In this issue: Whole Foods: A U.S. Perspective Charles Biggio, Sep 01, 2008 Whole Foods Impact on Unilateral Effects Now comes the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, reversing the district court’s denial of a preliminary injunction. There are many interesting aspects of the D.C. Circuit’s decision, including the FTC’s […]

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle William Baer, Deborah Feinstein, Sep 01, 2008 Last month’s Whole Foods decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit can be viewed from a variety of perspectives. Our focus in this commentary is how the decision is likely to reinforce […]

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle Kate Collyer, Andrew Taylor, Sep 01, 2008 On April 30, 2008, the UK Competition Commission published the final report of its two year investigation into the supply of groceries in the UK. This article gives a UK perspective on some of the issues […]

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle Jordi Gual, Sandra Jódar-Rosell, Sep 01, 2008 As in many other antitrust cases, the delineation of the relevant product market was the critical issue in the Whole Foods and Wild Oats merger. Setting the market boundaries containing the set of products in direct […]

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle Timothy Brennan, Sep 01, 2008 If email traffic over the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section “conversation” list is any indication, the recent 2-1 decision by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Court in FTC v. Whole Foods […]

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle William Bishop, Sep 01, 2008 The Whole Foods judgment in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit appears to have shocked many US antitrust commentators. Judge Kavanaugh, dissenting, expressed a view that has echoed through the advisory community, “In the end […]