How To Use Antitrust In A Sentence
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Still, for the medium term, either the government needs to scutinize refinery activity much more closely, adopt new regulatory authority and aggressively enforce antitrust laws, or it must intervene to deconcentrate the market.
Robert Weissman: What To Do About the Price of Oil
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Europe's top appeals court will announce its decision Sept. 17 on Microsoft's appeal of Europe's largest antitrust case ever.
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The European Commission can confirm that Microsoft has proposed a consumer ballot screen as a solution to the pending antitrust case, " it said in a statement.
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The lack of overlap between the two companies makes antitrust problems unlikely, although it also limits cost synergies from crunching the two businesses together to $400 million.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brenntag bolstered its compliance efforts and there is zero tolerance for antitrust violations at the company, its spokesman, Hubertus Spethmann, said.
Lender Liquidity, German Tax Dodgers, French Solar: Compliance - Bloomberg
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The potential concentration of those activities might also prompt antitrust regulators to give any merger close scrutiny, Threlfall said.
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More NYSE Takeover Faces Touchy Issues Justice Department officials will scrutinize the proposed deal for antitrust implications, though the formal launch of an investigation won't happen until the two companies file their premerger notification.
Regulators Line Up to Vet Potential Deal
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IATA halves forecast 2010 loss to $2.8 billion from $5.6 billion Korean regulators tag KE, Asiana for antitrust violations; KE faces ACCC cargo charge
ATW Daily News
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Supreme Court Monday declined to review a ruling that reinstated an antitrust lawsuit alleging major record labels conspired to fix prices and terms under which music would be sold over the Internet.
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Apparently antitrust lawyers don’t exist in bluebook world?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Case for Abolishing the Bluebook
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An antitrust judgment in 1954 forced the firm to release stranglehold on the shoe machinery market.
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A different picture emerges: the US has tended to circumscribe IP rights and subject them to more aggressive antitrust scrutiny than the EU.
IPSC: final plenary
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The NFL could unilaterally institute its final offer to the union -- in that case what the clubs would pay players on what used to be called the "taxi" squads -- without having to worry about the implications of the antitrust laws, which would have made the collusive decision of the owners a clear violation of law.
Roger I. Abrams: Eighth Circuit Heading in the Wrong Direction in Football Dispute
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The company now faces antitrust investigation by the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union.
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This is critical, because without such protection, tanners seeking to collaboratively market their products would face a serious risk of antitrust litigation.
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Wind said connection refusals have been anomalously high among its applications for them, the Antitrust Authority said.
Telecom Italia Faces Antitrust Probe in Italy
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The two businesses will need clearance from antitrust regulators before the final agreement can be signed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Antitrust authorities must investigate the effect and purpose of an agreement to determine its legality.
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There are a lot of competition restriction stipulations in the labor agreement of NBA, but the application of the antitrust law can be dodged by means of labor exemption.
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Most of us thought that during the past few years Janet Reno's antitrust czar and his prosecution team were turned on by lawyerlike stuff like consent decrees, special masters and making Bill Gates's lawyers look like crash dummies in court.
Joel Klein, Entrepreneur
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Agribusiness mergers often don't create a big enough share of a market to trigger antitrust laws.
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Antitrust authorities must investigate the effect and purpose of an agreement to determine its legality.
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In a stunning reversal of laissez-faire and a repudiation of the American devotion to free and competitive markets, the NIRA and the National Recovery Administration NRA, which put the law into practice, suspended all federal antitrust laws and created cartels of businesses in every major industry that—instead of market forces—decided how much products would cost, how much workers would make, and how much companies would produce.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Antitrust authorities must investigate the effect and purpose of an agreement to determine its legality.
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The intervention in a long-running antitrust case has caused astonishment in media circles.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the logical remedy for competitive sloth is stiffened antitrust enforcement.
Ian Fletcher: Is a Flat Tariff the Answer to America's Trade Mess?
