Corporate & Securities Law

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...

Panelists: Balance Needed Between Antitrust Law, Patent Quality
By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC - A careful balance must be struck between ensuring the quality of the United States patent system - and the patents themselves - and antitrust law to ensure that new technologies and services can be brought to market, particularly in the ...

A Few Antitrust Links
Antitrust Review reports on Obama on Antitrust (”?We?re going to have an antitrust division in the Justice Department that actually believes in antitrust law. We haven?t had that for the last seven, eight years”) Danny Sokol wants you to sign the letters at the link to support direct appropriations for technical assistance Commissioner Rosch on the State [...

High Cost of Prescription Drugs
USAToday has an article concerning the rapidly rising costs of prescription drugs. Julie Appleby reports, People with health insurance are having more trouble paying for prescription drugs as higher out-of-pocket costs for medications and a slowing economy strain family budgets,...

The Costs of International Antitrust Enforcement and Superficial Convergence
There is an interesting profile on Intel in the WSJ.   While the profile focuses on some of the technological and competitive challenges facing Intel and CEO Paul Otellini, the CEO mentions the proliferation of antitrust laws across the globe, and the uncertainty associated with regulatory costs in such an environment, as one of the major potential impediments facing [...

Encouraging News Congress Prepares to Undo Anticipated Supreme Court Decision Precluding Lawsuits Over Dangerous Drugs
In the event that the Supreme Court applies the federal doctrine of preemption to permit the pharmaceutical industry to avoid accountability for the harm dangerous drugs cause, the only remedy would be for Congress to pass a law expressly stating that preemption does not preclude state court lawsuits for compensation...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Employee Lawsuits (An Introduction and Topic Overview)
How employers can cope with the siege of employee lawsuits

Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.

Mississippi Antitrust
Costs Microsoft $100 Million

WaMu Cash Balance Pension Plan - Partial Preliminary Settlement
WaMu Cash Balance Pension Plan Partial Preliminary Settlement

Hormone Replacement Therapy Lawsuits See Multi-Million Dollar Settlements
HRT Lawsuits Pharma Faces Multi Million Dollar Settlements

GlaxoSmithKline Pays $750 Million Over Defective Drugs
GlaxoSmithKline Pays $750 Million Over Defective Drugs

Countrywide Financial Corp
Served with Two Lawsuits

Comcast
facing lawsuits from BitTorrent Throttling