Antitrust Law

REFILE-COLUMN-Unsinkable ways to avoid a Titanic portfolio – Reuters

Morgan set up the White Star Line as a British-crewed company to side-step U.S. antitrust laws. The banker, who had canceled his trip aboard the Titanic, died in 1913. (It was said that the ship was doomed by the ghosts … Continue reading

REFILE-COLUMN-Unsinkable ways to avoid a Titanic portfolio – Reuters UK

Morgan set up the White Star Line as a British-crewed company to side-step U.S. antitrust laws. The banker, who had canceled his trip aboard the Titanic, died in 1913. (It was said that the ship was doomed by the ghosts … Continue reading

Mr. Broadway,’ a Memoir by Gerald Schoenfeld – New York Times

As a law school graduate with no particular interest in theater … Within a year Schoenfeld finds himself in charge of marshaling a defense against an antitrust suit brought by the Justice Department against the Shuberts.

Behind Facebook’s $1bn Instagram antitrust dodge – The Register

chris dixon (@cdixon) April 9, 2012 But this kind of defensive move is exactly what antitrust laws were designed to inhibit. Let’s face it: Facebook isn’t getting much in the way of technology know-how or infrastructure from Instagram. Even Facebook … Continue reading

Research Roundup: Caring For Dual Eligibles; Antitrust Policy And The Law – Kaiser Health News

Every week, KHN reporter Shefali S. Kulkarni compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. PLoS ONE: Geographic And Racial Variation In Premature Mortality In The U.S.: Analyzing The Disparities — Using data from …

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google and Apple – Searchengine Journal

The lawsuit, which is based on a violation of both the federal Sherman antitrust law and the California Cartwright act, claims that pay and job mobility were negatively affected due to the technology companies conspiring to prevent the recruitment of … Continue reading

Businessman blames St. Petersburg museums for antitrust law violation – rapsinews.com

ST.-PETERSBURG, April 19 – RAPSI. The St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region Commercial Court will hear on May 16 a case of antitrust law violation by major city museums, which denied an individual entrepreneur the right to conduct excursions, according to … Continue reading

European Union antitrust regulators approve Sony-EMI deal – Los Angeles Times

Lemley, an antitrust professor and the director of Stanford Law School’s Program in Law, Science and Technology. “I expect they will approve the merger, but it’s not a done deal.” An FTC spokesman declined to comment. U.S. antitrust regulators could … Continue reading

More Apple antitrust woes: CEO, directors at hub of poaching case – Reuters Blogs

(She did dismiss California state-law business claims, but kept alive all state and federal antitrust allegations.) The class can now proceed with additional discovery.

France Fails to Pry Power Market From EDF, Antitrust Probe Says – Bloomberg

The French antitrust body raises questions about the need to put … The measure would also add an onerous layer of regulation. The Nome law must be “suspended,” said Francois Brottes, a French deputy who advises Socialist presidential …