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But the same could have been said by the Robber Barons of old whose predatory pricing ushered in a host of antitrust laws designed to protect markets from monopolism.
Diane Francis: Amazon, the Latter-Day Robber Baron
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All of which now makes me wonder: when you come right down to it, did the antitrust trial of the century make a whit of difference?
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That's free enterprise, not a violation of antitrust law, which is defined as a group monopolizing trade or commerce through unreasonable methods.
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Possible antitrust concerns could be allayed if Access were to divest Warner's publishing business or if it were only to acquire EMI's recorded-music arm.
Hoping EMI Will Strike A Better Note for Citi
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Congress tried to help the farm sector by exempting it from federal antitrust law.
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Tom and I agree that the ultimate purpose of the antitrust laws is to help consumers.
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European antitrust regulators are also talking to them.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was based on the DOJ's antitrust division's view that the acquisition as originally proposed would significantly hamper U.S. refinery desalter manufacturing competition, resulting in higher prices and lower quality, service, and innovation.
Undefined
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And it's the same Obama who, in the same 2008 interview about media consolidation, said, "There is a clear need in this country for the reinvigoration of antitrust enforcement. ... to step up review of merger activity and take effective action to stop or restructure those mergers that are likely to harm consumer welfare.
Josh Silver: Comcastrophe: Comcast/NBC Merger Approved
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It was abandoned after the Justice Department charged that portions of it violated antitrust laws.
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Both of these Republican presidents undertook aggressive antitrust actions, and both strongly supported, and expanded, federal housing programs.
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Complement at the same time the new evidence that provided the accused to violate antitrust law.
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Vaughn Cordle at AirlineForecasts says when he ran the market-concentration formulas that regulators use in analyzing the antitrust implications of the merger, a merged United and Continental didn't set off alarms.
Boards of United, Continental Airlines OK plan to merge
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Google has said the Yahoo deal doesn't violate antitrust law.
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He's no radical, but at least he talks about raising income and enforcing antitrust.
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The decision suggests the judiciary considers NFL teams independent businesses, something that could prove costly if its players union abandons the collective bargaining process, decertifies, and sues the league on antitrust grounds.
Is the NFL Fumbling at the Goal Line?
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No order of the commission, board, or Secretary or judgment of the court to enforce the same shall in anywise relieve or absolve any person from any liability under the antitrust laws.
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Federal and state antitrust laws generally forbid any "monopolization" of commerce.
LewRockwell.com
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The Act provides dairy producers who join together a specific exemption from antitrust laws.
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But antitrust law focuses on the power of sellers and potential injury to consumers.
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Nor did the court suggest that antitrust laws did not apply.
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Microsoft is expected to review the charges and have a response within the next two months. failed court appeal by Microsoft last year against the original European antitrust ruling, the new charges are just some of the many charges anticipated - originally stemming from a complaint lodged from the Norwegian browser developer, Opera Software.
News Tom's Hardware US
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Here we take a look at the history of antitrust laws and examine some of the arguments against them.
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Those tactics have led to antitrust cases worldwide.
Times, Sunday Times
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The EU has scotched the name the company had planned for the unbundled versions of its operating system that it must ship in Europe as result of last year's antitrust decree.
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The reason antitrust investigations of Google are needed is because its business is not search or email or any other visible tool most users see, but the accumulation of vast aggregations of personal data deployed on behalf of its advertising customers.
Nathan Newman: The Cost of Lost Privacy, Part 3: Google, the Subprime Meltdown and Antitrust Implications
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And as it found, litigating against the government's antitrust legal eagles can be a long, drawn-out affair.
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If we cannot get a better system, we might be better off repealing all antitrust laws.
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Harl, who is both an economist and a lawyer, understands antitrust laws and issues very well.
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It also alleges violations of state and federal antitrust laws and public nuisance laws.
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Deutsche Boerse believes the proposal by Nasdaq and ICE would burden shareholders with irresponsible leverage, eliminate a competitor and face insurmountable antitrust risk," it said.
