensation

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Antitrust and Tech Monopoly: A General Introduction to Competition Problems in Big Data Platforms: Testimony Before the Committee on the Judiciary of the Ohio Senate

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Oct 2019
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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antitrust, big tech, online platform, valentine act

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Amicus Brief of Antitrust Scholars, Supporting Plaintiffs, in O'Bannon V. NCAA, Nos. 14-16601, 14-17068 (9th Cir. Jan. 28, 2015)

Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 2557234
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 Jan 2015
K. Craig Wildfang, Ryan W. Marth and Chris Sagers
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P., Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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OBannon, O'Bannon, NCAA, National Collegiate Athletic Association, antitrust, rule of reason, less restrictive alternative, Wilken, college sports, college athletes, student athletes, sports, athletics

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Apple, Antitrust, and Irony

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 15 Nov 2016
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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The Worst Opinion in Living Memory: AT&T/Time Warner and America’s Broken Merger Law

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Mar 2019
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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AT&T, AT&T Time Warner, Antitrust, Merger, Vertical Merger, Bargaining Theory, Leverage Theory, Foreclosure

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Too Big to Fail: The Role for Antitrust and Bankruptcy Law in Financial Regulation Reform, Part II

Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 09-181
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 08 Jan 2010
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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financial regulation, financial regulatory reform, Treasury financial regulatory reform bill, Frank financial regulatory reform bill, implied repeal, credit suisse, trinko, antitrust and financial sector, antitrust

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'Rarely Tried, and . . . Rarely Successful': Theoretically Impossible Price Predation among the Airlines

Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 09-172
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 26 Mar 2009
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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predatory pricing, antitrust, monopolization, exclusionary conduct, airlines, deregulation

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Coty, Amazon, and the Future of Vertical Restraints: Evolving Distribution Norms on Both Atlantic Shores

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Sep 2018
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Coty, ECJ, EU law, European competition law, vertical restraints, RPM, Amazon, Sylvania, retail distribution

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O’Bannon v. National Collegiate Athletic Association: Why the Ninth Circuit Should Not Block the Floodgates of Change in College Athletics

71 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 299, Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 2575764
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Mar 2015
Michael A. Carrier and Chris Sagers
Rutgers Law School and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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NCAA, O'Bannon, college sports, right of publicity, antitrust, rule of reason, amateurism, less restrictive alternatives

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Antitrust Immunity and Standard Setting Organizations: A Case Study in the Use of Liberal Models to Cope with Private Power

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Apr 2005
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Antitrust, immunity, standard setting, noerr-pennington, midcal, state action, liberalism, public-private distinction

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Platforms, American Express, and the Problem of Complexity in Antitrust

Nebraska Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Mar 2019
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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American Express, Ohio v American Express, platforms, two-sided markets, networks, vertical restraints

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A Statute by Any Other (Non-Acronomial) Name Might Smell Less Like S.P.A.M., or, The Congress of the United States Grows Increasingly D.U.M.B.

Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 08-151
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Statutes, statute names, legislation, congress, satire, can-spam

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The Evolving Federal Approach to Private Legislation and the Twilight of Government

Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-117
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 26 Oct 2004
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Standards, standard setting organizations, standards development organizations, SSOs, SDOs, technology, American National Standards Institute, ANSI, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, National Bureau of Standards, NBS, public private distinction, privatization, outsourcing

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Antitrust, Political Economy, and the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 24 Sep 2018
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Kavanaugh, Supreme Court, Antitrust, Lochner

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The Identity of Moral and Legal Criticism: A Farewell

Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-115
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 Sep 2005
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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legal philosophy, philosophy, jurisprudence, skepticism, postmodernism, modernism, nihilism, solipsism, self-doubt, Schlag, Pyrrho, pyrrhonism, despair, existentialism

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The Alston Case: Why the NCAA Did not Deserve Antitrust Immunity and Did not Succeed under a Rule-of-Reason Analysis

28 George Mason Law Review 1461 (2021)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Aug 2021
Michael A. Carrier and Chris Sagers
Rutgers Law School and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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NCAA, student-athletes, antitrust, amateurism, Alston

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#LOLNothingMatters

Antitrust Bulliten, Vol. 63, No. 1, 2018
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Jul 2018
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Monopoly Problem, No-Fault Monopoly, Deconcentration, Merger, Clayton Act § 7, Competition As Political Compromise, A Better Deal, Post-Consummation Merger Review

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Why Copperweld Was Actually Kind of Dumb: Sound, Fury, and the Once and Still Missing Antitrust Theory of the Firm?

Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 17, 2011, Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 11-206
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 22 Feb 2011
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Copperweld, American Needle, Single Entity, Sherman Act, Section 1, Antitrust, Competition, Competition Policy, Joint Venture, Integration, Professional Sports, Sports Leagues, Major Leagues

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American Needle, Dagher, and the Evolving Antitrust Theory of the Firm: What Will Become of Section 1?

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Research Paper No. 09-176
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 05 Sep 2009
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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antitrust, American Needle, National Football League, professional sports, single entity, intraenterprise conspiracy, conspiracy

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Standardization and Markets: Just Exactly Who is the Government, and Why Should Antitrust Care?

Oregon Law Review, Vol. 89, 2011, Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 11-205
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 22 Feb 2011
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Standards, Standardization, Standard Setting Organizations, Antitrust, Competition, Competition Policy, Public Private Distinction, Privatization

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Brief of Amici Curiae 65 Professors of Law, Business, Economics, and Sports Management in Support of Respondents

Supreme Court brief in NCAA v. Alston and American Athletic Conference v. Alston, Rutgers Law School Research Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 10 Mar 2021
Michael A. Carrier and Chris Sagers
Rutgers Law School and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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NCAA, College Sports, Amateurism, Antitrust, Rule of Reason, Antitrust Immunity, Board of Regents

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Much Ado About Probably Pretty Little: Mccarran-Ferguson Repeal in the Pending Health Reform Legislation

Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 28, 2010, Cleveland State Law Review Research Paper No. 10-184
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Mar 2010
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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mccarran ferguson act, insurance, antitrust, antitrust, exemptions, health care

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Why Do Corporations Merge, and Why Should Law Care?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Mar 2021
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Merger, acquisition, corporate theory, market for corporate control, antitrust, efficient capital markets, agency cost, theory of the firm,

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Proliferating Rules of Per se Legality in Antitrust: The Great Swiss Cheese and the Myth of Theoretical Unification

Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 09-177
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Sep 2009
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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antitrust, Sherman Act, Chicago school, neoclassical price theory, economics

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Who Should Conservatives Blame for Alex Jones’ Ban from Social Media? Themselves

Slate Online
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 29 Aug 2018
Robert H. Lande and Chris Sagers
University of Baltimore - School of Law and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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mergers, AT&T-Time Warner, antitrust and social media, monopoly, monopoly power, Facebook and Antitrust, Alex Jones and Antitrust

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Raising the Price of Pork in Texas: A Few Thoughts on Ghosh, Bush, and the Future of the Antitrust Immunities

Houston Law Review, 2008, Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 08-152
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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airlines, antitrust, Love Field, Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, Dallas Fort Worth Airport, antitrust immunity, state action immunity, noerr-pennington, regulated industries

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Monism, Nominalism, and Public-Private in the Work of Margaret Radin

Cleveland State Law Review, Vol. 54, p. 219, 2006, Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 06-130
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Nov 2006
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Margaret Jane Radin, Radin, Public-Private Distinction, Privatization, Governance

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Understanding the Recurrent Crisis in Legal Romanticism: Two Criteria for Coherent Doubt

Washington University Jurisprudence Review, Vol. 2, 2010, Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 10-185
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Mar 2010
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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jurisprudence, Pierre Schlag, legal iconoclasm, skepticism, critical legal studies, legal pragmatism, critical race theory

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The Legal Structure of American Freedom and the Provenance of the Antitrust Immunities

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 19 Apr 2005
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Antitrust, immunity, standard setting, petition, first amendment, slapp, pring, canaan

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Competition Come Full Circle? Pending Legislation to Repeal the U.S. Railroad Exemptions

Competition Policy Institute, GCP: The Antitrust Chronicle, Forthcoming, Cleveland Marshall College of Law, Paper No. 09-180
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 14 Sep 2009
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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antitrust, exemptions & immunities, railroads, transportation, infrastructure

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A Tale of Two Panels: The Size of the Chancellor's Foot in Text Messaging and Potash

Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronicle, No. 1, November 2011, Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 11-236
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 30 Nov 2011
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Twombly, Iqbal, Twiqbal, Potash, Text Messaging, Pleading, Conspiracy, Antitrust, Price Fixing, Oligopoly, Plus-Factors, Posner, Dispositive Motions, Motions to Dismiss

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Urgent: Serious (and Apparently Inadvertent) HSR Exemptions in the Senate Financial Reform Package

American Antitrust Institute Letter to United States Senate, May 11, 2010, Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 10-190
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 26 Aug 2010
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
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Legal Boundaries as Political Economy: The Scope of Antitrust and a General Theory of the Regulation-Competition Dichotomy

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2013
Chris Sagers
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University

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