AntitrustConnect Blog Excerpt Feed http://antitrustconnect.com Fri, 25 May 2012 17:25:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 en http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Recent Developments in German Competition Law http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AntitrustconnectBlogExcerpt/~3/sUzhS9rANaY/ http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/05/25/recent-developments-in-german-competition-law/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 17:21:45 +0000 Silvio Cappellari and Maria Held http://antitrustconnect.com/?p=642 Continue reading →]]> by Silvio Cappellari and Maria Held

In recent months, again there have been major developments in German competition law. Some of these developments have unfolded in high-tech industries, such as chipboard panel manufacturing, online video services and telecommunications, while others have arisen in more traditional contexts. … Continue reading →

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Earlier this month, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the reasonableness of a vertical price fixing agreement is not to be considered when determining whether such an agreement violates the Kansas Restraint of Trade Act (KRTA). Kansas Supreme Court precedent … Continue reading →

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]]> http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/05/15/kansas-supreme-court-condemns-vertical-price-fixing-agreements-as-per-se-illegal/feed/ http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/05/15/kansas-supreme-court-condemns-vertical-price-fixing-agreements-as-per-se-illegal/ Antitrust Division Workload Statistics Show Increase in Merger Filings, Enforcement Actions http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AntitrustconnectBlogExcerpt/~3/JbE6STDw128/ http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/05/03/antitrust-division-workload-statistics-show-increase-in-merger-filings-enforcement-actions/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 20:03:18 +0000 Jeffrey May http://antitrustconnect.com/?p=612 Continue reading →]]> by Jeffrey May

The Department of Justice Antitrust Division opened 90 merger investigations and filed 13 merger cases in Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 (October 1, 2010, to September 30, 2011). The uptick in enforcement activity over the past couple of years was in … Continue reading →

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The U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta today rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s challenge to a patent litigation settlement between brand name and generic drug companies as an unlawful agreement not to compete in violation of Section 5(a) of the … Continue reading →

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]]> http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/04/25/eleventh-circuit-rejects-ftc%e2%80%99s-approach-to-pay-for-delay-settlements-as-%e2%80%9cturducken-task%e2%80%9d/feed/ http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/04/25/eleventh-circuit-rejects-ftc%e2%80%99s-approach-to-pay-for-delay-settlements-as-%e2%80%9cturducken-task%e2%80%9d/ Highlights of the 2012 ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AntitrustconnectBlogExcerpt/~3/3KAPjDITilI/ http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/04/09/highlights-of-the-2012-aba-antitrust-spring-meeting/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:41:52 +0000 Christopher Sagers http://antitrustconnect.com/?p=587 Continue reading →]]> by Christopher Sagers

Ah, the Spring Meeting.  God I love it. Admittedly, the ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting, perhaps the profession’s preeminent event, is in some respects getting to be just a bit of a circus.  What were once a handful of calm, … Continue reading →

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The federal district court in New York City should not have rejected allegations that a magazine wholesaler was driven out of business as a result of an antitrust conspiracy, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City decided earlier … Continue reading →

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]]> http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/04/05/second-circuit-corrects-misapplication-of-twombly-plausibility-test-in-boycott-case/feed/ http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/04/05/second-circuit-corrects-misapplication-of-twombly-plausibility-test-in-boycott-case/ BREAKING NEWS: Rand Paul Proposes to Repeal Federal Antitrust as to “Individuals” http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AntitrustconnectBlogExcerpt/~3/JQJga1gF3rU/ http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/04/04/breaking-news-rand-paul-proposes-to-repeal-federal-antitrust-as-to-%e2%80%9cindividuals%e2%80%9d/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:48:13 +0000 Christopher Sagers http://antitrustconnect.com/?p=568 Continue reading →]]> by Christopher Sagers

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, the freshman Republican and Tea Party favorite, is only slightly more famous as the son of Representative Ron Paul than as the deliberate namesake of Ayn Rand.  Last Thursday he introduced a genuine humdinger. Deploying … Continue reading →

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]]> http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/04/04/breaking-news-rand-paul-proposes-to-repeal-federal-antitrust-as-to-%e2%80%9cindividuals%e2%80%9d/feed/ http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/04/04/breaking-news-rand-paul-proposes-to-repeal-federal-antitrust-as-to-%e2%80%9cindividuals%e2%80%9d/ One to Watch: SCOTUS Consideration in Phoebe Putney? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AntitrustconnectBlogExcerpt/~3/kSzkQUSFWJU/ http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/03/23/one-to-watch-scotus-consideration-in-phoebe-putney/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:08:34 +0000 Christopher Sagers http://antitrustconnect.com/?p=552 Continue reading →]]> by Christopher Sagers

The next Term may see significant SCOTUS consideration of the state action immunity, the first such case since 1992. The decision below in the defendants’ favor was quite plainly wrong, and so it might also become only the second antitrust … Continue reading →

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In a recent letter to the House Transportation and Infrastructure leadership, all four sitting Federal Trade Commissioners joined in “grave concern” over that Committee’s plan to kick the agency out of the iconic, art deco building that FDR built for … Continue reading →

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]]> http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/03/22/competition-policy-in-bizzaro-land-the-ongoing-ftc-building-fiasco/feed/ http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/03/22/competition-policy-in-bizzaro-land-the-ongoing-ftc-building-fiasco/ Prospects Dim for Quick Passage of NOPEC, Railroad Antitrust Exemption Repeal http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AntitrustconnectBlogExcerpt/~3/E-IYQ0FoNy4/ http://antitrustconnect.com/2012/03/08/prospects-dim-for-quick-passage-of-nopec-railroad-antitrust-exemption-repeal/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:55:37 +0000 Jeffrey May http://antitrustconnect.com/?p=532 Continue reading →]]> by Jeffrey May

Federal legislative proposals that would have repealed the antitrust exemption enjoyed by freight railroads and would have permitted the U.S. Department of Justice to sue Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members for price fixing will not pass the Senate … Continue reading →

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