Commentary Elsewhere: from writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page. From Competition Bulletin: The Court of Appeal on Cartels and Conflicts “The Court of Appeal handed down two important decisions last week on the application of conflict of law principles to cartel follow-on damages claims: Deutsche Bahn AG & Ors v Morgan Advanced Materials plc & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 1484 and Ryanair Limited v Esso Italiana Srl [2013] EWCA Civ 1450. The defendants in each case […]”
Commentary Elsewhere: from writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page. From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: The Empty Promise of Behavioral Antitrust “Alan Devlin (Latham) and Mike Jacobs (Depaul) describe The Empty Promise of Behavioral Antitrust. ABSTRACT: Microeconomic theory has long guided competition law. Using price- and game-theoretic models, antitrust has settled on rules that have endured because they are more coherent,…”
Commentary Elsewhere: from writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page. From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Resale Price Maintenance—The Blurred Lines “Christian Riis-Madsen & Ozlem Fidanboylu (O’Melveny & Myers) describe Resale Price Maintenance—The Blurred Lines. ABSTRACT: The 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Leegin set in motion a landslide by overturning a 96-year old precedent. After identifying that the probability of…”
Commentary Elsewhere: from writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page. From CPI RSS: Resale Price Maintenance and Most-Favored Nation Clauses: The Future Does Not Look Bright “ The European Commission’s 2010 Vertical Restraints Block Exemption Regulation and accompanying Guidelines on Vertical Restraints created a certain amount of excitement with the new approach towards resale price maintenance. However, for all of the discussion about the EC’s new, softer approach to RPM, little has come of it…The EC may not be saying much about RPMs and MFNs, but NCAs are quite vocal about the anticompetitive effects of such restraints on vertical relationships. “
