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NCAA’s Loss In O’Bannon Trial May Be Only A Partial Victory For Competition

Posted  08/13/14
By Jeffrey Shinder and David Scupp Although competition scored a win on Friday in the student athletes’ antitrust suit led by former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon against the NCAA, it wasn’t a complete blowout. Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a 99-page decision that permanently enjoins the NCAA from enforcing its blanket restriction on FBS...

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Federal Court Denies Class Certification In Intel Antitrust Litigation

Posted  08/7/14
By David Golden Plaintiffs in the long-running In re Intel Corporation Microprocessor Antitrust Litigation class action have suffered a major setback with last week’s denial of class certification by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. The lawsuit, filed in 2005, alleges that Intel illegally excluded its major rival, Advanced Micro Devices (commonly referred to as “AMD”), from the U.S....

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China Ramps Up Antitrust Enforcement With Second Round Of Raids Of Microsoft Today 

Posted  08/6/14
Why you should take notice if you do business in China By Aymeric Dumas-Eymard Almost six years to the day after China began enforcing its Antimonopoly Law (“AML”), China’s antitrust authorities are marking the anniversary with a bang as they followed up last week’s raids of U.S. software giant Microsoft with a second round of raids today. China’s antitrust regulator the State Administration for...

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Massachusetts Court Hosts Debate On Whether Partners HealthCare Merger Settlement Will Affect The Common Health Of The Commonwealth

Posted  08/4/14
By Daniel Vitelli
A Massachusetts state court has extended the time for a contentious debate on a proposed antitrust settlement that the Massachusetts State Attorney General says will help hold down medical expenses, and critics say will result in greater market power for the state’s largest health care system. Attorney General Martha Coakley is asking Suffolk Superior Court Judge Janet L. Sanders to approve a consent judgment...

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In re Student Athlete Name and Likeness Litigation – Recap Of The First Week Of Trial

Posted  06/16/14
By David Scupp The participants in the highly anticipated, and potentially transformative, antitrust trial In re Student Athlete Name and Likeness Licensing Litigation spent their first week of trial grappling with the myths and realities of college athletics. Plaintiffs, led by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon, challenge the NCAA’s rules denying compensation to college athletes for use of their name...

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EU General Court Upholds Record 1.06 Billion Euro Antitrust Fine Against Intel

Posted  06/16/14
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office By Irene Fraile The General Court of the European Union has dismissed Intel’s appeal of the European Commission´s decision fining the computer chip manufacturer a record 1.06 billion euros for breaching EU competition law. The European Commission imposed the fine on Intel in May 2009, after finding that Intel abused its dominant position in the x86 CPU...

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Container Shipping Companies Seek To Steer Clear Of European Antitrust Shoals

Posted  06/9/14
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office By Natalia Mikolajczyk and Richard Pike Major container shipping companies are attempting to resolve the European Commission’s antitrust probe into their practice of publicly announcing price increases. The two biggest players in the container shipping market, A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S and Mediterranean Shipping Company, hope to end the proceedings without...

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District Court Rejects “Double Counting” Attack On Damages Theory In Meritor’s Exclusive Dealing Case

Posted  06/6/14
By Matthew L. Cantor and Allison F. Sheedy Judge Sue L. Robinson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware has denied a motion for summary judgment on damages in ZF Meritor LLC and Meritor Transmission Corporation v. Eaton Corporation, setting up the long-running antitrust case for a trial on damages that is slated to start on June 23, 2014. Plaintiffs are now free to seek the full $800 million...

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$20 Million Settlement Domino Falls In High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation, With More On The Brink

Posted  05/22/14
By David Golden The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has granted the motion of plaintiffs in In Re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation for final approval of class action settlements with Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Intuit for $20 million. The court’s final approval of these settlements follows the recent announcement of another, much larger, proposed settlement in the same lawsuit...

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European Commissioner Rebuffs German CEO’s Criticisms Of Google Search Engine Settlement

Posted  05/16/14
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office By Michael Petrides The European Commission’s Competition Commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, is strongly defending the EC from charges that its proposed settlement with Google concerning search engine practices would permit Google to expand its dominant market position. Commissioner Alumina’s defense of the proposed settlement joins a debate with Matthias...

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