Competition Archive » October, 2007

Competition - October, 2007

180 articles

• EU Pushes Thomson-Reuters Review Back 10 Days
• Judge Extends Oversight Of Microsoft For 3 Months
• EU Narrowly Interprets Privilege For Competition
• FCC Bans Exclusive Cable TV Deals
• Ingersoll-Rand To Pay $6.7M Over Oil-For-Food
• Airlines Take Issue With Lufthansa Settlement
• Google-DoubleClick Clears First Hurdle In Australia
• Alza Fights Bid For Attorney-Client Privileged Docs
• Bayer Fined $3.8M In Canada For Rubber Cartel
• AT&T Divests, DOJ Greenlights $2.8B Deal
• Q&A With Taylor Wessing's Michael Dietrich
• New Law Prompts Case Dismissals: Energy Cos.
• Intel Plaintiffs Balk At Tax Return Ruling
• Travel Agents Blown Off Course In Antitrust Case
• D.C. Drug Pricing Law Dies, Again
• European CFI Official Moves To Latham & Watkins
• Homebuilders Quell HUD Kickback Investigation
• Abbott Faces Antitrust Suit Over HIV Treatments
• Bird Flu Vaccine Antitrust Suit Dismissed
• FCC Seeks To Scrap Exclusive Cable Deals
• BSkyB Offers To Cede 3% Of ITV Voting Rights
• DRAM Defendants Press For Allocation Plan
• Sprint Settles Class Action, Agrees To Provide Code
• Supreme Court Will Not Hear Anti-Dumping Case
• Moody's, S&P, Fitch Subpoenaed In Antitrust Probe
• Q&A With Howrey's Alan Wiseman
• Owens Corning Merger OKd With Reservations
• EU Looking To Speed Up Cartel Settlements
• FTC Queries Blood Company Over Old Deals
• FCC's Copps Urges Review Of Dow Jones-News Deal
• Multiproduct Sellers May Test PeaceHealth Standard
• EU Court Repeals €85M Fine For Italian Cartel
• BP Pays $370M In Fines, Four Execs Indicted
• When M&A And National Security Don't Mix
• Denied Injunction, FTC Continues Whole Foods Battle
• Visy CEO Exits In Wake Of Scandal
• DOJ Ends Probe Of Hearst's Stake In MediaNews
• Tenn. Radiologists' Suit Revived After NicSand Ruling
• ACE Group Pays $4.5M to Settle Antitrust Allegations
• Antitrust Attack Against Weyerhaeuser Renewed
• House Energy Committee Takes Aim At BP
• Senators Vow To Fight Loosening Of Media Ownership
• Belgium Unveils New Leniency Guidelines
• Appeals Court Upholds Tossing Of Stone Suit
• KFTC Investigates Samsung, SK, Lotte Groups
• Verizon Drops Challenge To FCC Spectrum Rules
• U.K. Judge Denies Request For Exemplary Damages
• EU Court Says No To Volkswagen Law
• Samsung Resists Deposition Of Imprisoned Employee
• Q&A With Mayer Brown's Chris Kelly
• DOJ Sets Conditions For Newsprint Merger
• Clear Channel Concertgoer Class Certified
• BP To Pay $303M To Settle Price Manipulation Claims
• Japan's Antitrust Regulator Proposes Stiffer Fines
• Generics Fight Nifedipine Direct Purchaser Class
• Judge Chucks Antitrust Case Against Netflix
• DOJ, AGs Clash Over Microsoft Oversight Extension
• U.S., EU Gap Widens On Market Dominance
• Microsoft Gives Up, Accepts €497M Fine
• Freedom, Regulation And Net Neutrality
• Trans World Opposes Stay For Raytheon, Lockheed
• Q&A With Kilpatrick Stockton's Connie Robinson
• Q&A With Cleary Gottlieb's David Gelfand
• Non-Public Entities Won't Pay Refunds In Energy Crisis
• New Standard for Bundled Discounts Clear But Limited
• Health Care Providers Lose Bid To Toss Antitrust Case
• EU Seeks Comments On SkyTeam Proposal
• Q&A With King & Spalding's Kevin Sullivan
• Q&A With Axinn, Veltrop's John Harkrider
• Judge Tosses Vendor's Price Discrimination Claims
• EU Threatens Malta With ECJ Action
• Q&A With Dickstein Shapiro's Bruce Holcomb
• France Targeted For Noncompliance With Energy Rule
• FTC Opposes Antitrust Exemption For Pharmacists
• FDA Nets New Counsel Masoudi From DOJ
• Freight Co. Pleads Guilty In Bid-Rigging Probe
• S.C. Brokers Forced To Change Membership Rules
• Appeals Court Nixes Antitrust Suit Against 3M
• Lufthansa Close To Settlement In Price-Fixing Case
• Rambus Asks Court To Reject Micron's Counterclaims
• DRAM Plaintiffs Ask To Depose Ex-Samsung Execs
• DRAM Price-Fixing Claim Not Time Barred: Judge
• EU Orders Repeal Of Tariffs By French Card Group
• Q&A With Latham Watkins' Margaret Zwisler
• Third Circuit Affirms FCC's High-Speed Internet Order
• Concentrated Media Leaves Competition Concerns
• Microsoft Wants To Yank Appeal Of KFTC Ruling
• EU Turns Hourglass Back Over For Intel
• Major Music Cos. Renew Dismissal Push
• In Sports, Off-Court Battles Rage Over League Power
