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Antitrust “Market Power” And Intellectual Property: Why FTC And DOJ Action Is Necessary
In 1989 and again in 1995, the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives considered legislation that would have prohibited courts in antitrust cases from drawing a presumption of a relevant market, or of the existence of market power, based merely on the possession of a patent or copyright.1 In...
Conglomerate Mergers And Range Effects: It’s A Long Way From Chicago To Brussels
In the 1960s, the United States experienced a wave of conglomerate mergers, driven in part by overly restrictive antitrust policies toward horizontal and vertical mergers. In response, the U.S. antitrust agencies and courts developed a number of theories of competitive harm with colorful names like deep pockets, reciprocal dealing, and...
DoJ Broadens Music Probe
This article summarizes about the music licensing on the internet. The US Department of Justice is digging deeper into the alleged anti-competitive licensing practices of the recording industry trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA, which led the legal crusade against music-swapping service, Napster. The antitrust division is...
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AMERICAN SYSTEMS Appoints James Kuiken to Lead Citizen Safety Strategic Business Area
AMERICAN SYSTEMS, a government and commercialIT solutions provider and one of the top 100 employee-owned companies inthe U.S., today announced the appointment of James A. Kuiken to theposition of vice president, Citizen Safety Strategic Business Area SBA.In this role, Kuiken will develop new business and reinforce AMERICANSYSTEMS' expertise in the...
European regulators OK Delta merger
Delta Air Lines Inc. on Wednesday won European regulatory approval to buy Northwest Airlines Corp. and form the world's largest carrier. Delta also set aside 3.5 percent of the new company's stock for management compensation. An additional 1.6 percent of equity will be earmarked for future executive...
Doubts remain as case against 'anthrax killer' is revealed
PROSECUTORS IN Washington have made public the first details of their case against the government scientist suspected of carrying out the 2001 anthrax attacks. But doubt still persisted about the FBI's handling of the affair - including even whether Bruce Ivins was in fact responsible for the attacks that killed...
11 charged in connection with hacking, identity theft
Eleven people, including a U.S. Secret Service informant, have been charged in connection with the hacking of nine major retailers and the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The data breach is believed to be...
Big questions are still unanswered
In the week since the government's top suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks committed suicide, a sometimes bizarre portrait of 62-year-old Army scientist Bruce Ivins has emerged. But while Ivins had access to the deadly toxin and his therapist's portrayal of him is haunting, there are a number of unanswered...
FBI to give details on anthrax case today
WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller today is scheduled to lay out the case against a government scientist the FBI believes committed the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and sickened 17 others, two Justice Department officials said. The director plans to address survivors of the attacks...
11 charged in TJX identity theft
Federal authorities think they may have their men in one of the biggest known cybercrimes ever. The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday said it charged 11 people in the theft of millions of credit and debit card numbers of customers for nine major U.S. retailers, including TJX, the...
US military jury gives split verdict in first Guantanamo trial
US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba AFP — Military jurors found Osama bin Laden's former driver Salim Hamdan not guilty Wednesday on terrorist conspiracy charges but convicted him on the lesser charge of providing material support to terrorism. The split verdict marked a dramatic conclusion of the...
Bin Laden's ex-driver found guilty on one terrorism charge
US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba AFP — Military jurors on Wednesday found Osama bin Laden's former driver guilty of providing material support to terrorism in the first US war crimes trial since World War II. But the jury found Salim Hamdan not guilty on a count...
Vulcan Announces Second Quarter Results
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE:VMC) today announced second quarter net sales of $966 million, as compared to $808 million in the second quarter of 2007. Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization EBITDA were $339 million in the second quarter of 2008, as compared to $281 million in...
US charges 11 in theft of 40 million credit, debit card numbers
WASHINGTON AFP — Eleven people have been indicted in Boston for stealing and selling some 40 million credit and debit card numbers they obtained by hacking into the computers of nine major US retailers, the US Justice Department said. In what the department believes is the largest hacking...
Ken Yormark and Peter A. Kyviakidis Join LECG as Managing Directors; Bring Extensive Experience in High Profile Investigations and Financial Consulting
LECG (NASDAQ: XPRT), aleading provider of independent expert testimony and strategic advisoryservices to companies around the world, announced today the addition of KenYormark, CPA, CFE, and Peter A. Kyviakidis, CPA in the New York office. Theaddition of these senior directors continues LECG's momentum in buildingits forensic accounting capabilities on the...
Survivor expresses doubts
Leroy Richmond survived the anthrax attacks of 2001. Richmond, 64, worked in the Washington, D.C., postal facility that processed mail for Congress, including an anthrax-tainted letter mailed to Tom Daschle, D-S.D., then the Senate's majority leader. Almost seven years later, Richmond reacted cautiously Sunday to the...
Records key to anthrax mystery
One of the nation's biggest unsolved mysteries could be resolved soon when the Justice Department discloses details of its investigation of a government scientist who committed suicide last week before he could be charged in the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001. The case against Bruce Ivins, who worked...
Leonard Pitts Jr: A question that speaks volumes
He may be a nerd, but he's ours
COMPUTER CRIME Hacker who hunted for UFOs is a wanted alien in his own right For two years Gary McKinnon, an unemployed Scotsman armed with only some spliffs, a few beers, and a dial-up internet connection, went looking for beings of super-ior intelligence. He couldn't...
Why civil service laws matter
Andrew Jackson, Ol' Hickory, would have liked the Justice Department under Alberto Gonzales. When he was president, Jackson argued forcefully for the idea that victorious politicians should have the power to appoint their own supporters to federal career jobs. Hiring people based on merit, he believed, would lead to an...
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