Sentences with phrase «to violate antitrust laws»

Each antitrust lawyer at our firm has experience representing companies accused of violating antitrust laws.

Brokers may be held liable if salespeople violate antitrust laws.

A real estate broker's ability to keep his firm from violating the antitrust laws is in direct proportion to his ability and willingness to educate his salespeople.

Groups representing booksellers and authors joined in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, December 2, to urge the court to review a lower court decision that found Apple violated antitrust law by conspiring to influence e-book pricing.

The court held that developers who set the sale price of lots in a subdivision, and who required a six percent sales commission, did not violate antitrust law where the land they owned was part of a joint venture and occupied a small portion of the relevant market.

The complaint alleges that Apple violated antitrust laws by colluding with publishers to keep e-book prices high.

«If Mylan engaged in anti-competitive business practices, or violated antitrust laws with the intent and effect of limiting lower cost competition, we will hold them accountable.»

The news comes same day as the European Union's decision to slap Qualcomm with a fine of $ 997 million or $ 1.2 billion for violating antitrust laws in its deals with Apple.

A California appellate court has considered whether association lawyers and their clients could be liable for violating the antitrust laws through discovery violations.

Later, District Judge Claudia Wilken found for O'Bannon stating that the NCAA's rules violate antitrust laws.

The court held that developers who set the sale price of lots in a subdivision, and who required a six percent sales commission, did not violate antitrust law where the land they owned was part of a joint venture and occupied...

In 2005, the NRF filed a lawsuit arguing Visa and MasterCard violated antitrust laws in the way they set these transaction fees.

Aubrey McClendon died one day after the U.S. Department of Justice indicted him for allegedly violating antitrust laws by colluding to rig bids for oil and gas acreage.

The hearing will come the day after West Virginia disclosed an investigation into whether Mylan violated antitrust laws or defrauded the state's Medicaid program.

The government argued during the trial that, if it were to own Time Warner, AT&T would violate antitrust law because the combined company could work to get higher prices out of pay - TV distributors by threatening to withhold Time Warner content, which includes networks CNN, HBO and TNT.

However, in October 2016 the UK Competition and Markets Authority said the acquisition violated antitrust laws, and that was reaffirmed by a UK appeals court in March 2017.

While MLS commissioner Doug Logan denied Clemetson's allegations, the league's handling of Caligiuri underlined flaws in the system, which in February prompted 10 players to file a class - action suit against MLS, claiming that the league's restraints on players violated antitrust laws.

But as cases of academic fraud and evidence of steering continue, it's becoming easier for those attacking the NCAA to point to substantive evidence that the NCAA does promote education enough to allow it to blatantly violate antitrust laws.

The federal appellate court in the case agreed with the lower court that Apple had indeed violated antitrust law by cooperating with publishers to establish agency pricing for e-books (which allows publishers to set their own prices and pay the retailer a commission).

We think it beyond question that a union may conclude a wage agreement with the multiemployer bargaining unit without violating the antitrust laws, and that it may, as a matter of its own policy, and not by agreement with all or part of the employers of that unit, seek the same wages from other employers.

Echoing the familiar story of David and Goliath, one Uber customer's lawsuit against the company's co-founder alleging the practice of raising prices during certain situations violates antitrust laws was a considered to be a long shot.

States to join feds in determining if Comcast's plan to buy Time Warner Cable violates antitrust law, Reuters

After being found guilty of violating antitrust laws by a US District Judge in 2013 and by an Appeals court in 2015, Apple's request for an appeal to the US Supreme Court was denied this past March, forcing it to settle with the plaintiffs.

For its part, HarperCollins said that it «did not violate any antitrust laws» and maintained that its «business terms and policies have been, and continue to be, designed to give readers the greatest choice of formats, features, value, platforms and partners — for both print and digital.»

«If Mylan engaged in anti-competitive business practices, or violated antitrust laws with the intent and effect of limiting lower cost competition, we will hold them accountable.

On Wednesday, July 10, a federal judge ruled that Apple violated antitrust laws by conspiring with five publishers to raise and fix e-book prices.

In 2005, the Department of Justice sued NAR, charging that our rules violated antitrust law.

Though Taubman pleaded not guilty, he was convicted for conspiracy to violate antitrust laws in his capacity as owner of the Sotheby's auction house on Dec. 5.

But in doing so, the U.S. Justice Department contends, Apple violated antitrust laws by colluding with the five largest book publishers — HarperCollins, the Penguin Group, the Hatchett Group, MacMillan, and Simon & Schuster — to fix the prices of electronic books.

Long before this development, critics have spoken a great deal about the Amazon and Whole Foods merger, with some saying it would violate antitrust laws, which are there to keep an open marketplace and prevent companies from restraining trade or monopolizing an industry.

Shkreli recently bought a majority stake in KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc. after Turing received a warning from the New York attorney general that the distribution network for Daraprim may violate antitrust laws.

Last month, Turing was warned by New York's attorney general that the distribution network for the rarely used drug may violate antitrust laws.

Turing Pharmaceuticals was warned by New York's attorney general that the distribution network for a rarely used drug, whose 55-fold overnight price hike drew widespread criticism, may violate antitrust laws.

But in the post-trial brief, AT&T and Time Warner said the government failed to prove the deal would violate antitrust law.

But with Google's strong lead in the search industry, analysts said it is highly unlikely Microsoft's proposed deal would violate antitrust laws.

It could have gone a lot worse, but the fact that they were ruled to have violated antitrust laws is a problem, especially for the future cases that they have to face now that this is all over.

«If Mylan engaged in anti-competitive business practices, or violated antitrust laws with the intent and effect of limiting lower cost competition, we will hold them accountable,» Schneiderman said.

A judge on Friday refused a request by Apple to temporarily suspend her ruling that it violated antitrust laws by conspiring with publishers to raise electronic book prices in 2010.

Hachette Livre said it «remains confident that it did not violate the antitrust laws, and has made no admission of liability,» but added that the «costs, length, and distractions of the proceedings before the European Commission would be too disruptive to its business and to the development of ebook markets in general».

Harpercollins responded to the settlement today by saying ««HarperCollins did not violate any antitrust laws and will comply with its obligations under the agreement,» HarperCollins said in a statement, noting that «After HarperCollins adopted the agency model in 2010, the e-book market exploded, giving consumers more choices of devices, formats and prices that would never have existed but for the agency model.

The complaint alleges that Apple violated antitrust laws by colluding with...

The US Department of Justice has urged an appeals court to uphold the verdict against Apple that found the fruity firm had violated antitrust laws and conspired with book publishers to fix the price of ebooks.

It called the DOJ's proposal a «draconian and punitive intrusion» and filed for appeal, maintaining that it didn't violate antitrust law.