Under Section 1 of the Sherman Act,a corporation's employees can be guilty of a conspiracy provided they conspire with:

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It has long been held that a corporation cannot conspire with itself or its employees and that a corporation's employees cannot be guilty of a conspiracy in the absence of some independent party.Post Copperweld case (Copperweld Corp.v.Independence Tube Corp. ,U.S.Sup.Ct.1984),the courts have held that a parent company or its employees can only conspire with an independent party,not a wholly owned subsidiary or a subsidiary in which the parent has a controlling interest.Therefore,a corporation's employees can be guilty of a conspiracy under Section 1 of the Sherman Act provided they conspire with the employees of an independent,competitor firm.

Under Section 1 of the Sherman Act,a Corporation's Employees Can