In this issue: We have two indisputable facts in this issue: The Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act is, to be kind, muddled. And modern court decisions on federal pleading standards…

Alicia Batts, Keith Butler, Nov 16, 2011 As global economic trade has increased, so has the number of price-fixing plaintiffs who have sought recovery in U.S. courts under U.S. antitrust…

Kent Bernard, Nov 16, 2011 The debate about whether the European Union should adopt a community-wide system to compensate victims of illegal cartel activityx has generated a lot of heat,…

Max Huffman, Nov 16, 2011 In September 2011, in Minn-Chem Inc. v. Agrium Inc., the Seventh Circuit concluded that allegations of price-fixing in foreign commerce, with effects on domestic U.S.…

Nov 16, 2011 Resources For NOV-11(1),  The “Potash” Case  Issue: For our reader’s convenience, when appropriate in the Antitrust Chronicle, we’ll be presenting copies and/or links of the cases and…

Erika Douglas, Mark Katz, Nov 16, 2011 This article provides a Canadian perspective on the recent decision of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (the “Seventh Circuit”) in Minn-Chem…

Chris Sagers, Nov 16, 2011 Pretty strong words have been bandied in the few years since Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly. Two leading procedure scholars recently wrote that Twombly, and…