Competition Archive » January, 2012

Competition - January, 2012

241 articles

• Fishermen Hook Class Cert. In Seafood Antitrust Suit
• 2011's Big FCPA Finish: Aon And Magyar Telekom
• Visa, MasterCard Knock Conspiracy Claims In ATM Fee Row
• Chile Fines 2 Pharmacy Chains $38M For Price Fixing
• Gabon Loss Highlights DOJ's Vulnerability In FCPA Cases
• Recycling Co. Schemed To Corner Market, Rival Says
• 2nd Mistrial Declared In Gabon FCPA Case
• Hughes Hubbard Adds 10 SNR Denton Attys In Paris
• LCD Suits Against Samsung, Sanyo Tossed In MDL
• Class Cert. Denied In Suit Over Whole Foods, Wild Oats Tie-Up
• Oracle's Fraud Claim Over HP Exec Poaching Settlement Nixed
• Samsung's Smartphone IP Suits Prompt EU Antitrust Probe
• How To Lead A Practice Group
• AT&T, Verizon Urge Judge To Hang Up MMS Antitrust Suit
• Recycling Co. Restarts Antitrust Suit Against Solo, Others
• Multiven Takes Another Try At Cisco Antitrust Claims
• Allergan, Merz Row Over Botox Secrets Headed To Trial
• Ex-Pa. County Commissioners Face Prison For Corruption
• Judge Won't Revive Challenge To Master Tobacco Deal
• Oracle, US Can't Strike Down Relators' Sun Kickback Claims
• Blue Cross Blasts Aetna's Antitrust Allegations
• Judge Won't Halt Fujifilm, Rite Aid Servicing Pact
• Price-Fixing Fine, Sales Drop Sink Canadian Foam Maker
• Japanese Auto Suppliers To Pay $548M In Price-Fixing Case
• Coventry Rips Sanctions Bid In OSF Hospital Merger Fight
• Kaye Scholer Lures FCPA Whiz From Morgan Lewis
• 2 Acquitted In Gabon FCPA Case, 3 Await Fate
• Comparing Antitrust Guidelines In The US And Korea
• FTC Sues Omnicare To Block $441M PharMerica Merger
• DuPont's $920M Trade Secrets Win In Kevlar Suit Upheld
• Trustee Seeks High Court Review Of Garment Antitrust Suit
• Accused Auto Light Price Fixer Battles For Taiwan Trip
• Investor Admits To Real Estate Bid-Rigging Scheme
• Airline Services Co. Head Gets 2 Years For Kickback Plot
• Canada Fines 7 More In Quebec Gas Cartel Probe
• EC Proceeds With Antitrust Probe Of French Drug Co.
• EU Examines Air France-KLM, Delta, Alitalia Alliance
• It's Not Always Good To Share
• Google, Apple Anti-Poaching Pact Suit Proceeds
• Graco Can't Shake FTC Suit Over $650M ITW Deal
• Indirect Purchaser Classes Stand In LCD Price-Fixing Case
• Nestle Fires Back At Mead Johnson Over Bottle Design IP
• Ex-CDC Official Gets 4 Years For Contract Bribes
• Hospital Groups Clash Over Doc Request In Competition Battle
• Vitamin C Buyers Win Class Cert. In Antitrust MDL
• Spain Raids Polyurethane Foam Makers In Cartel Probe
• AT&T Posts $6.7B Loss Thanks To T-Mobile Breakup Fee
• $180M Deal Needs Deeper Scrutiny Under CAFA: Sirius Users
• Steptoe Nabs 2 Antitrust Experts For DC Office
• China's Growing Influence Over Global Transactions
• Forest Labs Bribed Study Authors To Boost Celexa: Suit
• Sanyo Loses MetroPCS Fight In LCD Price-Fixing MDL
• Ex-NY Sen. Espada, Son Deny False Statement Charges
• FTC Gives Go-Ahead To $1.5B Oracle, RightNow Merger
• Ex-Army Corps Director Pleads Guilty In $1B Bribery Case
• Deutsche Post To Repay Up To €1B In German State Aid
• Microsoft Dances Out Of Kinect Trademark Suit
• Ex-HealthSouth CEO Gets 1 Year Dropped From Prison Time
• UK Probes Simplyhealth's $180M Dental Insurance Co. Buy
• Because Jurisprudence Is (Not) Forever
• Don't Expect Much From DOJ's New FCPA Guidance
• DuPont Says Kolon Destroyed Docs In Kevlar Antitrust Suit
• Cancer Agency Disliked Nonprofit, Barred Contract Bid: Suit
• Bradley Arant Nabs Winston & Strawn Antitrust Atty
• Judge Cuts Conspiracy Claims Against Cigna, Others
• Honda, Suzuki Fined €4M In Spanish Antitrust Probe
• South Africa Again Blocks Merger Of 2 Chemical Cos.
