Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, WORTH NOTING—Other Antitrust and Trade Regulation developments, (Feb 13, 2015)
Organizations Mentioned:American Antitrust Institute
A periodic roundup of other items of interest to the Antitrust and Trade Regulation community:
CONSUMER PROTECTION NEWS: U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D., Fla.), the ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, on February 12 announced subcommittee assignments for Democratic committee members for the 114th Congress. The ranking member of the consumer protection, product safety, insurance and data security subcommittee is Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.). The other Democratic members are Senators Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.), Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), Edward J. Markey (D., Mass.), Cory Booker (D., N.J.), and Tom Udall (D., N.M.). On February 2, U.S. Senator John Thune (R., S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, released the subcommittee assignments for Republican committee members. The chairman of the subcommittee is Sen. Jerry Moran (R., Kan.). The other Republican members are Senators Roy Blunt (R., Mo.), Ted Cruz (R., Texas), Deb Fischer (R., Neb.), Dean Heller (R., Nev.), Cory Gardner (R., Colo.), and Steve Daines (R., Mont.).
ANTITRUST NEWS: The Institute of Competition Law has extended the deadline for readers to cast their votes for the Antitrust Writing Awards 2015 until February 27. There are 10 categories and 20 awards, including General Antitrust: Eleanor Fox, Douglas Ginsburg, Roy Hoffinger, Richard Parker, Spencer Waller, Dan Sokol; Anticompetitive Practices: James Keyte, Einer Elhauge, Herbert Hovenkamp, Alec Burnside, Akiva Miller; Dominance: James Venit, Hans Zenger, Jonathan Jacobson, Nicolas Petit, Dan Rubinfeld; Mergers: François-Charles Laprévote, Mark Powell, George Cary, Charlotte Breuvart, Maurice Stucke; Intellectual Property: Janusz Ordover, Alison Jones, Carl Shapiro, James Killick, Martin Coleman; Private Enforcement: Michael Hausfeld, Robert Lande, Michael Osborne, Sebastian Peyer; Cross-Border Issues: John DeQ. Briggs, Beau Buffier, Jeremy Evans, Roxane Busey; Procedure: Flavio Laina, Kyriakos Fountoukakos, Chris Hockett, Thomas Barnet; Asian Antitrust: Ian Forrester, Nathan Bush, Fei Deng, Mel Marquis, James Modrall; and Economics: Ariel Ezrachi, Jonathan Baker, Jan Bouckaert, Leslie Marx, Elizabeth Wang. Winners will be announced at the Gala Dinner to be held in Washington DC on April 14 by Bill Kovacic.
ANTITRUST NEWS: In an article for Competition Policy International, American Antitrust Institute Associate General Counsel Randy Stutz analyzed the status of claims against international component-goods cartels after the Seventh Circuit’s decision in Motorola Mobility v. AU Optonics Corp. The article is entitled “The FTAIA in Flux: Foreign Component-Goods Cases Have Tripped, But Have They Fallen?”
News: Antitrust ConsumerProtection