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Here our antitrust laws provide some guidance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government responded in 1890 with the Sherman Antitrust Act, which made it illegal for any person or business to monopolize trade , or to contract, combine or conspire to restrict trade .
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President Obama promised early in his administration to "reinvigorate" antitrust enforcement, which involved the Justice Department disavowing Bush era guidelines.
Monsanto Draws Antitrust Scrutiny
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The intervention in a long-running antitrust case has caused astonishment in media circles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Think of Apple in its current form as an attenuated antitrust virus (of the noncomputer variety) for Microsoft.
Bill Does What's Good For Bill
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The debate is similar to that surrounding the application of the rule of reason in American antitrust law which is referred to at the end of this chapter.
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The team also featured O'Melveny finance partner Sherri Snelson, who advised on the debt side, tax partner Jan Birtwell and Brussels antitrust partner Christian Riis-Madsen.
The Lawyer - Latest News
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Sears then countered by filing an antitrust lawsuit.
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Initially, the antitrust law provisions were inserted into the Treaty in view of their role in the process of market integration.
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Antitrust standards are notoriously "squishy," and Varney's assertion that a New Deal-like relaxation of enforcement is a clear and present danger (hyperbole on my part) may be more populist than practical.
Discourse.net: Why Aren't Hardware Limits on Netbooks an Anti-Trust Violation?
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Assuming antitrust authorities permit the deal to go through, the 55-year-old Mr. Smisek (pronounced SMY-zek), who took the helm of Continental in January, is to become CEO of the merged carrier.
As UAL Flirted, Continental Cut In
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The author thought, antitrust law enforcement agency in our country should be established on two principles.
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The most damaging policies were those at the heart of the recovery plan, including The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), which tossed aside the nation's antitrust acts and permitted industries to collusively raise prices provided that they shared their newfound monopoly rents with workers by substantially raising wages well above underlying productivity growth.
How Government Prolonged the Depression
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If the government feels outmatched, it could hire an outside counsel in the same way it brought in David Boies to handle its antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. The move could be perceived as a slight to its in-house prosecutors, however, so it would likely do so only reluctantly.
Antitrust Suit Hems AT&T
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Compared with post licensing. ante licensing can improve social welfare under the framework of antitrust law.
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The lack of overlap between the two companies makes antitrust problems unlikely, although it also limits cost synergies from crunching the two businesses together to $400 million.
Times, Sunday Times
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Buffeted by market forces and unmoored by the American Institute of Architects' inability to set and enforce professional fee guidelines (thanks to antitrust laws), architects have no dock in this storm.
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That, the plaintiffs maintain, is discriminatory, unfair and contrary to US antitrust law.
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How is federal antitrust law used to combat the effects of a monopoly?
Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
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In March, Japanese antitrust investigators found the company guilty of anticompetitive actions - again following complaints from AMD.
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The NCAA has traditionally fought antitrust issues--successfully so far--by arguing that it's preserving "amateurism" in college sports.
No Competition
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Monday declined to review a ruling that reinstated an antitrust lawsuit alleging major record labels conspired to fix prices and terms under which music would be sold over the
FOXNews.com
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The lack of overlap between the two companies makes antitrust problems unlikely, although it also limits cost synergies from crunching the two businesses together to $400 million.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hour is late, but Congress may toughen antitrust and fair trade laws if you speak out
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This was the first inter-state trust, which stimulated antitrust legislation.
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The European Commission can confirm that Microsoft has proposed a consumer ballot screen as a solution to the pending antitrust case, " it said in a statement.
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California Attorney General Dan Lungren also will make antitrust decisions in several weeks regarding both merger proposals, the regulators said.
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It was decided at the time that buyers could not claim damages for overcharges by antitrust violators unless they bought the product directly from the manufacturer.
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But industry analysts have said they don't expect steelmakers to object to such a combination or believe that a linkup would lead to antitrust issues because there are still enough other big producers of steelmaking coal.