• Ky. Can't Force AT&T To Supply Competitors: 6th Circ.
• IPhone Antitrust Class Says Contract Bars Arbitration
• Analyzing Conspiracy Claims Under Capper-Volstead
• DOJ Antitrust Head Pozen To Depart In April
• Ex-Aviation Co. Exec Says BCI Bribes Backed Solid Deals
• Chunghwa Bribed Worker To Plead Guilty In LCD Case: AUO
• Canada Widens Probe Of $2.1B United Rentals Deal
• FTC To Drop Antitrust Suit Over Lundbeck Heart Defect Drug
• Dick's Exec Gets 3 Years For Kickbacks
• $15M Deal In Polyurethane Foam Antitrust MDL Gets Initial Nod
• Consumer Group Tells EU Watchdog To Block Google Buy
• ICANN Claims Antitrust Immunity In '.XXX' Domain Fight
• Deutsche Boerse Offers New NYSE Merger Concessions
• Italy Asks Oil Cos. For Sicily Gas Price Info
• Jobs Bio, Publisher Emails Show E-Book Price Plot: Suit
• Goodbye, Convergence
• 7th Circ. Read Trade Law Too Narrowly In Potash Case: US
• Ex-Army Officers Sentenced For Afghanistan Bribe Plot
• Braintree, Buyers Settle Generic MiraLax Suit For $17M
• Emails From Apple, Others Show Poaching Pacts: Workers
• Giorgio Settles Mushroom Price-Fixing MDL
• Toy Co. Drops Suit Accusing Lego Of Blocking Imports
• Citi Defrauded Homeowners On Reinsurance: Class Action
• The Difficulties Of Challenging An FTC Subpoena
• Permitting Private FCPA Suits: Inside HR 3531
• USDA Meat Antitrust Watchdog Goes Out To Pasture
• Nurses Can Pursue Collective, Class Wage Actions: Judge
• Poultry Co. Fights $26M Price Manipulation Fine
• 7th Circ. Reverses Restitution Order In ABN Bribery Case
• Japanese Auto Cable Cos. Hit With $170M In Cartel Fines
• Chinese Cos. Fight Antitrust Laws' Reach In High Court
• Anheuser Hit With Trademark Suit Over 'Ultimate Fan' Use
• Pension Plan's ING Kickback Suit Not Too Late: Judge
• EU Puts Off Decision On $12.5B Google, Motorola Deal
• Judge Keeps LCD Price-Fixing Suits Alive
• Perkins Coie Nabs 3 From Microsoft, US Atty, Seed IP
• Emerging Trends In Indirect-Purchaser Antitrust Cases
• IP Counsel's 'Cheat Sheet' To FCPA And Travel Act
• DC Circ. Grounds Antitrust Action Against United
• DOJ Scrutinizes Martin Marietta's $5B Bid For Vulcan
• ABA Accreditation Decision Stands Despite Antitrust Claims
• Comcast Seeks High Court Reversal Of Antitrust Class Cert.
