Antitrust News
- FTC head Deborah Majoras predicts that Congress will pass gas-price-gouging legislation despite the FTC’s recommendation against such a law.
- The Antitrust Modernization Commission recommend that DOJ and the FTC have “final say over a merger’s competitive impact.“
- Finally, the Connecticut Attorney General “has launched an investigation into whether the Infectious Diseases Society of America has violated antitrust laws in setting new guidelines for diagnosing and treating Lyme disease.”
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November 21st, 2006 at 5:52 pm
[...] This information may be too late for Daniel Wallace (see our prior post). But, shlep wants to help the nonlawyer understand antitrust law, so that decisions about suing (or seeking legal assistance) will be better-informed and, more generally, so that members of the public can better evaluate the action (or inaction) of prosecutors and private litigants. Last week’s news that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has opened an investigation into ”whether the Infectious Diseases Society of America has violated antitrust laws in setting new guidelines for diagnosing and treating Lyme disease” (Hartford Courant, Nov. 17, 2006; via Antitrust Review), suggests both that antitrust will often be clumsily used as a political panacea and that even prosectors should be brushing up on antitrust basics. [...]