…cosmetics company– Bioelements, Inc.–agreed to settle a complaint brought by the State of California, alleging that the company engaged in vertical price fixing in per se violation of the California…
…network. It will be managed and 51 percent owned by Comcast, with GE holding 49 percent ownership. Comcast’s control of the NBC Universal programming raises antitrust concerns, since Comcast’s rivals…
…throughout Michigan by inhibiting hospitals from negotiating competitive contracts with its competitors. In particular, according to the complaint, the MFNs have harmed competition by (1) reducing the ability of other…
…opinion authored by Judge Richard Posner, rejected the defending service providers’ argument that, as in Twombly, the complaint here alleged merely that the defendants were not competing as opposed to…
…the “passive” antitrust enforcement of the previous administration; has promised energetic enforcement in areas including intellectual property; and has expressly repudiated the Bush administration’s lenient policy on the enforcement of…
…rule of reason analysis. Under rule of reason analysis, the complaining consumers had to show either actual or potential harm to competition. Regardless of whether the consumers alleged actual or…
The recent decision in Coalition for a Level Playing Field, LLC v. Autozone, Inc., 2010-2 Trade Cas. ¶ 77,182 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 16, 2010) was a bit surprising to me. The…
…complaining competitors adequately alleged an antitrust injury resulting from the other alleged anticompetitive conduct, including bribery, bid rigging, and allocating customers. It did not follow that the complaining firms lacked…
…merger will diminish innovation competition by combining two of a very small number of firms with the strongest capabilities to successfully innovate in a specific direction. The Agencies evaluate the…
…40 percent more than they charge Blue Cross. The government contends that these MFN-plus clauses “guarantee that Blue Cross’s competitors cannot obtain hospital services at prices comparable to the prices…
