Dear Blawgletterati:
A rebuke
Drop dead, the Seventh Circuit on November 26 told U.S. firms that want to collect treble damages under the Sherman Act for fixing prices on their foreign subs' purchases overseas.
Either have your subs buy the stuff in the U.S., the panel ruled, or purchase the goods for import into the
Apple settles
Apple has settled up to $841 million of antitrust claims by state attorneys-general and a nationwide class of consumers who bought e-books from Apple and its publisher co-conspirators.
The pact comes almost a year after U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in New York held Apple civilly liable for conspiracy to fix prices, a
Talk about goofy.
Today's WSJ — The Wall Street Journal — includes a column that gets antitrust law so wrong you wonder why the paper's pundits, who include those who write the official editorials, bother.
The column in question takes aim at the U.S. Department of Justice's case that calls Apple and five book publishers
Today the Second Circuit upheld a judgment against cigarette makers who claimed that two New York statutes violated section 1 of the Sherman Act and the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. Freedom Holdings, Inc. v. Cuomo, No. 09-0547-cv (2d Cir. Oct. 18, 2010).
The Empire State passed the laws — which the court