Contact

Click here for a confidential contact or call:

1-212-350-2774

Antitrust Legislation

Return to:

Page 2 of 5

EU Accepts Visa Interchange Fee Caps

Posted  03/3/14
By Aymeric Dumas-Eymard Visa has just closed a chapter of its antitrust woes in the European Union. On February 26, 2014, the European Commission announced that it had rendered legally binding the commitments offered by Visa Europe to cap its yearly weighted average Multilateral Interchange Fees (MIFs) for consumer credit card transactions at a level of 0.3% of the value of the transaction.  The cap will apply...

Tagged in: Antitrust Legislation, Antitrust Litigation, Antitrust Policy,

Read More

Umbrella Liability For Price Fixing: Does The Forecast Call For More Damages In The EU And U.S.?

Posted  02/10/14
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office By Irene Fraile and Ankur Kapoor The European Union may be on the verge of embracing “umbrella liability”—a theory of liability that would significantly increase the exposure of members of anticompetitive cartels. The European Court of Justice is being urged by one of its advocates general to hold that, under EU law, victims of cartels can seek damages...

Tagged in: Antitrust Enforcement, Antitrust Legislation, Antitrust Litigation, Antitrust Policy, International Competition Issues, Monopolization,

Read More

Europeans Evolving Toward More Plaintiff-Friendly Private Damages Action Rules

Posted  12/5/13
 A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office By James Ashe-Taylor and Julia Schaefer The governing institutions of the European Union are moving ahead with proposals that could enable consumers and businesses victimized by antitrust violations to have a better chance at recovering damages from cartel members. Earlier this week, ministers from all 28 member states of the EU agreed at a meeting of the...

Tagged in: Antitrust Legislation, International Competition Issues,

Read More

Prognosis Negative For Congressional Repeal Of Antitrust Exemption For Health Insurers

Posted  04/5/12
Although the fate of Obamacare in the Supreme Court is still an open question, the prognosis is decidedly negative for the congressional effort to repeal the McCarran-Ferguson antitrust exemption for health insurers. Although the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would repeal the antitrust exemption for health insurers, the bill is not likely to pass the...

Tagged in: Antitrust Legislation,

Read More

U.S. Agriculture Competition Rules Get Meat Axed By Industry And Congressional Pressure

Posted  01/11/12
Pressure from the U.S. meat industry and Congress has succeeded in trimming new competition rules designed to help farmers contained in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (“USDA”) final regulations for the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (“GIPSA”). The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (the “2008 Farm Bill”) required the USDA to promulgate new, and clarify existing,...

Tagged in: Antitrust Legislation, Antitrust Policy,

Read More

Antitrust Regulators Will Be Navigating Health Care Reform In Evaluating New Accountable Care Organizations

Posted  10/18/10
While doctors and medical organizations have long had to navigate antitrust concerns in their practices, antitrust regulators will now have to consider health care reform in evaluating collective action by health care providers in groups known as care accountable care organizations (“ACOs”). ACOs are health care provider groups responsible for the cost and quality of care delivered to a group of patients cared...

Tagged in: Antitrust Enforcement, Antitrust Legislation, Antitrust Policy,

Read More

Second Circuit Denies Rehearing En Banc In Cipro Reverse-Payment Litigation

Posted  09/7/10
The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied rehearing en banc today of its recent decision in the reverse-payment case of Arkansas Carpenters Health and Welfare Fund v. Bayer AG (In re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation) – despite the original three-judge appellate panel’s extraordinary invitation to the parties to submit briefs requesting rehearing by the entire court. The case...

Tagged in: Antitrust Legislation, Intellectual Property Law and Antitrust,

Read More

Opposition Mounts Against Measure To Limit Interstate Wine And Beer Sales

Posted  08/11/10
A bill introduced in the House this spring to allow states greater authority to regulate the interstate shipment of alcohol is facing growing opposition. In the latest declaration against the bill, the California Assembly last week unanimously passed Senate Joint Resolution 34, urging Congress to defeat H.R. 5034, the Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness (CARE) Act of 2010. The CARE Act is a short...

Tagged in: Antitrust Legislation,

Read More

House-Senate Conferees Take Aim At Debit Cards

Posted  06/23/10
The House-Senate Conference Committee considering financial services reform legislation is on the verge of adopting provisions that could shake up the world of debit cards. After much controversy and intense lobbying by merchants and banks, key conferees have announced an agreement that preserves most of the Durbin Amendment and, remarkably, adds a critical and potentially groundbreaking new prohibition aimed at...

Tagged in: Antitrust Legislation,

Read More

Banks Enlist Proxies To Fight Durbin Amendment’s Curb On Debit Card Fees

Posted  06/21/10
Recognizing that “credit card companies” and “Wall Street banks” may not have the most sympathetic political image these days, the payment card industry has enlisted small financial institutions as proxies to undercut support for Senator Dick Durbin’s (D.-IL) amendment giving the Federal Reserve the power to scrutinize fees imposed on merchants accepting debit cards. Durbin’s amendment was incorporated...

Tagged in: Antitrust Legislation,

Read More
1 2 3 4 5

Newsletter

Subscribe to receive email updates from the Constantine Cannon blogs

Sign up for: