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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
On August 12, 2011, the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan issued its long-awaited opinion in the matter United States, et al. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan ,1denying Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's (BCBS) motion to dismiss in its entirety, mooting a request to stay discovery and granting the government's motion to...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
On September 24, 2010, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit and proposed settlement in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibiting six high-tech companies - Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp., Intuit Inc. and Pixar - from entering into "no solicitation" or "no cold call"...
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Monday, February 1, 2010
The trio of honest services fraud cases to be decided by the Supreme Court this term - U.S. v. Black , U.S. v. Skilling and U.S. v. Weyhrauch - have the potential to effect a major change in criminal enforcement policy at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice ("the Division"). The Division has increasingly used the honest services fraud...
