Corporate & Securities Law

Aviation Alliances & the Coming Global Antitrust Enforcement
Is a new wave of transnational competition enforcement coming? That's what the American Antitrust Institute is agitating for. See Think Tank Urges White House to Hike Diligence in Promoting Market Economies, 97 Antitrust & Trade Reg...

Ag Antitrust and the Packers & Stockyards Act
The theme of the newest issue of the CPI Antitrust Chronicle focuses on agriculture and antitrust. The issue includes a paper by yours truly on the difficulties of effectively using the Packers & Stockyards Act of 1921 as an alternate means for enforcing competition policy in the agriculture sector (see here; also available at SSRN here)...

Are You a Law Student in or from New York
The New York State Bar Association is sponsoring a student writing contest focusing on antitrust.  Eligible papers (which must be solo-authored): may address any antitrust topic including topics relating to civil and criminal antitrust law, intellectual property and antitrust law, competition policy, regulatory policy, consumer protection, international competition law and state antitrust enforcement...

Antitrust/Competition Law Changes In Play Across The Pond
In the European Union, competition law is enforced across the member states by the Directorate of Competition (DG-IV). In the U.S., the antitrust laws are enforced by the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division...

Antitrust and the Dynamics of Competition in High-Tech Industries
On Friday, I will be participating at an event at Technology Policy Institute, where I will be discussing the titular question along with Bob Crandall, Charles Jackson, Christopher Yoo, and Bruce Owen...

Antitrust, Multi-Dimensional Competition, and Innovation: Do We Have an Antitrust-Relevant Theory of Competition Now
My essay on economics, innovation, and antitrust, forthcoming in Manne & Wright’s forthcoming volume on Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent Law Under Certainty (introductory chapter available here), is now available on SSRN...

Child Support Survival Guide
The Child Support Enforcement System

Nielsen Media Challenged
TV ratings company to pay undisclosed settlement in antitrust lawsuit.

Flotek Industries, Inc.
FTK

Flotek Industries, Inc.
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Immigration and Customs Enforcement
alleging government agencies and officials violated immigrant workers' constitutional rights.

PhotoCop Tickets
Minneapolis to pay $2.6 million settlement in traffic enforcement lawsuit.

Paint Plant Explosion
PPG Industries awards employee $900,000 burn injury settlement.