91porn

Constantine Pens A Timely And 鈥淧riceless鈥� Tale Of Battling The Financial Giants

Constantine Cannon鈥檚 founding partner, Lloyd Constantine, has written a book that answers the timely question of how do you rescue an industry from the greed and anticompetitive conduct of financial giants? 聽Constantine鈥檚 answer was to lead an historic legal battle against Visa and Mastercard that led to those financial giants paying billions of dollars to America鈥檚 merchants. Constantine鈥檚 book,...

European Commission Publicizes Intel Emails In New Tack

Don鈥檛 put anything in an email that you wouldn鈥檛 want on the front page of the newspaper.听 Or in a decision of the European Commission slapping a 1.06 billion Euros fine (approximately $1.5 billion) on your company.

On September 21, 2009, the Commission released a public version of its May 13 decision in which it imposed the record fine on Intel, the world鈥檚 largest semiconductor chip manufacturer, for...

Review Of 1992 Merger Guidelines Is A Once-In-A-Generation Opportunity

Antitrust practitioners that pass on the upcoming opportunity to comment on revising the will be missing an opportunity that comes once in a generation. For 17 years now, the Horizontal Merger Guidelines jointly developed by the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have been one of a few doctrinal pillars of the faith among antitrust practitioners, most notably with respect...

Will The Microsoft-Yahoo Partnership Result In U.S. v. Microsoft Redux?

Antitrust enforcers may be seeing a lot of their old friends at Microsoft thanks to the Internet search deal the computer giant has reached with Yahoo!聽 As Constantine Cannon鈥檚 Matt Cantor discusses in his recent article, "", the deal raises substantial antitrust issues that may doom it. It appears that Microsoft and Yahoo!'s proposed "partnership," which...

For Antitrust Enforcers, Causation Can Be The Matrix

鈥淵ou see there is only one constant.听 One universal.听 It is the only real truth.听 Causality.听 Action, reaction.听 Cause and effect.鈥� -- in The Matrix Reloaded Characters in science fiction films such as The Matrix series and The Time Traveler鈥檚 Wife have struggled with life-or-death issues of causation.听 As highlighted by recent decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District...

Justice Sotomayor's Pivotal Antitrust Decision

Though Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor鈥檚 nomination hearings made lots of news, the media didn鈥檛 spend much time focusing on her antitrust decisions.听 But the nation鈥檚 newest justice is no stranger to the Sherman Act. 91porn鈥� as Lead Counsel in its groundbreaking debit card litigation 鈥� has first-hand experience with Justice Sotomayor's antitrust jurisprudence.听 She authored a pivotal...

Will Congress Nix Resale Price Maintenance?

The chairmen of the House and Senate antitrust subcommittees are just saying no to the Supreme Court鈥檚 decision in .听 Leegin overturned the Supreme Court鈥檚 1911 Dr. Miles decision holding that resale price maintenance was per se illegal.听 Both bills seek to reinstitute the per se rule by statute. On January 6, 2009, Chairman Herb Kohl...

Leading Congressional Dems Open Antitrust Front In Healthcare War

The Chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees have joined forces to open a new 鈥� antitrust 鈥� front in the war for healthcare reform.听 The two leading Democrats are seeking to boost healthcare reform with a partial repeal of an antitrust exemption that鈥檚 about as old as Democrats鈥� efforts to enact universal healthcare. On September 17, 2009, Chairman John Conyers (D.-Mich.) of the House...

Antitrust & Election Systems Collide: The Contested ES&S/Diebold Merger

In the 2000 Presidential election, Americans became painfully aware of the dirty secret of their democracy -- that the integrity of our elections depends on a messy patchwork of voting machines that use disparate and often archaic systems.听 Since then, efforts have been made to improve and standardize the system but the weaknesses of the system remain and are particularly apparent in contested close elections.听 Now...

A Warning For Corporate Parents In The EU鈥檚 Akzo Nobel Case

Being a parent means great responsibilities 鈥� especially if you鈥檙e a corporate parent with subsidiaries active in the European Union.听 As a result of the , such corporate parents now face greater antitrust liability for the conduct of their 100%-owned subsidiaries. On September 10, 2009, the European Court of Justice of a 2007 judgment of...