Obama & McCain to Debate Antitrust … via surrogates
The Legal Times blog reports about the debate on September 24 at GW law school in DC:
Two local antitrust lawyers on different sides of the presidential election are getting ready to square off in a D.C. Bar debate. James Rill, a partner at Howrey, will address Sen. John McCain’s antitrust positions. William Kolasky, a partner with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, will do the same for Sen. Barack Obama.In McCain’s corner, Rill, a more than 40-year veteran of practicing antitrust, competition, and merger law, served as assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice. In Obama’s corner, Kolasky has served as the deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division from 2001 to 2002 and has published more than 40 articles on antitrust law.
Both lawyers will speak about how McCain and Obama would address a range of antitrust issues, including immunities and exemptions from antitrust enforcement, merger enforcement policies, and vertical restraints.
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September 8th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Which Candidate supports Senator Kohl’s Senate Bill S.2261 “Discount Pricing Consumer Protection Act” co-sponsored by Senator Clinton and Senator Biden. This bill will restore the “per se” treatment of vertical price fixing. The Wall Street Journal wrote on the front page (August 18, 2008 edition) that PRICE FIXING was making a comeback after this Supreme Court ruling (06-480 Leegin v PSKS,Inc). That ruling issued June 2007 reversed nearly 100 years of antitrust law banning manufacturers from FIXING THE PRICE OF PRODUCTS SOLD BY RETAILERS TO CONSUMERS. I would respectfully request that this subject is presented to Candidates antitrust policy representatives. The American Consumer deserves an answer to such an abrupt change in the antitrust law that impacts them right in the pocketbook (WSJ Article estimates a whopping 300 BILLION DOLLARS of annual Consumer inflation). The voters deserve an answer from both Candidates on this very important National Antitrust Policy. Thank you