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The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  01/8/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Southwest Airlines Settles Suit but Denies Colluding to Keep Ticket Prices High.  A federal judge has approved a $15 million settlement between Southwest Airlines and members of a class-action lawsuit who allege that the company, along with three other airlines, conspired to limit the number of seats...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  01/2/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Ramen price-fixing class action headed for U.S. trial.  A federal judge in San Francisco has refused to dismiss antitrust class action litigation accusing two big South Korean ramen producers of conspiring to fix prices in the United States, clearing the way for a trial.  U.S. District Judge William...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/18/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. AT&T vs. Disney: How the Trump Administration May View 2 Mega-Mergers.  AT&T’s proposed $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner would normally have had a good chance of passing muster with antitrust officials in Washington.  Disney’s bid to purchase 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion, on the other...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/11/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Lawsuit by Minor Leaguers. The Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit filed by minor league baseball players accusing Major League Baseball of colluding to suppress wages, leaving intact a District Court ruling that dismissed the case.  In a one-sentence announcement...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/4/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. CVS Expands Into Insurance With $69 Billion Aetna Bid.  CVS Health wants to do much more than fill your prescription or jab your arm with an annual flu shot.  The drugstore chain is buying the nation's third-largest health insurer in order to push much deeper into customer care.  The evolution won't...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  11/27/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. AT&T Suit May Herald a New Antitrust Era-Or Trumpian Pique.  The Trump administration's decision to oppose the $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger may be clouded by suspicions of political influence.  But considered on its merits, it could mark a significant departure in antitrust policy, one that might...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  11/20/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. With AT&T and Time Warner, Battle Lines Form for an Epic Antitrust Case.  If the government goes to court to block the merger of AT&T and Time Warner, as seems increasingly likely, it may well be the antitrust case of the decade, even without the claims of presidential meddling that have already engulfed...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  11/13/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. AT&T Deal Puts Trump’s Antitrust Cop at Center of a Political Storm.  A year ago, Makan Delrahim predicted that AT&T’s $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner would be approved by regulators.  “I don’t see this as a major antitrust problem,” Mr. Delrahim, then a law professor, said to a Canadian...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  11/6/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. U.S. and AT&T discuss conditions for approval of Time Warner deal.  AT&T Inc. and the U.S. Department of Justice are discussing conditions the No. 2 wireless carrier needs to meet in order to win government antitrust approval for its acquisition of Time Warner Inc., sources familiar with the situation...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  10/30/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Bayer: more antitrust asset sales on the cards after BASF deal.  Bayer said it expected antitrust authorities to make the planned acquisition of Monsanto conditional on more asset sales after agreeing to sell seed and herbicide businesses for 5.9 billion euro ($7 billion) to BASF.  “By no means did the...
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