Recently by Daniel B. Hodes
A Good Year For Antitrust Defendants
2007 will go down in the annals as nothing less than a historically pleasant year for antitrust defendants. The Supreme Court decided four antitrust cases between February and June, favoring the defendant in each and every instance. Major appellate courts - with one notable exception - ruled...
Read MoreFirst Circuit Rules That Antitrust Treble Damage Class Arbitration May Proceed, But Strikes Contractual Restrictions
In the latest of a number of decisions examining the allowable restrictions that may be placed upon private agreements to arbitrate antitrust disputes, the First Circuit has allowed claims on behalf of a class to be arbitrated - but has disallowed certain restrictions placed on the plaintiffs'...
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