…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…
The Department of Justice Antitrust Division and the Federal Communications Commission today conditionally approved a joint venture between Comcast Corp. and General Electric Co.’s subsidiary NBC Universal Inc. The joint…
…General Christine Varney, “Antitrust and Healthcare,” Remarks as Prepared for the ABA/American Health Lawyers Assoc’n “Antitrust in Healthcare” Conference, Arlington, Va., May 24, 2010, available at http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/speeches/258898.htm. MFNs Mostly Viewed…
…amended complaint alleged a mixture of parallel behaviors, details of industry structure, and industry practices that facilitated collusion, according to the appellate court. Of note was an allegation that the…
Attendees at this fall’s American Bar Association Forum on Franchising meeting should be forgiven if they left San Diego a bit confused about antitrust trends in the practice area. That’s…
A decision from a divided U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta earlier this month continues the debate over the appropriate pleading standard for antitrust plaintiffs under Bell Atlantic Corp. v….
…a number of convolutions, including a trial with a defense verdict, but the court’s summary disposition of the latest complaint seemed to stretch the law of pleading a bit too…
…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…
…successful infringement action against a rival firm that developed technology that infringed the acquired patent. A similar concern is also expressed in the Antitrust Law treatise, which argues that an…
…industry. Many of the more recent, civil non-merger actions against industry participants have targeted alleged boycotts and fee-setting arrangements by providers. Today, the U.S. Justice Department and the Michigan Attorney…
