Each sale at a conspiratorially fixed price is a new overt act starting a fresh limitations period for that transaction. Damages are limited to the four years preceding suit regardless.
Continued effects of a completed act do not suffice.
Alternative Names:
Continuing Conspiracy|Continuing Violation Doctrine (Antitrust)
Why it Matters?
Damages remain limited to the four-year window even where the conspiracy continued longer, which means the doctrine preserves the claim's viability without expanding recovery beyond that period, and defendants should confirm the damages calculation respects it. Mere continuing effects of a completed act do not restart the period, which defeats claims resting on ongoing consequences of a conspiracy that ended.
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Does the doctrine expand recovery?
What does not restart the period?
