Antitrust Law

A class action has been filed against the National Collegiate Athletic Association on behalf of student athletes who claim their scholarships were revoked under rules that violate federal antitrust laws. The suit was filed on July 25 in federal …

mandatory deposit or other restrictive packaging laws; changes in major customer or supplier contracts or loss of a major customer or supplier; political instability and sanctions; and changes in foreign exchange rates or tax rates. Factors that might …

The European Commission told Lundbeck, a Danish drug company, that it thought the company’s agreements with generic companies violated antitrust laws by preventing the entry, for as long as two years, of competing generic versions of citalopram.

After two years of investigation, regulators in Europe found that Google was violating EU antitrust laws in four areas and it used very specific language to describe these offenses: Google Search. Google provides “preferential treatment” in search …

NEW YORK, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a national law firm concentrating on investor rights, consumer rights and the enforcement of federal antitrust laws, is investigating potential wrongdoing at Capital One …

Nicolas Petit, a law professor at the University of Liège in Belgium … Google also is being investigated by antitrust regulators in the United States. In April, the Federal Trade Commission hired a prominent litigator, Beth A.

These probes are continuing, Joaquin Almunia, the EU’s antitrust chief, said in Brussels today. “Maybe we will announce in the future some more activities in this field,” Almunia said. The commission today proposed a draft law that would …

Less than a month after the deadline Almunia set for Google to offer up proposed antitrust fixes, the competition commissioner said that the company had offered “sufficient explanations” in response to the EC’s four core objections to Google’s search and … Continue reading →

Lundbeck A/S (LUN), the Nordic region’s second-largest drugmaker, was sent a formal antitrust complaint by European Union … believe its practice has violated European competition law,” the Copenhagen-based company said in a statement.

SEATTLE, July 25, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A highly recruited college quarterback whose scholarship was revoked after a coaching change is challenging the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in court, claiming that the organization’s …