Corporate & Securities Law

Predatory pricing and other Trade Practices Act small business amendments
As foreshadowed earlier this year, the Rudd Government has announced a package of measures to further amend the Trade Practices Act 1974 including the predatory pricing amendments passed late last year The Government?s amendments will: ensure that victims of predatory...

Kobayashi on the Law and Economics of Predatory Pricing
My colleague and co-author Bruce Kobayashi has posted The Law and Economics of Predatory Pricing to SSRN and is forthcoming in Keith Hylton’s Antitrust Law and Economics volume (Edward Elgar Publishing)...

Jeff Schmidt to Leave FTC
Jeff Schmidt, the current Director of the Bureau of Competition, will leave the FTC. He will be replaced by David P. Wales as Acting Director. The FTC’s press release states: Schmidt joined the Commission in February 2005 as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition...

Congress looks into Hawai`i's air-travel woes
"Hawaii?s Congressional Delegation comes out strong to expose unfair competition in Hawaii?s skies by Mesa Air Group"

Goods unit pricing
The Competition Policy & Consumer Affairs Minister, Chris Bowen MP, has released an issues paper calling for public comment on developing a national goods unit pricing regime. Unit pricing (or comparative pricing) is the display of the price of goods...

ACCC draft merger guidelines
The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has issued Draft Merger Guidelines 2008 for public comment. The guidelines outline the ACCC's administration and enforcement policy for dealing with mergers under the Trade Practices Act...

Child Support Survival Guide
The Child Support Enforcement System

Anzemet Pricing
Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to $22.7 million settlement for inflating drug prices.

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.