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Acting Antitrust Chief Pozen Plans to Step Down in April

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Less than six months after her appointment as Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Sharis A. Pozen has...

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Fines Mounting in Department of Justice Auto Parts Cartel Investigation

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business The Department of Justice today announced a total of $548 million in fines resulting from a second round of charges in the government’s ongoing investigation into...

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Bill Baer Named to Serve as AAG in Charge of Justice Department Antitrust...

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business On February 3, the White House announced President Barack Obama’s intention to nominate Bill Baer to serve as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of...

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Justice Department Report Reaffirms Commitment to Competition in Agricultural...

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business The Department of Justice Antitrust Division “remains committed to taking all appropriate investigatory and enforcement action against conduct threatening harm to...

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Convictions in LCD Panel Price Fixing Case Stand After Motions for Acquittal,...

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business The government’s successful prosecution of AU Optronics Corporation, its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary, and two former company executives serves as a cautionary tale....

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Senate Judiciary Committee Considers Antitrust Chief Nomination

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing to consider the nomination of William Baer to serve as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department...

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Half a Loaf Is Not Enough: The DOJ’s Approval of a Cable Cartel Will Harm...

Law Offices of David A. Balto Recently the DOJ announced its approval, with conditions, of the complex set of commercial agreements entered into by a cadre of cable companies (Comcast, Time Warner...

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George Mason Professor Joshua D. Wright to Be Nominated to Serve as FTC...

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business George Mason University (GMU) Law Professor Joshua D. Wright has been picked by the Obama Administration to replace Federal Trade Commission member J. Thomas Rosch—a...

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Google Foes Must Admit Defeat on Antitrust Case

Law Offices of David A. Balto The press is reporting that FairSearch and the other Google opponents have trotted down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division asking them to...

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Thoughts on the DOJ’s Move to Block Further Anheuser-Busch InBev/Grupo Modelo...

My partner Lee Van Voorhis in Washington drafted some thoughts on this transaction, which I thought would be of interest to the Kluwer readership. DOJ Sues to Block Further Anheuser-Busch InBev/Grupo...

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Apple Found to Have Orchestrated Conspiracy to Fix E-Book Prices

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Apple Inc. played a central role in facilitating and executing a conspiracy among publishers to fix retail prices for electronic books, or e-books, the federal...

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A Tale of Two Antitrust Agencies

Law Offices of David A. Balto Charles Dickens’ famous novel A Tale of Two Cities begins with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Dickens’ brilliant prose could have been describing...

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Fines Mounting in Department of Justice Auto Parts Cartel Investigation

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business The Department of Justice today announced a total of $548 million in fines resulting from a second round of charges in the government’s ongoing investigation into...

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FTC/DOJ Workshop on Conditional Pricing Practices – Good as Far as It Goes

Schiff Hardin LLP On June 23, 2014, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division held a workshop on “conditional pricing practices”—loyalty discounts, bundled...

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U.S. Antitrust Chief Sees Need for Convergence on Single-Firm Conduct

Jeffrey MayThe fall conference season is in full swing. Just this week, top officials from the federal antitrust agencies are speaking at Georgetown Law School’s Ninth Annual Global Antitrust...

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Acting Antitrust Chief Pozen Plans to Step Down in April

Jeffrey MayLess than six months after her appointment as Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Sharis A. Pozen has announced her resignation,...

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Fines Mounting in Department of Justice Auto Parts Cartel Investigation

Jeffrey MayThe Department of Justice today announced a total of $548 million in fines resulting from a second round of charges in the government’s ongoing investigation into collusive activity in the...

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Bill Baer Named to Serve as AAG in Charge of Justice Department Antitrust...

Jeffrey MayOn February 3, the White House announced President Barack Obama’s intention to nominate Bill Baer to serve as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice Antitrust...

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Time to Reopen Some Antitrust Division Field Offices?

Robert E. ConnollyThere has been much speculation about what a Trump presidency will mean for antitrust enforcement at the Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission.  Much of the wonder is about...

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Some Comments from Brent Snyder, former Antitrust Division Criminal Deputy,...

Robert E. ConnollyIf you ever wanted to sell a student on pursuing a career in antitrust because of the interesting possibilities, Brent Snyder’s career (which is far from over) would be a good case in...

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