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Ninth Circuit finds that new home buyer plaintiffs fail to satisfy per se tying element that amount of commerce not be "insubstantial"

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 3 2009

Buyers of newly constructed homes in the Boise, Idaho, area filed a federal antitrust class action, alleging that realtors representing owners of undeveloped property tied the sale of the undeveloped lots to realtors’ services and commissions that included the new homes constructed on the lots by contractors, as well at the value of the lot

In a case alleging an illegal tie "zero foreclosure" means "zero case"

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 7 2008

Defendants were realtors in Boise, Idaho

Commissioner dealt a setback in TREB

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 17 2013

On April 16, 2013, the Competition Tribunal released its long-awaited decision in the Commissioner of Competition v. The Toronto Real Estate Board

Real estate transactions under EU merger laws

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • January 25 2007

Few who become involved in real estate deals realize there may be notification requirements under EU merger control laws

Supermarket agreements open way for more competition

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • October 8 2009

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths have voluntarily entered into court enforceable undertakings to stop demanding restrictive covenants in supermarket leases

DOJ files action against South Carolina CMLA

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 27 2008

On May 2 the DOJ filed an antitrust action against Consolidated Multiple Listing Service (CMLS) of Columbia, South Carolina, alleging that certain policies adopted by the service harm competition for real estate brokerage services in the region

Tesco defeat competition test proposals

  • MacRoberts LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 9 2009

Tesco has won a key victory against the Competition Commission and its proposals to make store planning applications subject to a competition test

Land agreements come under the competition law spotlight

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 13 2009

At the beginning of October the UK’s Competition Commission (CC) recommended to Government that introduces as "competition test" in planning decisions for large grocery stores

Xactimate update: court dismisses all claims

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 16 2009

As reported in previous issues of Expect Focus, Louisiana’s Attorney General filed suit against several property insurers, alleging that they conspired and colluded among themselves, and with co-defendants Xactware, Inc., Insurance Services Office, Inc. and McKinsey & Company Inc., to artificially reduce the value of property claims by manipulating a claim database used as an industry reference

FCC precludes exclusive agreements between cable operators and MDU owners

  • Locke Lord LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 15 2007

On October 31, 2007, the FCC announced that it was taking action to address exclusive service contracts between cable operators providing video services and owners of multi-dwelling unit properties (MDUs