Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, BLOG TRACKER—Noteworthy blog posts and other commentary, (Dec 10, 2015)

The week’s most insightful, intriguing, or entertaining blog posts regarding antitrust and trade regulation issues:

• Antitrust Today, “FTC Moves to Break Up Staples Office Depot Merger,” by Allison F. Sheedy

• Antitrust Law Source, “Private citizens leapfrog federal antitrust enforcers and seek to block merger of beer giants,” by Chris Yook

• Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog, “Price-Fixing Hits Home: An Empirical Study of U.S. Price Fixing Conspiracies,” by D. Daniel Sokol (University of Florida Levin College of Law)

• Proskauer on Advertising Law, “Follow Instructions For Use Carefully: NARB Affirms Clorox Advertisement Is Unsubstantiated,” by Alexander Kaplan and Tiffany Woo

• Franchise Law Update, “Bah Humbug: Third Circuit Significantly Expands Potential Class of Plaintiffs under the TCPA,” by John Gotaskie

• Truth on the Market, “Ignoring Decision Theory, the European Commission Continues to Waste Competition Enforcement Resources on Investigations of (Almost Certainly) Efficient Conduct,” by Alden Abbott

• Antitrust Update, “Fifth Circuit Considers Independent Conduct in Vertical Agreements to Facilitate Horizontal Conspiracy,” by Deirdre A. McEvoy and Amy N. Vegari

• The Wall Street Journal, “Antitrust Cops Put Brakes on Staples, GE Deals,” by Brent Kendall, Drew Fitzgerald, and Ted Mann

• EU & Competition Law, “Smartphone Chip Manufacturer Accused of an Abuse of Dominance,” by Robert Bell and Roman Madej

• The Wall Street Journal, “Merger of Dow, DuPont Likely to Get Close Antitrust Scrutiny,” by Jacob Bunge and Brent Kendall

• Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(B)log, “6th Circuit holds that targeted ads are commercial advertising or promotion,” by Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown University Law Center)

Have you seen (or written) a blog post that fits the bill? Send a note to ALD@wolterskluwer.com, with a link to the suggested post.

Attorneys: Robert Bell and Roman Madej (Bryan Cave LLP); John Gotaskie (Fox Rothschild LLP); Alexander Kaplan and Tiffany Woo (Proskauer Rose LLP); Deirdre A. McEvoy and Amy N. Vegari (Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP); Allison F. Sheedy (Constantine Cannon LLP); Chris Yook (Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP).

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