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USA - October 12 2012
The exchange of wage-related information between two competitors may not be a per se violation of antitrust laws, according to a Federal court in Michigan.
USA - October 12 2012
Company shareholders do not suffer "antitrust injuries" because of an alleged violation of Section 8 of the Clayton Act, prohibiting officers and directors from serving on the boards of competing corporations, according to a new Seventh Circuit decision in Robert F. Booth Trust v. Crowley.
USA - October 12 2012
The long arm of American antitrust law can reach across oceans and penalize actions by foreign corporations, so long as those actions have a "reasonably proximate causal nexus" to effects in the United States.
USA - October 12 2012
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) scored a victory in the Eleventh Circuit this summer when the court upheld a divestiture order based on violations of the Clayton and FTC Acts.
USA - October 1 2012
The Department of Justice's ("DOJ") imposition of an $850,000 penalty against Biglari Holdings, Inc. for violating the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the "HSR Act") illustrates both the agency's view of the limited scope of the passive investor exemption as well as their continued zeal for taking a hard line on HSR violations, even where it does not challenge the underlying bona fides of a transaction.
