Tag: Court
DOJ’s Attempt to Block the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Places the Horizontal Merger...
Benjamin Brown, Oct 31, 2011
In the U.S. antitrust merger enforcement community, many believed that the Department of Justice ("DOJ") would sue to enjoin any...
Mergers with Dominant Firms: The Lundbeck Case
Herbert Hovenkamp, Dec 13, 2011
In Lundbeck the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court's decision approving a merger of the only two drugs authorized to...
Time-Series Models for Estimating Economic Damages in Antitrust (and Other) Litigation:...
Paul Godek, Dec 13, 2011
Economic damages can arise from a variety of bad acts: a breach of contract, a patent violation, an oil-spill, or...
Recovery in the U.S. for Price Fixing Abroad: The Future of...
Alicia Batts, Keith Butler, Nov 16, 2011
As global economic trade has increased, so has the number of price-fixing plaintiffs who have sought recovery in...
Minn-Chem Incorporated et al. v. Agrium Incorporated et al.: A Canadian...
Erika Douglas, Mark Katz, Nov 16, 2011
This article provides a Canadian perspective on the recent decision of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals...
A Tale of Two Panels: The Size of the Chancellor’s Foot...
Chris Sagers, Nov 16, 2011
Pretty strong words have been bandied in the few years since Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly. Two leading procedure scholars...
The Future Legacy of the AT&T/ T-Mobile Merger Case
Jonathan Rubin, Oct 31, 2011
The government's challenge to the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile's U.S. wireless communications business by AT&T Mobility could leave a lasting...
DOJ’s Attempt to Block the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Places the Horizontal Merger...
Benjamin Brown, Oct 31, 2011
In the U.S. antitrust merger enforcement community, many believed that the Department of Justice ("DOJ") would sue to enjoin any...
AT&T/T-Mobile: Does Efficiency Really Count?
FCCHoward Chang, David Evans, Richard Schmalensee, Oct 31, 2011
AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile faces two major court challenges: the Justice Department's suit...
Oops, They Did it Again: What We Didn’t Learn From U.S....
Larry Downes, Oct 31, 2011
On Aug 31, 2011, the Department of Justice, joined later by seven state attorneys general filed suit to block AT&T's...
