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U.S. DOJ and New York Attorney General challenge NYC tour bus joint venture

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 18 2012

The U.S. Department of Justice and the New York State Attorney General have filed an antitrust lawsuit to dissolve a joint venture between two New York City tour bus companies that effectively merged their operations and eliminated competition between them

Federal antitrust enforcers taking more regulatory, but more flexible, approach to merger remedies

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 16 2010

With a year and a half of merger challenges now on the scorecard, several trends suggest that the new federal antitrust enforcers have brought to Washington a little change of their own, which is affecting how they "fix" anti-competitive mergers

U.S. DOJ pursues new disgorgement remedy in market manipulation case

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 27 2010

Reaching the end of a three-year investigation, today the Department of Justice Antitrust Division asked a New York federal court to approve the DOJ's settlement of claims that KeySpan violated the antitrust laws by manipulating the NYC wholesale electricity market

The USAir-Delta slot swaps disputes

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 13 2011

None of the combatants in the slot swap war have given up

New leadership announced at U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 9 2012

The two U.S. antitrust agencies have been waiting for leadership positions to be filled, which may provide clearer signs on the direction of antitrust enforcement after three years of the Obama Administration

New FTC pharma patent litigation report finds increase in "reverse payment" settlements based on expanded definition of "payments"

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 6 2013

With the Supreme Court set to address the validity of "reverse payment" settlements of pharmaceutical patent litigation, the FTC released a summary

U.S. DOJ seeks new disgorgement remedy in civil antitrust case

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 5 2010

Until last week, the U.S. Department of Justice had not sought to obtain disgorgement as a remedy in a civil Sherman Act case

DOJFTC to review US Horizontal Merger Guidelines

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 23 2009

Today the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission announced that they would seek public comment and hold joint public workshops to explore possible updates to the Horizontal Merger Guidelines, which outline the antitrust agencies' merger enforcement policies

DOJ AAG Varney provides guidance on vertical price fixingresale price maintenance (RPM)

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 12 2009

Yesterday, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney used a speech to the National Association of Attorneys General to reaffirm the DOJ's commitment to a closer cooperation with the state enforcers

U.S. FTC and Whole Foods settle long-running merger challenge

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 9 2009

Today the Federal Trade Commission and Whole Foods Markets settled the FTC's challenge to Whole Foods' 2007 acquisition of Wild Oats Markets, which the agency alleged would lessen competition in the operation of "premium natural and organic supermarkets."