On Capitol Hill, antitrust bills advance as Khan stumbles

Antitrust enforcers have received mixed receptions on Capitol Hill in recent weeks.

Federal-state relations could use more structure, won’t get much

There are getting to be an awful lot of cooks clustered around the antitrust soup kettle. The question is what to do about it.

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Court to condom-maker: Give it up

Fork it over, says the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Legislators question shuttering of regional Justice offices

U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) delivered a public thrashing to Sharis Pozen, the Justice Department’s acting attorney general for antitrust, at a congressional oversight hearing last week, joining...

Is that Fido around your throat?

Is that fur on your jacket raccoon? Or is it dog?

More headaches ahead for Express Scripts-Medco

Like the proposed AT&T-T Mobile merger, the Express Scripts-Medco merger appears to be in deep trouble.

Antitrust regulators in US, EU investigating E-books

Several major participants in the electronic book industry, including Apple Inc., are facing a series of investigations domestically and internationally into whether they illegally restricted...

FTC: N.C. dental board blocked competition

The FTC has determined that the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners illegally thwarted competition by working to bar non-dentist providers of teeth-whitening products and services from...

Lundbeck, revisited

An eight-day bench hearing held in Minneapolis, Minn., in December 2009, could have far-reaching legal implications for antitrust law, particularly regarding future pharmaceutical cases. It could...

Abramoff gives Washingtonians lessons on integrity

The rear book jacket of most books usually contains admiring comments from fellow authors. But Jack Abramoff’s “Capitol Punishment” features the best of the colorful insults directed his way during...

Guest Opinion: Diana Moss urges tougher landing-slot enforcement

In yet another installment in the saga of domestic airline consolidation, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has blessed a proposal by Delta and U.S. Airways to swap takeoff and landing...

Richard Cordray: Is the brawl just about the election?

The battle over Senate approval of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director has reached a fever pitch in Washington lately. After the Senate voted Dec. 8 to block the nomination of Richard...

CFPB unveils simplified credit card agreement

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau introduced a prototype simplified credit card agreement aimed at helping consumers understand price, risks and terms.

Paternity testing

The Federal Trade Commission will require laboratory testing companies Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings and Orchid Cellmark Inc. to sell Orchid’s paternity-testing business that focuses on...

Skin creams

The Federal Trade Commission has approved orders requiring Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. to divest three skin drugs as conditions of acquiring Ortho Dermatologics Inc. from Johnson &...

Bid-rigging

Four real estate investors and an auctioneer were indicted by a federal grand jury in Sacramento for their alleged participation in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real...

Price-fixing

Three executives from Korean Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc. (HLDS) have agreed to plead guilty and serve seven to eight months in a U.S. prison for participating in a series of conspiracies to bid...

Nestle in China

Chinese antitrust authorities’ approval of Swiss food giant Nestle’s bid to buy Chinese candy maker Hsu Fu Chin International for $1.7 billion is a signal that China is relaxing its vigilance...

Laundry products fine

France’s antitrust agency has fined three laundry detergent makers – Procter & Gamble, Henkel and Colgate Palmolive--361.3 million euros for colluding to determine prices and promotions of laundry...