• Insurers Can't Dodge Coverage For NCAA Antitrust Actions
• OFT Sends Cement Industry Probe To UK Antitrust Body
• Feds Push For 1st Circ. To Reopen FCA Suit Against Pfizer
• McDermott Brings DOJ Trial Lawyer Back To DC Office
• Real Estate Cos.' $9M Deal OK'd In Antitrust Suit
• Korean Air Can't Clip Price-Fixing Suit's Wings
• Final Kruger-Linked Consultant Admits To Bribery
• Lego Uses Phony IP To Block Competing Imports: Suit
• EU Pushes Back Decision On Suedzucker, ED&F Man Deal
• EU Antitrust Watchdog Starts Up French Water Utility Probe
• Blowing Up The Rockets And Feathers 'Conspiracy'
• 'Spider-Man' Producers Strike Back At Ex-Director Taymor
• ConEd Supplier Faces 5 Years For Bribery
• EU Panel Backs NYSE, Deutsche Boerse Merger Ban
• Fujifilm Rival Says Rite Aid Deal Will Bolster Monopoly
• Antitrust Group Of The Year: White & Case
• Schiff Hardin Scores 4 Ex-Miller Canfield Antitrust Pros
• High Court Won't Hear Okla. City's Electricity Tying Case
• Marubeni Ends Nigerian Bribery Scheme Charges For $55M
• Ex-ABB Exec Dodges FCPA Charges
• Ex-Thompson Hine Atty Gets 1 Year For Tax Fraud
• UK Fraud Office Nets Plea From Ex-Innospec Director
• Converging On Federal Reviews Of Electricity Mergers
• Ex-Ohio County Official Can't Trim Corruption Case
• Microsoft Presses Judge To Toss Novell Antitrust Row
• FTC To Revise Investigation, Atty Misconduct Rules
• Antitrust Group Of The Year: Skadden
• Fed. Circ. To Mull Limits To Patent Fraud Antitrust Claims
• Price Uniformity Not Required For Cert.: 7th Circ.
• Dick's Atty Gets 5 Years For Developer Kickbacks
• American Airlines Postpones Antitrust Trial Against Sabre
• Mabey & Johnson Owner Fined Over Oil-For-Food Kickbacks
• NCsoft Accuses Rival Gaming Co. Of Trade Secret Theft
• Fighting The Scourge Of Corruption
• S. Korea Fines Samsung, LG $39M For Fixing Prices
• The Role Of Market Definition In Merger Cases
• Competition Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
• Ex-SK Foods CEO Loses Bid To Hush Wiretap Evidence
• Canada Unveils Updated Merger Review Guidelines
• Apple, AT&T Blast IPhone Users' Bid To Duck Arbitration
• EU High Court Urged To Uphold Alliance Tobacco Cartel Fine
• Case Study: US V. Bourke
• Con Ed Sues Ex-Manager For $7M Over Kickback Scheme
• Walgreen, Par Schemed To Overcharge For Generics: Suit
• Microsoft Drops Patent Claims In ITC Fight Over Nook
• Feds Hit Back At Gabon FCPA Execs In Last Word Of Trial
• New Google Search Not Anti-Competitive, Attys Say
• Texas Court Eases Checks On Structured Settlement Cos.
• Japanese Auto Exec Gets 15 Months For Price-Fixing Plot
• Cozen Nabs Seasoned Litigator From Jones Day
• Yates Accuses Pipe Fittings Cos. Of Price-Fixing Scheme
• Competition Group Of The Year: O'Melveny & Myers
• Judge Trims Monopoly Claim From Cablevision Tying Suit
• CHS Scrubs Hospital Buyout Amid FTC Review
• 6th Circ. Bats Down Ohio Official's Double Jeopardy Claim
• AmeriGas Told To Cut Propane Unit From $3B ETP Buy
• Minding HSR When Shareholders Increase Stakes
• US Says Ex-Thompson Hine Atty Deserves 16 Months
• Judge Rejects Live Nation's Merger Docs In Antitrust Suit
• Consumers Renew $29B Express Scripts, Medco Deal Fight
• Competition Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
• EU Set To Rule On $10B Deutsche Boerse, NYSE Tie-Up
• Gabon FCPA Execs Decry FBI Tactics, Informant
• Chinese Co.'s US Unit Cut From Vitamin C Antitrust MDL
• Proskauer Lures Weil Gotshal Atty To NY Antitrust Team
• Calif. County's Sherman Act Claim Nixed In Plasma MDL
