Updated: A class action by credit card holders over mandatory arbitration provisions imposed by credit card issuers can proceed to trial, a federal appeals court has ruled.
William Kovacic, a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission, has been named chairman of the agency. He will replace Deborah Platt Majoras, who is leaving to…
The U.S. Supreme court has turned down an appeal by Microsoft Corp. that seeks to halt a multibillion-dollar lawsuit contending it “deliberately targeted and destroyed” a competitor’s word-processing program to…
Antritrust sources are telling The Deal that Deborah Platt Majoras, chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, will join the legal department of Procter & Gamble.
Updated: An executive arm of the European Union has fined Microsoft Corp. a record $1.35 billion for failing to cooperate with a 2004 antitrust decision. It required the company to…
A lawsuit filed against four title insurance companies claims they colluded and paid illegal kickbacks to agents and brokers without disclosing the improper costs in state rate requests. But a…
A bevy of M&A lawyers will be at work on Microsoft’s proposed deal to buy Yahoo, but it’s the antitrust lawyers who will have a key role, Feb 11, 2008 5:54 PM CST
Nestle reportedly has axed its lead antitrust counsel in Europe after focusing during a review of its legal staffing there on the fact that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer also represented the…
David Boies, the Justice Department’s lead trial lawyer in its successful antitrust case against Microsoft, was among the guests at a party last week thrown by the…
Thomas Barr, a former lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore who represented IBM in its 13-year antitrust battle, died yesterday at his California home. He was 77.
In a case one blogger at Fortune notes is “rich in irony,” a San Diego lawyer has filed an antitrust suit against Apple, claiming it is illegally maintaining…
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