Corporate & Securities Law

Cartel Enforcement and the Election
From an excellent short article by Dan McInnis (Akin Gump) on the potential impact of the election on cartel policy in Global Competition Policy: Antitrust policy has played little role in the election...

First on State Antitrust Enforcement
Harry First (New York University - School of Law) has posted Making the Best of a Good Situation: Modernizing State Antitrust Enforcement (Antitrust Bulletin, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In 2001 Congressman F...

DOJ and FTC Disagree on Antitrust
Immediately after the Justice Department released its 215-page report laying a broad framework on antitrust enforcement, three of the four Federal Trade commissioners have come out and criticized the new policy as ?a blueprint for radically weakened enforcement? against anticompetitive...

DOJ Wants You - If You Like Antitrust Appellate Law
The Appellate Section of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division: is seeking highly qualified attorneys to fill two openings in an active office that deals routinely with complex issues on the cutting edge of antitrust law...

The Dual Antitrust Enforcement Question
With all of the recent talk of the “optimal regulatory structure” and proposals about regulatory consolidation and reorganization (here is Glom Blogger David Zaring on the Big Reorg), I wonder if the discussion might carry over into antitrust and the recurring “dual enforcement” question...

DOJ’s Antitrust Division (Criminal Section) Suffers Third Major Loss Within the Last Year
March 12, 2008.  The U.K. House of Lords declined to extradite Ian Norris, the former CEO of Morgan Crucible who the Antitrust Division (Criminal Section) had indicted for price-fixing in connection with electrical carbon cartel...

Child Support Survival Guide
The Child Support Enforcement System

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.

Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Division of Immigration Health Services
allegedly drugged deported immigrants with sedatives.

Mississippi Antitrust
Costs Microsoft $100 Million

MasterCard
settles antitrust lawsuit with Amex for $1.8 billion

Visa, MasterCard
Antitrust with Discover Settled for $2.75 Billion