Within the span of about two weeks, each of the federal antitrust agencies has been handed a major win in their merger enforcement efforts.
Last Friday, it was the Federal Trade Commission's turn…
A price fixing action filed by the State of Mississippi as the sole named plaintiff was not a "mass action" under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), even though the state sought restitution for…
Last week, the federal district court in San Francisco ruled that Bazaarvoice Inc.'s June 2012 acquisition of PowerReviews Inc. violated Sec. 7 of the Clayton Act. In a "necessarily lengthy Opinion,"…
Two of the most significant conferences on the antitrust calendar were held last week. Georgetown Law Center featured its Seventh Annual Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium on September 25, and…
The Department of Justice Antitrust Division on Friday filed its proposed remedy with the federal district court in New York City, addressing Apple Inc.'s role in a conspiracy among publishers to fix…
Apple Inc. played a central role in facilitating and executing a conspiracy among publishers to fix retail prices for electronic books, or e-books, the federal district court in New York City decided…
Consumers and small businesses that are parties to contracts containing arbitration agreements will find it tougher, if not impossible, to avoid the terms of those agreements and pursue an antitrust…
Terrell McSweeny, Chief Counsel for Competition Policy and Intergovernmental Relations at the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, is President Obama's pick to fill the current vacancy on five…
A “reverse payment” settlement agreement is not entitled to “near-automatic antitrust immunity” simply because its anticompetitive effects fall within the scope of the exclusionary potential of the…
