---
title: "US antitrust compliance policy"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/competition-and-consumer-law/us-antitrust-compliance-policy"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a29-us-antitrust-compliance-policy"
area_id: "A29"
kind: "policy"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A29-T1-R2", "A29-T1-R3", "A29-A20260923-3"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# US antitrust compliance policy

> Company policy built around Sherman Act section 1 as opened, including the felony penalty. Company rules on prices, output, customers, markets and bids are labelled as company rules, not as case holdings.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/competition-and-consumer-law/us-antitrust-compliance-policy  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

- Kind: Policy. A policy or procedure for a firm or client.
- Practice area: [Competition & Consumer Law](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/competition-and-consumer-law.md)
- Jurisdictions: United States
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the authority it cites, for United States.

## When to use it

Use when a company wants a written rule for personnel who deal with competitors. Do not use it to decide whether an agreement restrains trade, or to clear a collaboration.

## Used for these tasks

- [Screen an agreement for cartel or competitor-collaboration risk](https://ailawframework.com/practice/competition-and-consumer-law/screen-an-agreement-for-cartel-or-competitor-collaboration-risk.md)
- [Build an information-exchange and concerted-practices screen](https://ailawframework.com/practice/competition-and-consumer-law/build-an-information-exchange-and-concerted-practices-screen.md)
- [Compare a collaboration or JV paper with the no-poach and information-sharing rules](https://ailawframework.com/practice/competition-and-consumer-law/compare-a-collaboration-or-jv-paper-with-the-no-poach-and-information-sh.md)

## How AI may be used

Yellow: the lawyer adopts the company rules and makes any judgement about a particular arrangement.

**AI may:**

- Quote section 1 and the penalty that was read.
- State company rules against agreeing prices, output, customers, markets or bids with a competitor.
- Send any competitor contact to the lawyer before it happens, where the company wants that control.

**AI must not:**

- Do not decide that an arrangement is a contract, combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade.
- Do not label any category as per se unlawful. No case was opened for that label.
- Do not write a collaboration opinion or a no-poach analysis.
- Do not describe monopolisation. Section 2 was not opened.

**The lawyer checks:**

- Read section 1 against the arrangement. The policy does not do that reading.
- Decide which competitor contacts need advance clearance.
- If a deal needs a clean team, use the separate protocol and do not treat this policy as that protocol.

## Authorities

- [15 U.S.C. § 1](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/competition-and-consumer-law/us-antitrust-compliance-policy and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*