In Europe, the relations between National States and the EU receive constant attention, but in the United States relations between state and federal antitrust authorities only seem to get noticed…

Elinor Hoffmann, Nov 19, 2012 Our federalist system and our belief in the social, political, and economic benefits of competition have spawned a multiplicity of antitrust enforcers. On the federal…

Mark Tobey, Nov 14, 2012 Under the leadership of former Assistant Attorney General (“AAG”) Christine Varney and Acting Assistant Attorneys General Sharis Pozen and Joseph Wayland, the U.S. Department of…

Kathleen Foote, Nov 14, 2012 Antitrust enforcers in the offices of state attorneys general frequently find ourselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to public perceptions…

James Donahue, III, Nov 14, 2012 The concept of a statute to temper or eradicate the market power of trusts and cartels of businesses that agreed not to compete against…

Stephen Houck, Nov 14, 2012 Most state antitrust enforcement actions are brought by a single state acting on its own rather than jointly with other states or the federal agencies.…

Robert Langer, Nov 14, 2012 In 1994, while still with the Connecticut Attorney General’s Office, I wrote a short essay that cautioned antitrust practitioners to beware of state antitrust enforcers…