Alpha Nears Pact to Buy Massey
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Microsoft has emerged as a chief flogger of an antitrust case against Google.
The Trustbusters' Last Meal Ticket
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After all, that's why we have antitrust laws.
Times, Sunday Times
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Microsoft and Caldera announced they have reached a mutually agreeable settlement of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Caldera in July 1996.
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We added a consumer protection unit to the office, and then, after investigating price-fixing by a company that sold gymnasium bleachers to school districts, we created an antitrust unit.
The Good Fight
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It was the second time antitrust enforcers have singled out the company in less than a month.
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Webster's Ninth has recorded as main entries broncobuster (1887) ` one who breaks wild horses to the saddle '; trustbuster (1903) ` one who seeks to break up business trusts; specif: a federal official who prosecutes trusts under the antitrust laws'; sodbuster (ca. 1918) ` one (as a farmer or a plow) that breaks the sod '; gangbuster
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
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Korean regulators tag KE, Asiana for antitrust violations; KE faces ACCC cargo charge
ATW Daily News
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The Times-Metro deal hit a snag in January, when the Justice Department announced it was investigating possible antitrust ramifications.
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The Clayton Antitrust Act tried to define more clearly what was meant by restraint of trade.
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What is at first glance surprising is that so few mergers and acquisitions of banks have fallen into the antitrust net.
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They enforced the then recent antitrust legislation which had been allowed to lay idle.
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No matter, as one antitrust case fades another begins to move into the foreground.
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China's government launched a high-level commission to oversee enforcement of its new antitrust legislation, which is already facing a test from Coca-Cola Co.
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Antitrust authorities must investigate the effect and purpose of an agreement to determine its legality.
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Equally disturbing is the apparent inability of antitrust law to come up with effective solutions to anticompetitive behavior.
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Because of those antitrust laws we can't just pick a price for all architects to follow and stick to it.
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Mr. Schmidt is familiar with the game as chief technology officer of Sun Microsystems in the 1990s, he was a chief fomenter of the antitrust assault on Bill Gates
Google and the Search for the Future
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Microsoft was accused to violate antitrust law , but in those days already too late.
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With the Obama administration's Justice Department vowing to "reinvigorate" antitrust enforcement, some in the business community had feared the new guidelines would signal a tougher treatment of mergers.
Antitrust Regulators Unveil Merger Guidelines
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China's government launched a high-level commission to oversee enforcement of its new antitrust legislation, which is already facing a test from Coca-Cola Co.
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After the close of the financial half-year, partial settlements were reached on three antitrust cases.
Times, Sunday Times
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United and Continental could face greater scrutiny because of that combination's size and the Obama administration's vow to "reinvigorate" antitrust enforcement.
United Airlines, Continental to Announce Merger
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In places like Riyadh and Moscow and Oslo and Mexico City and Vienna - where OPEC and other oil producers are meeting to set oil prices - the very notion of U.S. antitrust principles must be good for a horse laugh.
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This can be extended if regulators identify antitrust problems or receive complaints from rivals.
Times, Sunday Times
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The strength of this approach comes from the regulator being pro-active with an ongoing monopoly or antitrust policy.
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DECADE AGO, THE DEPARTMENT of Justice filed its landmark antitrust case against Microsoft.
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That proposal "is subject to significant regulatory uncertainty, and, despite Omnicare's non-specific assurances to the contrary, antitrust clearance to combine the No. 1 and No. 2 players in institutional pharmacy is likely to be difficult to achieve and involve lengthy administrative and court proceedings," PharMerica said.
Omnicare Makes $441 Million Bid for PharMerica, Seeks Talks
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Robert Szabo, executive director of Consumers United for Rail Equity, which represents shippers, said he was "heartened" by Mr. Elliott's testimony, which he viewed as part of a broader effort by the Obama administration and Congress to strengthen antitrust laws.
