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DOJ Calls For Greater International Antitrust Cooperation

Posted  10/3/12
The expansion of international cooperation in antitrust enforcement in recent years is likely to continue and benefit both businesses and consumers, according to a top U.S. antitrust enforcer. Joseph Wayland, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, surveyed the benefits of international cooperation among antitrust authorities in a at the...

British Competition Authorities Revise Penalty Guidelines

Posted  09/27/12
The Office of Fair Trading (the “OFT”) – the United Kingdom’s consumer and competition authority – has announced new guidelines for setting penalties for violations of British competition laws. The most drastic change contained in increases the maximum starting point for calculating a penalty from 10 to 30 percent of a company’s relevant turnover. The OFT indicated that it is...

Aftermarket Autoparts Manufacturers Lose Bid To Stop Antitrust Class Action

Posted  09/21/12
Taiwanese manufacturers of aftermarket auto parts will have to continue litigating an antitrust class action as a result of the denial of their motion to dismiss the second amended complaint in Judge Lynn Adelman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin of defendants Taiwan Kai Yih Industrial Co.,...

Court Finds Musical Instrument Antitrust Claims Out Of Tune Under Twombly

Posted  09/18/12
Judge Larry Burns of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California has granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ antitrust claim under Section One of the Sherman Act in In re: National Association of Music Merchants, Musical Instruments and Equipment Antitrust Litigation. The plaintiffs alleged that defendants conspired to fix the prices of acoustic, electric and bass guitars, and...

Court Rejects Comcast Bid To Shuttle High-Speed Antitrust Claims Into Arbitration

Posted  09/14/12
Judge Stefan Underhill of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut Comcast Corp.’s bid to force antitrust claims in a putative class action into arbitration, despite the plaintiff’s signing of an arbitration clause in a subscriber agreement. In in Fromer v. Comcast Corp., the court found the class action waiver clause in Comcast’s...

U.S. Soccer Federation Scores Summary Judgment On Antitrust Claims

Posted  09/12/12
Judge Harry Leinenweber of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has granted the United States Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer that they conspired to drive promotion company ChampionsWorld out of business. The U.S. Soccer Federation represents American soccer on the international scale through the U.S. Olympic Committee and the Fédération...

Mobile Phone Companies Ask Court To Hang Up On Texters

Posted  09/7/12
Defendants in In re A2P SMS Antitrust Litigation are asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to dismiss antitrust claims alleging that mobile phone companies conspired with wireless providers to control the price of application-to-person messaging. Club Texting, Inc., iSpeedbuy LLC and Textpower, Inc. filed an antitrust class action against AT&T Mobility LLC, Verizon Wireless LLC,...

Internet Adult Entertainment Antitrust Suit Passes Scrutiny

Posted  09/4/12
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and ICM Registry, the sole operator of the .XXX domain name registry, are going to have to continue litigating antitrust claims brought by adult filmmaker Digital Playground Inc. and Manwin Licensing International SARL. Judge Phillip S. Gutierrez of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California is permitting plaintiffs in Manwin...

Simon Says Mall Monopolization Claims Should Be Tossed

Posted  08/28/12
Shopping mall giant Simon Property Group, Inc. on Friday asked a federal court in Indiana to dismiss antitrust claims brought by competitor Gumwood HP Shopping Partners, claiming that a magistrate judge misapplied federal antitrust law in recommending that Simon’s motion to dismiss be denied. Simon claims that Magistrate Judge Christopher A. Nuechterlein of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...

Pool Corp. Asks Court To Throw Antitrust Claims Into The Deep End

Posted  08/21/12
Pool Corp., the largest distributor of swimming pool supplies in the U.S., has filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to dismiss class action antitrust claims, arguing that the complaint fails to state a claim. Plaintiffs allege that Pool Corp. entered into illegal agreements with three different manufacturers: Pentair Water Pool and Spa, Hayward Industries, and Zodiac Pool...
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