April 16, 2012
As former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney wraps up the Republican presidential nomination, a man well-known in antitrust circles is emerging at his side as co-chairman of the campaign’s “Justice Advisory Committee.” He is Robert Bork, author of the seminal 1978 book, The Antitrust Paradox, which paved the way for the dominance of the Chicago School as the Supreme Court essentially has adopted the book’s economic efficiency approach in deciding antitrust cases.
April 16, 2012
In closing its investigation of the Express Scripts-Medco merger, the FTC was following its own long history of taking a more tolerant approach than the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division...
April 16, 2012
At a hearing last week on Capitol Hill, congressmen heard more reports on yet another fixture of traditional economic life that is reported to be in its death throes—the independent pharmacists of...
April 16, 2012
One of the big questions since the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is how aggressive the new agency will be in using its broad enforcement powers. Some Republican lawmakers...
April 16, 2012
The Justice Department is warning antitrust lawyers that they should tell their corporate clients to watch out and evaluate whether the contracts by which they purchase goods could be running afoul...
April 16, 2012
Even as some financial institutions worry that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may be heavy-handed in exercising its broad new enforcement authority, the agency drew criticism from...
April 16, 2012
On April 11, the Justice Department announced a major case against Apple, Inc., and five of the country’s six largest publishers of mainstream books, charging that they had conspired to raise the...
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