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  • September 21, 2007

    AWP Counsel Asks Court To Kick Haviland Law Firm

    Class counsel in the multidistrict litigation over price-fixing of average wholesale drugs on Thursday attacked the Haviland Law Firm, contending that the court should find it unfit to serve as co-lead counsel.

  • September 21, 2007

    Jacobi Pleads Guilty To Bid-Rigging DOD Contracts

    Jacobi Industries Inc. on Thursday became the latest company to plead guilty to conspiring to rig bids on U.S. Department of Defense contracts for the Middle East, a problem that has caused the administration to review over $6 billion worth of military contracts made over the last few years.

  • September 24, 2007

    Alza Makes Another Push For Data In Ditropan Case

    Alza Corp. continues to put pressure on American Sales Co. to produce information that reinforces the plaintiff’s claims that the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary improperly controlled the market for Ditropan XL by preventing the sale of copycat versions of the incontinence drug.

  • September 21, 2007

    Spain Violated Law In Enel Takeover: EU

    The Spanish government's decision to impose conditions on the proposed merger of energy companies Enel SA, Acconia SA and Endesa SA violated European Commission competition laws, regulators have concluded.

  • September 20, 2007

    Plaintiff Wants Out Of Insurer Kickbacks MDL Suit

    One of the plaintiffs in the multidistrict antitrust litigation against numerous insurers and brokers has signaled that it wants its particular cases remanded back to federal court in Mississippi.

  • September 20, 2007

    OFT Smells Something Rotten With Dairy Prices

    After months of investigating the grocery market, Britain's top antitrust watchdog has accused the country's biggest supermarkets and their suppliers of conspiring to keep dairy product prices artificially high.

  • September 20, 2007

    Kroes Rebukes U.S. Criticism Of Microsoft Ruling

    European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes on Wednesday denounced U.S. Department of Justice comments that criticized a European high court for upholding a €497 million antitrust fine for Microsoft Corp.

  • September 20, 2007

    U.S. To Cut Farm Subsidies, Asks Others To Follow

    The United States has conceded to lower ceilings on farm subsidies and asked other countries to follow its lead as part of current round of World Trade Organization talks on opening global trade.

  • September 21, 2007

    Shareholder Sues BAE Over Alleged Saudi Bribes

    The board of directors of defense contractor BAE Systems has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly paying more than $2 billion in bribes to a Saudi prince as part of a 1985 contract to provide Saudi Arabia with military equipment.

  • September 21, 2007

    Court Upholds EC Ruling On Wine Subsidies

    Two French wine producers received illegal state aid from the government in an effort to keep the struggling businesses afloat, according to a ruling by the European Court of First Instance.

  • September 21, 2007

    AG Fights To Nix Reconsideration Bid In DRAM Suit

    New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has asked a federal court to deny a bid by defendants to reconsider a portion of an earlier ruling that nixes the companies’ motion to dismiss the government's claim in the ongoing antitrust multidistrict litigation against dynamic random access memory manufacturers.

  • September 20, 2007

    Senate Committee Passes Railroad Antitrust Act

    The Senate Judiciary Committee has passed legislation that, if it becomes law, will purportedly increase competition and fairness by repealing the railroad antitrust exemptions.

  • September 20, 2007

    EU Proposes Unbundling Energy Cos.

    Despite the vocal protests of Europe's largest energy providers, the European Commission has adopted legislation that will force energy companies to separate production and supply from transmission networks.

  • September 19, 2007

    ERISA Dispute Heats Up Insurer Kickbacks Suit

    Plaintiffs in the massive consolidated antitrust litigation against a group of insurers and brokers have renewed their battle to keep ERISA claims in the litigation, arguing that ERISA's strict requirements for fiduciaries are intended to protect workers and cannot be “so easily avoided.”

  • September 20, 2007

    California Gas Suit Goes Forward Against EnCana

    EnCana Corp. and its U.S.-based energy trading unit WD Energy Services Inc. continue to face a $60 million antitrust suit filed by a California winery that claims the two companies colluded with others to hike up the prices for natural gas after an unsuccessful appeal of the case.

  • September 19, 2007

    More Details Emerge In SRAM Complaints

    A federal judge has unsealed a pair of consolidated amended complaints that detail numerous instances in which makers of static random access memory chips allegedly shared information as part of their price-fixing conspiracy.

  • September 24, 2007

    Q&A With Alston & Bird's H. Stephen Harris Jr.

    "Antitrust is anything but cookie-cutter work. If you are creative and want to use your creativity to the benefit of clients, antitrust offers that opportunity," says H. Stephen Harris Jr. of Alston & Bird.

  • September 26, 2007

    Q&A With Holland & Knight's Jerome Hoffman

    Jerome Hoffman of Holland & Knight talks to Law360 about being tenacious without being a jerk.

  • September 19, 2007

    Coral Energy Joins Reliant In Fight Against Gas Suit

    The day after Reliant Energy Inc. asked for an antitrust case against it to be thrown out, co-defendant Coral Energy Resources LP joined the fight.

  • September 19, 2007

    Judge Tosses Snapple Price Discrimination Suit

    A federal judge has dismissed antitrust and breach-of-contract claims against Snapple Beverage Group Inc. and affiliates in a once-large putative class action accusing Snapple and several transshippers of price discrimination among New York-area distributors.