• U.S. Failed To Cancel Cotton Subsidies, WTO Rules
• Eviction Co. Must Respond In Homeless Workers Suit
• Caterpillar Sues Aon Over Insurance Practices
• Q&A With Greenberg Traurig's James Ian Serota
• Clothing Co. Merge Flunked HSR Requirement: DOJ
• ITC Votes To Extend Anti-Dumping Steel Duties
• Oxycontin Maker Says Patents Are Enforceable
• Court Greenlights Novell's Suit Against Microsoft
• Corporate Fraud Is Not Constructed By Plaintiffs' Bar
• Regulators Hit France Telecom With €45M Fine
• Q&A With Chadbourne & Parke's William D'Amico
• Arbitrator Should Unravel Yarn Case: Court
• Chip Makers Defend Their Right To Antitrust Trial
• Abbott Wants U.S. To Cough Up Docs In AWP Suit
• Plaintiffs Resist Intel's Bid For Financial Records
• Second Antitrust Class Against Comcast Is Certified
• Apple Slammed With Suits Over iPhone Restrictions
• J&J Wins Dismissals In Ditropan XL Litigation
• DRAM Plaintiffs Seek Preliminary Settlement Approval
• EC Can't Require Ryanair To Surrender Stake
• Judge Grants Union's Bid To Toss USIS' Complaint
• Plaintiffs Buck Ruling In Insurance Antitrust Case
• Barr Strikes Back At Celgene In Thalomid Spat
• German Competition Regulators Raid Bayer
• EU Approves Distrigas Commitments To Open Market
• Mayer Brown Woos Two Morgan Lewis Lawyers
• Court Sticks To Ruling In Real Estate Listing Suit
• Q&A With Schnader Harrison's Judith F. Olson
• Union, Contractors Want Antitrust Suit Tossed
• Flexsys Pushes For Final Dismissal Of Antitrust Suit
• Freight Forwarders Face Global Pricing Probe
• Defense Contractors Look To Push Back Discovery
• Two Marine-Hose Defendants Seek Dismissal
• DOJ Web Site Advocates Real-Estate Competition
• On The Merits Of Private Attorney General Suits
• SEC To Look At Competition In Credit Rating Industry
• Iowa Takes On Drug Industry In New AWP Suit
• Jones Day's Antitrust Group Adds Five New Partners
• High Court Denies Cert For Walker Process Review
• EU Takes In-Depth Look At Thomson-Reuters Union
• Visy To Shell Out $36M For Devising Box Cartel
• State Attorney General Class Actions Raise Concerns
• Travel Agents Defend Case Against Airline Attacks
• Visa Asks Again For Amex's "Cannibalization" Data
• Connecticut Takes Aim At Marsh & McLennan Unit
• Intel Requests More Time To Answer EU Allegations
• Q&A With Gibson Dunn's Sean Royall
• Abbott Fights Bid To Depose Ex-Pres In AWP Suit
• Q&A With Kaye Scholer's Saul P. Morgenstern
• Centerpoint Seeks Dismissal From 3rd MDL Case
• EMI Music Settles Antitrust Suit
• Visa Will Appeal €10.2M Fine
• German Court Fines Siemens €201M
• Q&A With Michael Best's John E. Flanagan
• Q&A With McGuireWoods' James H. Walsh
• Edwards Calls For Stronger Antitrust, Pricing Laws
• Q&A With Foley Hoag's Lisa Wood
• Marathon Price-Gouging Suit Sent Back To Ky.
• Learning From Microsoft On Doing Business In Europe
• JFTC Shines Light On Anti-Competitive IP Practices
• Senator Opposes Ban On Retail-Owned Banks
• EU Clears Marriage Of Sony, Bertelsmann—Again
• Madison Square Garden Cries Foul Play At NHL
• FTC Drops Bid To Block Western Refining Merger
• Visa Fined €10.2M For Barring Morgan Stanley
• NFL Players' New Complaint To Be Kept Secret
• Spanish Bitumen Cartel Hit With €183M Fine
• Guidelines For Avoiding Anti-Competitive Bundling
• Haviland Leaves Suit With Sour Note For Berman
• Q&A With WilmerHale's Bill Kolasky
• Q&A With McDermott Will's Raymond A. Jacobsen Jr.
• South Africa Works Kinks Out Of Leniency Program
• Becton Settles Antitrust Suit Over Sharps Containers
• Telecoms Face Off Over Special Access Market
• Judge Sides With Dentsply In Antitrust Case
• Feds Reject $9.5B Nuclear Decommissioning Deal
• DRAM Defendants Seek To Toss Plaintiffs' Accusations
• Regulator Says BSkyB Stake In ITV Anti-Competitive
• Bankruptcy Canceled Antitrust Claims, United Says
• York Pays $22M To Settle Oil-For-Food Charges
• Weeks Into Trial, Oil-For-Food Honcho Pleads Guilty
• Microsoft v. Commission: Back To The Basics
• Ruling Brings An End To Insurance Antitrust Suit
• Marathon Prevails In Tying, Price-Fixing Class Action
• Q&A With Labaton Sucharow's Bernard Persky
• All American Semiconductor Settles With Mitsubishi
• Forcing Divestitures, FTC Gives Nod To Mylan Deal
• EU Investigates Qualcomm's Alleged Antitrust Abuses
• Becton Dickinson Targeted Hospital CEOs: Suit
• Supreme Court Won't Hear Rambus Antitrust Case