Sentences with phrase «violate antitrust»

That agreement could violate the antitrust laws.

Brokers may be held liable if salespeople violate antitrust laws.

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.

Brokers also need policies that prohibit salespeople who blog from making potentially libelous statements about other industry professionals or talking about commissions or business operations in ways that could violate antitrust or fair housing laws.

We have the resources and experience to prosecute any case, from complex technical patent cases to the world's most sophisticated financial frauds or conspiracies that violate the antitrust laws.

As top executives from competing newspapers met last week to consider such issues as whether to charge for online content, Editor & Publisher asks whether collective industry action would violate antitrust law.

I can't find it right now — my laptop with most of my research on it died before I could back the research up — but there are several posts by authors and publishing insiders who admit that Apple and the Publishing 5 may have colluded in such a way as to violate the antitrust laws.

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».

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.»

No activity or discussion at any Association meeting or other function may be engaged in for the purpose of bringing about any understanding or agreement among members that may violate or appear to violate the antitrust laws, including but not limited to raise, lower or stabilize prices; to regulate production; to allocate markets; to encourage boycotts; to foster unfair trade practices; to assist monopolization; or to in any way violate federal or state 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.

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

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.

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.

That defense ended when a federal judge in Washington, D.C. said the merger does violate antitrust rules.

«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 deal allows Apple to continue to appeal Cote's July 2013 ruling that Apple had violated antitrust laws by colluding with the publishers to drive up e-book prices and impede rivals such as Amazon.com Inc..

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.

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.

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.

Judge Wilken, and later three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, concluded that the NCAA and its nearly 1,300 members violated antitrust law by unlawfully conspiring to prevent players from negotiating the monetary value of their names, images and likenesses.

«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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In a surprise ruling, a New York district judge found Apple guilty of conspiring to raise the retail prices of e-books with publishers and violating antitrust and state laws.

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.

The US Authors Guild has met with officials from the Department of Justice to seek a government investigation into allegations that Amazon is violating antitrust... Read more

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.

International investigations into leading chocolatiers sparked several American lawsuits accusing the world's biggest chocolate companies of violating antitrust laws.

Federal judge says investors may pursue lawsuit accusing 12 major banks of violating antitrust law, Reuters

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

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

«Antitrust remedies usually direct firms that have violated antitrust laws to stop certain behavior or, less often, to implement particular fixes.

Already embroiled in several lawsuits with Apple, Qualcomm was fined $ 1.2 billion (997 million euros) today by the European Union for violating antitrust regulations.

Although managing brokers within a company can talk freely about how to enhance revenue, they risk violating antitrust law when those discussions leave company boundaries.

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

After the cases were filed, AHRN tried to turn the tables on the two MLSs, filing counterclaims alleging that the MLSs violated antitrust and other laws to drive the company out of business.

In its amended complaint, the DOJ says provisions in the new ILD policy that give brokers the ability to unilaterally withhold their listings from display on competitors» websites — known as a blanket opt - out — violates antitrust laws.

Next Generation sued both Iowa Realty, First Realty, and their corporate parent, claiming that such refusal to offer to share commissions on the sale of Iowa Realty and First Iowa listings violated the antitrust laws.

The court also rejected the argument that Iowa Realty violated antitrust laws as a monopolist by refusing to pay a cooperative fee to Next Generation or Homebuyer's salespeople, because there was insufficient evidence to support the argument that Iowa Realty had attempted to monopolize the market.

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.

Not exact matches

The statement continued: «The Commission has concerns that the companies involved may have violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit cartels and restrictive business practices.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company conspired with other dental supply companies to violate federal antitrust laws; (ii) discovery of the foregoing conduct would subject the Company to heightened regulatory scrutiny and potential criminal sanctions; and (iii) that as a result of the foregoing, Henry Schein's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Foxconn parent Hon Hai Precision Industry, Wistron, Compal Electronics and Pegatron alleged that Qualcomm violated two sections of the Sherman Act, a U.S. antitrust law.