• Freshfields Competition Pro Jumps To Burges Salmon
• Disclosure Question Ripples Both Sides Of The Pond
• French Antitrust Bureau To Probe Oracle Over HP Gripes
• Romanian Antitrust Watchdog Fines Oil Cos. $258M
• Judge Tosses Coin Graders' EBay Antitrust Suit
• FTC Asks Court To Unseal Docs In Graco Merger Suit
• $31M Visa, MasterCard Deal To End Antitrust Suits Nixed
• States Object To Indirect Purchaser Deals In LCD MDL
• DOJ Landed $1B In Antitrust Penalties In 2011: Report
• Feds Blast Gabon FCPA Execs In Closing Argument
• Search Co. InfoSpace Expands With $287.5M TaxACT Buy
• 2 CDR Execs Cop To Municipal Bond Bid-Rigging Charges
• NCAA Policies Hurt Market Competition, 7th Circ. Hears
• EBay Can't Duck Sellers' PayPal Antitrust Class Action
• Tackling The Financial Crisis With Antitrust Claims
• Cox Faces Renewed Class Cert. Bid In Set-Top Box MDL
• Sirius Customers Ask 2nd Circ. To Kill $180M 'Coupon' Deal
• FCPA, Travel Act and UK Bribery Act — Made Simple
• Qualcomm, Ericsson, Others Dodge Collusion Suit
• NY Times, HuffPost Put End To Parenting Blog Name Fight
• Live Nation Paid Kickbacks To Concert Venue: Suit
• Ex-Army Major Gets 12 Years For Iraq Bribery Scheme
• Canada Fines Domfoam $12M Over Foam Price-Fixing
• BP Gets Franchisees' Claims Pared In $200M Contract Suit
• Ex-Ohio Official Loses Bid To Delay Fraud Trial
• HSBC's Water Utility Sale Under UK Antitrust Review
• Paul Hastings Snatches Up O'Melveny Antitrust Pro
• Feds' Discovery Error Stalls Deal In USAID Fraud Case
• Ex-ABB Exec Can't Escape FCPA Charges
• FTC Judge Orders ProMedica To Sell Off St. Luke's
• Unlike Fine Wine: The JV Guidelines A Decade Later
• EU Continues To Weigh Antitrust Charges For Google
• Actavis Pays $118M To Settle Drug Pricing Claims
• Lyondell Reaches Deal Over $110M Canadian Class Claim
• Insurers Can't Join Coverage Suit Over Athlete Image Use
• Ex-Cephalon GC Joins Morgan Lewis Litigation Group
• Pfizer Unit's Skelaxin Pay-For-Delay Deal Illegal: Suit
• Microsoft, Datel Make Peace In Xbox IP, Antitrust Row
• Gabon FCPA Exec Says He Didn't Understand Arms Sales Biz
• Ex-La. Mayor Can't Shake Bribery Scheme Charges
• Ex-Lyondell Manager Gets 7 Years For Kickbacks Scheme
• FTC Accuses Pipe Fittings Cos. Of Price-Fixing Scheme
• Lobbyist Admits To Bribing Once-Influential NY Pol Kruger
• 3rd Circ. Scraps Fraud Convictions Of Philly Official, Others
• Louboutin Can't Bar YSL From Selling Red Soles: Law Profs
• FCPA Drumbeat To Continue After Record 2011
• Kramer Levin Hires Former French Minister
• Drilling Out The Competition: Not If The FTC Knows
• Learning From The Lindsey FCPA Case
• Spain Probes Vodafone, Others On Antitrust Worries
• Panasonic Gets Samsung Antitrust Suit Tossed, Again
• Magyar Telekom To Shell Out $36M Over FCPA Violations
• Israeli Airline To Take Off From Price-Fixing MDL For $16M
• Don't Overrule Accreditation Denial: ABA To Judge
• PNC, Insurers Accused Of Captive Reinsurance Scheme
• Former Fluor Employee Settles Kickback Claims
• Ex-Parkway Hospital CEO Cops To Bribing NY Lawmaker
• Jones Day Adds Ex-Health Care Fraud Chief
• US Seeks Prison Time For Ex-MediSys CEO In Bribery Case
• Huntsman Settles 3 Suits In Foam Price-Fixing MDL
• Cement Buyers Denied Class Cert. In Price-Fixing Suits
• Sharp, Samsung, Others To Pay $538M To Settle LCD Case
• CDR, Founder Cop To Municipal Bond Bid-Rigging Scheme
• Facing FCPA Charges In Foreign Countries
• Competition Cases To Watch In 2012
• Antitrust Agencies Ready For Tough Fights In 2012