Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued an opinion in Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano. The case involved Matrixx’s lack of disclosure of reports that its Zicam nasal spray produ...
In a much-anticipated decision issued last night in Air Products v. Airgas, Chancellor Chandler declined to compel the board of directors of Airgas, Inc. to redeem the Company’s poison ...
On the eve of the shareholder vote to approve the $5.3 billion leveraged buyout of Del Monte Foods, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery last night issued a pre...
The federal antitrust regulators, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) continue to focus their enforcement efforts ...
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) yesterday fined John C. Malone, CEO and Chairman of Discovery Holding Company (“Discovery”), $1.4 million to settle allegations that he violat...
Christine A. Varney, the Assistant Attorney General who serves as the head of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), announced yesterday that the DOJ plans to pu...
We report three significant developments in antitrust law which have occurred since our last update in late April. As described below, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently ch...
There have been two significant antitrust law developments since our last update on March 13, 2006: a settlement of an action for alleged pre-merger “gun-jumping” activity, and a sett...
There have been a number of significant U.S. antitrust law developments already in 2006, including three important decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and an initiative by the Federal Tra...
