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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

Pharmaceutical, pulp mill mergers cleared subject to conditions

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • January 22 2007

The Commission has approved the acquisition of Pfizer's consumer healthcare business by J&J, subject to conditions

Commission raids german electricity companies

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • January 22 2007

On December 12, 2006, the European Commission (Commission) announced that it had carried out surprise inspections (so-called “dawn raids”) at the premises of several electricity companies in Germany

Commission launches case against Microsoft

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • February 19 2008

The European Commission launched two formal antitrust investigations against Microsoft Corporation in relation to suspected abuses of dominance by refusing to provide interoperability information to competitors and tying Internet Explorer (Microsoft’s web browser application) to the Windows operating system

Regulators raid shipping standard companies

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • February 19 2008

Regulators from the European Commission, in conjunction with officials from the EFTA Surveillance Authority (representing Norway, Lichtenstein and Iceland) and national competition authorities, carried out surprise inspections at the premises of several providers of classification services for merchant ships

NCAA settles antitrust action regarding athletic scholarships

  • Squire Sanders
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  • USA
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  • February 19 2008

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has agreed to settle claims that it violated antitrust laws when it adopted a cap on the amount of financial aid its member institutions could award to student athletes

Commission launches consultation on draft guidelines for merger remedies

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • May 23 2007

The Commission has launched a public consultation on its draft Remedies Notice that would clarify its policy regarding remedies to anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions

Regulators drop DRAM investigation

  • Squire Sanders
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  • South Korea
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  • May 23 2007

Citing insufficient evidence, officials at the Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) have announced that the agency has closed its investigation into the price-fixing conspiracy among the world’s largest producers of DRAM

Dutch beer cartel fined over 273 million

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • May 23 2007

The Commission has fined Dutch brewers Heineken, Grolsch and Bavaria more than 273 million for conspiring to fix prices within the Dutch beer market between 1996 and 1999

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