The holiday season comes to an end, a perfect time to catch up on all the major developments brewing across the world as authorities and businesses make ready to tackle the controversial topics brewing for the short – and the long – terms. Issues such as the handling of previously unknown commodities in the Data business, the appropriate weight of sentences and fines, and a seemingly frantic re-writing of rules for merger transactions in response to our increasingly connected world.
In a post last year, I argued that it was time for competition economists, both academics and practitioners, to start seriously tackling one of the big unknowns: how much harm is deterred by Competition Law and the Competition Authorities (CAs)?
Steve Davies (UEA Competition Blog)
Eckart Budelmann (Bryan Cave)
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has decided to appeal the sentences imposed by the Central Criminal Court (the Court) on 31 May 2017 in Ireland’s first bid-rigging criminal cartel case.
Paul K. Gorecki (Kluwer Competition)
Paolissa Nebbia (Shearman Sterling/Lexology)
EnJeu (Norton Rose Fulbright)
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 significantly expanded the jurisdiction of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (‘CAT’)….
Sebastian Peyer (UEA Competition Blog)
You drive around the neighborhood with him and discover that other kids seem to be selling lemonade at $7 per glass, which seems a little high, but it is a wealthy neighborhood, so perhaps that is the market price? It has been a warm, surprisingly humid summer in San Diego. You discuss with Johnny how that weather pattern increases demand. Of course, it did seem odd to you that everyone was selling lemonade at exactly $7 per glass, but you dismiss it….
Jarod Bona (The Antitrust Attorney)
On August 29, 2017, the D.C. Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision dismissing a suit filed by 2012 third-party presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, their running mates, their campaigns, and the parties they represented (together, “Plaintiffs”) against the Commission on Presidential Debates…
How difficult is it to get an antitrust conspiracy case to a jury when there is no direct evidence of the alleged conspiracy? An August 3 decision of the federal district court in Chicago in a long-running class action against paper companies for conspiring to raise prices…
Jeffery May (Wolters Kluwer)
Senators Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and Benjamin Sasse recently proposed a bill to enact the Restoring Board Immunity Act of 2017, which would give state licensing boards antitrust immunity that they may not otherwise be entitled to under the state-action immunity doctrine…
Aaron Gott (Cartel Capers)
On the 14th August 2017, it was widely reported in the UK press how Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission President, is preparing to unveil EU foreign takeover controls at a keynote speech in September.
Roman Madej (Bryan Cave)
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