Tag: Enforcement
What (Not) to Expect From the Oral Hearing
Ulrich Soltsz, Mar 16, 2010
By putting great emphasis on the oral hearing, the new Best Practices package seems to suggest that, in the Commission's...
Oral Hearings and the Best Practices Guidelines
James Modrall, Ruchit Patel, Mar 16, 2010
On January 6, 2010, the European Commission (the "Commission") published for consultation three "Best Practices" documents. Two of...
Is It a Hearing If Nobody is Listening?
Stephen Kinsella, Mar 16, 2010
There are many criticisms of the oral hearing process. Indeed, there is a general growing tide of criticism of the...
Oral Hearings – Neither a Trial nor a State of Play...
Michael Albers, Karen Williams, Mar 16, 2010
Oral hearings have always been one of the more prominent features of the European Commission's procedure in competition...
FTC v. Intel: Applying the “Consumer Choice” Framework to “Pure” Section...
Robert Lande, Feb 28, 2010
Much of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC’s”) Complaint against Intel is identical or similar to charges in cases filed by...
Conduct-Specific Tests? How the FTC Can Reframe the Section 5 Debate
Amanda Reeves, Feb 28, 2010
Over the last few years, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has awakened Section 5’s “unfair methods of competition” prong from...
Intel and the Death of U.S. Antitrust Law
Keith Hylton, Feb 28, 2010
The Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC’s”) new legal attack on Intel threatens to leave the company a shell of its former...
Canadian Competition Authority’s Reach for Foreign Affiliates in its Cartel Investigations
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John Clifford, Hayane Dahmen, Nov 12, 2009
The Competition Act ("the Act") governs all...
The State of Single-Firm Conduct Policy
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Jul 15, 2009
On May 11th, Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney withdrew the Section...
Predation, Exclusion, and Complement Market Monopolization
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Timothy Brennan, Jul 13, 2009
The handling of cases under the rubrics "monopolization,"single-firm conduct,"...