http://www.law360.com/competition Latest articles for: Competition Copyright 2012 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:25:02 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308866 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308866 A New York bankruptcy judge on Friday agreed to allow potential antitrust class actions against once-bankrupt automotive supplier Lear Corp. to proceed, but only allowed the plaintiffs to file claims based on alleged conduct that occurred after Lear exited bankruptcy. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:55:30 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308860 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308860 SAIC Inc. and its directors were hit Friday with a putative shareholder derivative class action in California over $232 million in losses stemming from an alleged kickback scheme involving contractors tied to New York City's CityTime project, a scandal that led to the indictments of several of its employees. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:45:04 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308088 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308088 With its globe-spanning presence and hundreds of dedicated antitrust specialists, Baker & McKenzie LLP glided easily to the top of Law360's list of the largest competition groups around the world. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:26:21 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308699 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308699 Jailed HealthSouth Corp. founder Richard Scrushy on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on his conviction in an alleged bribery scheme involving former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, saying the case breaks new legal ground. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:20:35 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/307167 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/307167 Law360's ranking of the firms with the largest competition practices show many of the leading white-shoe outfits have robust antitrust groups. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:19:01 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308690 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308690 France's competition watchdog laid out final guidelines Friday explaining how the country's antitrust settlement process works, including allowing defendants to combine fine reductions for not contesting antitrust allegations with those offered for leniency filings. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:37:14 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308652 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308652 The Second Circuit on Friday revived an inventor's malpractice claim against Cowan Liebowitz & Latman PC for allegedly sharing her trade secrets with Clear Channel Communications Inc. and Live Nation Inc. but refused to reinstate her antitrust claims against the companies. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:45:31 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308675 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308675 The D.C. Circuit on Friday vacated a lower court’s dismissal of three Brazilian ferrosilicon exporters’ suit against U.S. rivals for allegedly duping trade regulators into imposing duties on the metal as part of a price-fixing conspiracy. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:28:17 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308546 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308546 The European Union's antitrust chief vowed Friday to keep companies from hindering competition by abusing their patents, emphasizing the particular importance of ensuring that competitors have a fair shot at licensing protected inventions incorporated into industry standards. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:16:29 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308597 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308597 The International Paper Co. and Temple-Inland Inc. will have to divest three containerboard mills before they can move forward with a planned $4.3 billion merger, U.S. antitrust regulators said Friday. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:23:37 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308374 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308374 A former Blackstone Medical Inc. employee on Thursday agreed to resolve her False Claims Act suit in Massachusetts federal court accusing the company of paying kickbacks to surgeons, following the U.S. Supreme Court's December decision not to hear the case. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:56:01 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308464 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308464 Adidas AG and the National Basketball Association Inc.'s marketing arm on Thursday settled a licensing company's trademark and unfair competition suit alleging a "We Not Me" advertising campaign for the Boston Celtics infringed its marks. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:46:14 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308477 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308477 The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday dismissed its antitrust lawsuit and proposed settlement with Deutsche Boerse AG and NYSE Euronext over their proposed $9.7 billion merger, after the stock exchange giants formally agreed to kill the deal last week. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:56:25 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308361 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308361 FMT Aggregate LLC on Thursday sued Lafarge North America Inc. in Louisiana federal court, claiming the cement company leveraged information from a joint venture agreement to operate an Illinois quarry into a competing deal with another construction aggregate company. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:33:15 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308220 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308220 Former New York state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. and his son asked a federal court Wednesday to consider dismissing the embezzlement case against them, leveling new claims that the government disregarded a warrant in seizing files from a health care nonprofit's computer. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:28:54 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308268 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308268 A federal grand jury has indicted two Ohio businessmen and an accountant for their alleged roles in a fraudulent loan, bribery and kickback scheme that sparked one of the largest credit union collapses in U.S. history, prosecutors said Wednesday. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:58:23 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308365 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308365 Three California real estate investors agreed to plead guilty on Thursday to charges stemming from their involvement in a conspiracy in which the men cut a deal not to bid against each other at real estate foreclosure auctions. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:33:44 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308333 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308333 Intel Corp. said Thursday that it would pay $6.5 million to settle an antitrust suit brought by New York state accusing it of threatening major computer makers in order to monopolize the market for certain microprocessors. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:22:18 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308180 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308180 A New York federal judge on Thursday ruled that a group of Chinese companies cannot appeal his denial of their bid to exit multidistrict antitrust litigation over vitamin C, despite their claim that the Chinese government compelled them to fix prices. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:26:51 +0000 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308188 http://www.law360.com/competition/articles/308188 The Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a proposed class action against several pharmacy chains — including CVS Caremark Corp., Rite Aid Corp. and Walgreen Co. — over the companies’ alleged participation in a scheme to artificially inflate drug prices.