Antitrust Issues

The deal to sell United Technologies Corp.'s West Hartford pump and engine control unit to satisfy the antitrust concerns of regulators closed on Monday. UTC took on the business last year when it acquired Goodrich Corp. Triumph Group Inc. is...

Consumers don't ordinarily think of cable TV companies as friends of the little guy. But Cablevision, which won an extremely pro-consumer court ruling on digital video recording in 2008, is waging another legal battle that could be a boon to pay-TV...

VERMILLION - The South Dakota Law Review and the University of South Dakota School of Law will host the 2013 South Dakota Law Review Symposium on Friday, March 15, beginning at 10 a.m. with the first panel discussion in the USD Law School courtroom. A...

A federal judge has ruled that Apple's Chief Executive Tim Cook must testify in the U.S. government's e-books antitrust case against the company. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan granted the Department of Justice's request to order Cook to...

Online travel agency Priceline.com's $1.8 billion deal to acquire smaller rival Kayak Software Corp, which was expected to close this month, will be delayed due to a prolonged review by UK antitrust regulators. The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has...

"Two great airlines, one great future" was American Airlines' slogan as it walked the aisle with TWA a dozen years ago, heading into a future nowhere near as rosy as advertised. If that marriage truly had been something special in the air, American...

As expected, Maryland vigorously defended its right to move to the Big Ten without paying a $52 million exit fee to the Atlantic Coast Conference in two legal actions filed Friday. Maryland attorney general Doug Gansler filed a complaint in Prince...

Avery Dennison Corp. will sell two of its businesses for $500 million in cash to CCL Industries Inc., a Canadian maker of specialty packaging, the Pasadena-based company announced Wednesday. The sale comes three months after Minnesota-based 3M abandoned...

The world's biggest seed company never saw Vernon Hugh Bowman coming. It should have because, beginning in May, 1999, the self-described, 75-year-old “eccentric bachelor,” who farms 300 acres of corn, soybeans and rusting machinery near Sandborn, IN,...

 The world’s biggest seed company never saw Vernon Hugh Bowman coming.  It should have because, beginning in May 1999, the self-described, 75-year-old “eccentric bachelor,” who farms 300 acres of corn, soybeans and rusting machinery...

A recent New York Times headline whetted the proverbial whistle. “Justice Dept.'s Fight Against Modelo Brings in Familiar Face.” Modelo, the name of a lovely Mexican beer, drew me into a brief story that related how the company's outside counsel,...

 A recent New York Times headline whetted the proverbial whistle.  “Justice Dept.’s Fight Against Modelo Brings in Familiar Face.”  Modelo, the name of a lovely Mexican beer, drew me into a brief story that related how the company&...