Skip Oliva of the Voluntary Trade Blog proposes the following list:

1. DOJ breaks promise not to indict Stolt-Nielsen. …
2. Rambus found guilty of misleading memory industry. …
3. Judge takes active role in telecom mergers. In July, U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan withheld his approval of two DOJ consent decrees that approved the SBC-AT&T and Verizon-MCI mergers, subject to certain antitrust conditions. Typically antitrust decrees are approved without comment from the courts, but Sullivan ordered additional briefing and hearings to consider the views of various parties opposed to the mergers, including New York Attorney General (and governor-elect) Eliot Spitzer. …
4. Realtor listings considered public property. …
5. FTC thwarted in campaign against patent settlements. [Schering-Plough] …
6. War on Terror opens antitrust front I. In February, a British court refused to block the extradition of retired businessman Ian Norris to the United States on criminal antitrust charges. …
7. Justices abandon patent-tying rule. [Independent Ink] …
8. War on Terror opens antitrust front II. In March, President Bush signed legislation re-authorizing the Patriot Act. Included were provisions allowing the DOJ and the FBI to obtain judicial wiretaps in criminal antitrust investigations. The antitrust wiretap language had previously been contained in stand-alone legislation, but House and Senate leaders chose to sneak the provisions into a last-minute conference on the Patriot Act to avoid any separate floor debate or votes.
9. Political storm may lead to new FTC powers. [Price gouging] …
10. DOJ muscles Indiana concrete industry. Throughout 2006, the DOJ prosecuted several Indiana-based concrete manufacturers for alleged “price fixing.” …

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