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Wellinghoff steps down

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 3 2013

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Jon Wellinghoff submitted his letter of resignation to President Obama May 29. He will remain in office

Preemption argument runs out of steam as Ninth Circuit revives natural gas case

  • Constantine Cannon LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2013

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has revived plaintiffs' state antitrust claims in In re: Western States Wholesale Natural Gas

Natural gas companies settle antitrust suit stemming from joint bidding

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2013

On Monday, April 22, 2013, after rejecting the initial settlement agreement, Judge Richard Matsch (D. Colo.) approved a revised settlement of a suit

Potash miners dig up nearly $100 million to settle antitrust claims

  • Constantine Cannon LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 4 2013

Three of the world's largest potash miners have agreed to settle two multidistrict class action antitrust cases that accuse them of collectively

Department of Justice highlights the downside of transparency

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 4 2013

On February 1, 2013, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed comments in response to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) Notice of

Competition advocacy group files comments in FERC proceeding involving transmission merger

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 29 2013

On January 22, 2013, the American Antitrust Institute (AAI), an independent non-profit organization with a mission to advance the role of competition

FTC report shows that oil sector and pharmaceutical sector mergers are under the antitrust spotlight

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 22 2013

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") issued a data report on January 4 regarding its horizontal merger investigation and enforcement action

FERC’s proposed penalties for market manipulation: do they violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition on excessive fines?

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 31 2012

In the past year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") issued over five orders directing various companies and individuals to show cause why

FTC defers to state resolution of competitive concerns arising out of acquisition of natural gas assets

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 15 2012

On November 7, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission announced it had closed its investigation of Hilcorp Alaska LLC’s proposed $375M acquisition of Marathon Oil Company’s Cook Inlet, Alaska natural gas production, storage, and pipeline assets, despite identifying several competitive concerns with the transaction

Solyndra pursues the Chinese

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 15 2012

Solyndra, a now-defunct American manufacturer of photovoltaic solar panels, filed an antitrust suit against three Chinese companies Suntech, Trina and Yingli in October alleging the companies conspired to drive Solyndra, and about a dozen other solar panel manufacturers, out of business and thus monopolize the American market