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In This Issue: - A Modern Look at The Nine Patent Licensing ‘No-Nos’ (Part Two): The Last Five ‘No-Nos’ *United States - Supreme Court Holds That Class Certification Under Rule 23(b)(3) Is Inappropriate...more
In a closely watched decision, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court has reversed an 11th Circuit decision that invoked the state action doctrine to prevent the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from challenging a state hospital...more
This Daily Journal article analyzes the United States Supreme Court decision of Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc, which held that a state's grant of general corporate powers to government entities...more
Last week a unanimous Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated opinion in FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc., addressing the "State action" exemption from application of the federal antitrust laws for the first time...more
The U.S. Supreme Court on February 19th scaled back the "state action immunity" doctrine, siding with the Federal Trade Commission on an issue that had divided the lower courts and holding that a county Hospital Authority's...more
On February 19, 2013, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the effective acquisition of Palmyra Medical Center (“Palmyra”) by Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc. (“PPHS") in Southwestern Georgia was not immune from antitrust...more
What you need to know: The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision siding with the FTC against a hospital merger in Georgia. What you need to do: Companies should conduct careful analysis before investing...more
On February 19, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, found that a merger of two Georgia hospitals was not immune from federal antitrust laws under the "state-action" exemption, reversing a decision of the...more
In one of the most closely watched healthcare antitrust cases in years, the Supreme Court issued its decision in the FTC merger challenge to a Georgia hospital merger, Phoebe Putney Health System’s acquisition of Palmyra...more
The Supreme Court decision in FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc., makes clear that state action immunity from federal antitrust laws is disfavored, and local governmental, quasi-public and private entities can only...more
2012 was a busy year for Canadian competition litigation, as numerous cases were heard or decided. The Supreme Court of Canada heard three class proceedings cases involving the Competition Act and the Competition Tribunal had...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued final changes to agency procedure aimed at streamlining and updating the procedures for FTC investigations and clarifying the agency’s procedures for evaluating allegations of...more
In a recent ruling, reinforcing the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) aggressive merger policy, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a FTC decision condemning a merger of two could-be rivals, and...more
There is a general presumption that the grant of public access to documents relating to merger control proceedings would undermine the purpose of those proceedings. The Commission does not therefore have to carry out an...more
On June 25, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Federal Trade Commission's request to hear arguments in FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc., a highly anticipated hospital merger case which likely will clarify the...more
On June 25, the United States Supreme Court granted the Federal Trade Commission’s request that it review the 11th Circuit’s decision in Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health System. The case involves the FTC’s...more
Today, although it did not issue its much-anticipated ruling on the Obama Administration’s health care plan, the Supreme Court did agree to hear two antitrust cases during its next term (which starts in October)....more
In Kottaras v. Whole Foods Market, Inc. (D.D.C. Jan. 30, 2012), the court refused to certify a purported class of people who had bought premium, natural or organic products from Whole Foods in the Los Angeles area after Whole...more
Recently, the Supreme People’s Court of China issued final rules to build a working framework for civil anti-monopoly cases brought under the country’s Anti-Monopoly Law. The rules will take effect on 1 June 2012....more
In State ex rel. Van de Kamp v. Texaco, Inc., 46 Cal. 3d 1147 (1988), the California Supreme Court held that the Cartwright Act does not reach mergers and acquisitions. In Asahi Kasei Pharma Corp. v. CoTherix, Inc., No....more
Judge Koh refused to dismiss the bulk of an antitrust complaint Against Adobe Systems relating to its acquisition of FreeHand, a professional vector graphic illustration software. Although Adobe signed an FTC consent...more
Law360, New York (February 09, 2012, 6:45 PM ET) -- In the health care antitrust world, the Federal Trade Commission Evanston case, involving a retrospective attack on the consummated merger between Evanston...more
Our analysis of class actions, typically called collective actions in the international litigation context, continues with a brief review of Messner v. Northshore Univ. HealthSystem, No. 10-2514 (7th Cir....more
In the health care antitrust world, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Evanston case, involving a retrospective attack on the consummated merger between Evanston Northwestern and Highland Park hospitals, is an important...more
The following is a summary of key developments in EU Competition Law from the last year. Exploitative Abuses of a Dominant Position Although the application of Article 102 the Treaty on the Functioning of the...more
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