Nominee Calls for Scrutiny of Rail Freight Pricing
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The MLB is exempt from antitrust law in the US and Congress has no desire to remedy the situation (see, e.g. Flood v. Kuhn).
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right:
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The Export Trading Act allows the Secretary of Commerce to issue a Certificate of Review to a trading entity that protects it from criminal liability and treble damages under state and federal antitrust laws.
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Masimo sued Tyco Healthcare and others, alleging antitrust violations in markets for pulse oximetry, medical devices used to measure the concentration of oxygen in the blood.
Eye On Stocks For Monday, March 27, 2006 Eye On Stocks For Monday, March 27
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No order of the commission, board, or Secretary or judgment of the court to enforce the same shall in anywise relieve or absolve any person from any liability under the antitrust laws.
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If there's no settlement and no lockout--perhaps by virtue of the players decertifying the union and filing an antitrust lawsuit against the owners--the issue presumably will be addressed in whatever system is put in place.
Colts place franchise player tag on Peyton Manning
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Antitrust authorities must investigate the effect and purpose of an agreement to determine its legality.
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Other branches of public law include securities laws, labor laws, and antitrust laws.
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When still a young man, in the early years of the century, an antitrust suit had almost destroyed him.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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Japan's antitrust watchdog fines Samsung SDI for price-rigging
WN.com - Articles related to 3D TVs new battleground for plasma, LCD display makers
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This has meant aggressive antitrust law to reduce concentrated economic power, strict limits on the role of money in politics, support for unions as an equalizing force in the workplace, safety nets to ensure the independence of even the unlucky or untalented, universally accessible education to make equality of opportunity real, and, yes, redistribution of wealth to level out economic power and keep the society from the fraying of deep inequality.
Jedediah Purdy: All-American Socialism?
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The Chief Judge dissented, noting, "this court's unprecedented decision leads to the ineluctable result of union decertification in order to invoke rights to which players are clearly entitled under the antitrust laws.
David Morris: The Superbowl Is Over -- Now The Real Combat Begins
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He served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division.
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Swiss antitrust authorities have launched an investigation into allegations BMW is preventing sales of its new cars to Swiss residents outside the country's borders.
Business Watch
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WASHINGTON Reuters - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a ruling that reinstated an antitrust lawsuit alleging major record labels conspired to fix prices and terms under which music would be sold over the Internet.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Justice has mounted what looks like a serious antitrust investigation.
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entered into an advertising dalliance with Google, but this fell apart after antitrust authorities signalled that they would not approve such an agreement.
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It's one of the major pleasures of having an exemption from the nation's antitrust laws.
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He was found guilty of conspiring to obstruct an antitrust inquiry into alleged price-fixing in the 1990s.
Times, Sunday Times
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BRUSSELS—The European Commission on Monday said it has sharply reduced an antitrust fine levied against steel giant ArcelorMittal for participating in a long-running cartel operated by prestressing steel producers.
EU Slashes ArcelorMittal Antitrust Fine
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We have established social legislation like welfare programs, antitrust laws, and a social security system.
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Unable to compete in the market, some of Microsoft's rivals have already sought refuge in antitrust law.
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The regulatory commissions and antitrust laws will be examined critically in Chapter 34.
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What is at first glance surprising is that so few mergers and acquisitions of banks have fallen into the antitrust net.
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Using antitrust laws to regulate business practices like bundling is not likely to benefit consumers.
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So it's a funny thing that the U.S. government is officially antitrust.
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The lack of overlap between the two companies makes antitrust problems unlikely, although it also limits cost synergies from crunching the two businesses together to $400 million.
Times, Sunday Times
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puckish" Microsoft move, says antitrust expert in an analysis of the latest maneuver.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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Antitrust suits as a means of enforcing the law, Roosevelt declared, were "irksome" and prolonged affairs.
LewRockwell.com
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He was sullen and evasive in his videotaped deposition for the governments antitrust case and the judge scolded him for lack of candor.
