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ECJ rules that a development agreement between two contracting authorities is a works contract that must be tendered

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, France
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  • January 31 2007

The ECJ handed down judgment in Case C-22005, Auroux, on 18 January 2007 following a referral from the Tribunal administratif de Lyon (Tribunal

Has the US Supreme Court made it harder to sue in federal courts?

  • Squire Sanders
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  • USA
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  • May 30 2007

On May 21, 2007, the United States Supreme Court, in a 7-2 opinion written by Justice Souter, decided Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, determining what a plaintiff must plead to state a claim under 1 of the Sherman Act

Joint bidding by private equity funds found permissible under antitrust laws

  • Squire Sanders
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 2 2008

In late February 2008 in litigation involving the acquisition of a public company that had put itself up for sale, a federal district court held that that no antitrust claim was stated where, out of all potential buyers solicited by the company, two private equity buyers who were the only bidders to make an actual offer to buy the company entered into a joint bid agreement to purchase the target

British businessman loses fight against US cartel extradition

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 26 2009

The High Court of England and Wales has ruled that British businessman Ian Norris can be extradited to the United States to face trial for obstruction of justice

Court of Appeal finds in favour of BASF on vitamins cartel time-bar issue

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 26 2009

The Court of Appeal has ruled that a damages claim against BASF arising from its part in a vitamin cartel was time-barred, overruling an earlier decision of the Competition Appeals Tribunal

States accuse Abbott of delaying entry of generic cholesterol medication

  • Squire Sanders
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  • USA
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  • April 15 2008

On March 18 attorneys general from 18 states and the District of Columbia filed a joint lawsuit against pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories and Fournier Industrie Et Sante of France (and one of its subsidiaries) (collectively, Fournier), alleging that the companies conspired to monopolize the market for the popular cholesterol drug TriCor

"Italian torpedo” claims get a boost in the Italian courts

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Italy
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  • May 19 2009

The Court of Milan has rejected Eni’s request for a ‘negative ascertainment', which was aimed to have the court declare there was no cartel (which had been found following a Commission investigation in 2006 and involved a fine of 519 million for participants in a price-fixing ring for synthetic rubber) and that, accordingly, no damages were suffered by the tyre manufacturers

CAT publishes summary of BAA's appeal against Competition Commission's final market investigation report

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 3 2009

On 22 May 2009, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) published a summary of the application, under section 179 of the Enterprise Act 2002, by BAA to challenge the legality of certain findings of the Competition Commission in its final report on the BAA airports market investigation

DRAM defendant prosecution ends in mistrial

  • Squire Sanders
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 20 2008

The judge presiding over the litigation concerning price fixing of dynamic random access memory chips (DRAM) declared a mistrial in the government’s case against Hynix Semiconductor Inc. sales executive Gary Swanson

Supreme Court reverses per se ban on minimum resale price maintenance

  • Squire Sanders
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 30 2007

The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, has overturned its longstanding holding that vertical minimum resale price maintenance agreements are per se illegal