Antitrust Law 
Fate Of Hong Kong’s 1st Antitrust Bill Hangs In Balance – site.law360.com
Law360, New York (October 28, 2011, 2:41 PM ET) — While Hong Kong’s administration made substantial concessions to the business community when it submitted a scaled-back version of the city’s first-ever competition bill to lawmakers Tuesday, it remains …
Intel Tries To Trim NY AG’s Antitrust Claims – site.law360.com
Law360, Wilmington (October 27, 2011, 9:09 PM ET) — Intel Corp. on Thursday told a Delaware federal court to slash an antitrust suit brought by New York’s attorney general, saying the state is barred by statute from bringing certain claims … Continue reading
United States: Due Process Limitations On Indirect Purchaser Claims Under The Cartwright Act: Toward A New Standard? – Mondaq
Antitrust News & Notes is a bi-monthly report concerning recent developments, issues, and matters of interest in antitrust law and competition policy. Hong Kong’s Competition Law – Where Are We At? (Mayer Brown ) On 26 July 2011, the Bills … Continue reading
Transitions Lens Users’ Antitrust Claims Tossed – site.law360.com
Law360, New York (October 27, 2011, 3:51 PM ET) — A Florida federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a class of indirect purchasers’ suit against lens maker Transitions Optical Inc., saying the end users of the corrective lenses needed to make … Continue reading
California Property Investors to Plead Guilty to Bid-Rigging – Bloomberg
The investors face sentences of as long as 10 years in prison for violating U.S. antitrust law and as long as 30 years for conspiring to commit mail fraud, the Justice Department said. Charges were filed today in federal court … Continue reading
Package dealing: FTC zeroes in on Android phone pre-loads – New York Post
Federal antitrust investigators, nearly four months into a wide-ranging … Geoffrey Manne, executive director at the Google-funded International Center for Law & Economics, said the FTC “would need to show customer harm” in favoring a site like …
Sprint’s Hand in Antitrust Suit – New York Times
Judges generally look askance at competitors’ lawsuits to block mergers. Antitrust law doesn’t protect rivals from harmful competition, the Supreme Court has ruled, unless it’s clear their injuries would also damage consumers. Merely …
Antitrust Whistleblower Gets 2 Years For Falsified Doc – site.law360.com
Law360, New York (October 26, 2011, 2:31 PM ET) — A former Champion Laboratories Inc. employee who blew the whistle on the company and other auto filter manufacturers for alleged price-fixing, helping spawn multidistrict litigation targeting the industry …
Final Distribution Made in Landmark Visa/MasterCard Antitrust Settlement – Yahoo Finance
research and advocacy concerning antitrust law. The remaining funds will be split evenly between two consumer organizations: U.S. PIRG, a federation of state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs); and Consumers Union of the United States. The settlement …
Flour Supplier Accepts €24M Fine To End Antitrust Probe – site.law360.com
Law360, New York (October 25, 2011, 6:14 PM ET) — Germany’s competition agency on Tuesday leveled a €23.8 million ($33.1 million) fine against leading flour supplier VK Muehlen AG, after the company agreed to pay to end the regulator’s probe … Continue reading
