The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.
Quotes about antitrust (16 Quotes)
I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.
The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.
MasterCard strongly disagrees with the majority opinion issued yesterday by a panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the grant of class certification in the merchant antitrust action.
It seems Microsoft's cross examination has not been devastating, ... It's a mistake for Microsoft to say other people do what they're doing. First of all, the answer is, 'So what' Also, the fundamental premise of antitrust law is that there are different rules for behavior for a monopoly than for everyone else.
The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.
These are some of the most conservative judges in the country. Ginsburg, in particular, used to head the antitrust division under the Reagan administration, so to say that he is antitrust-savvy is an understatement the man knows antitrust law backwards and forwards.
The world of antitrust is reminiscent of Alices Wonderland everything seemingly is, yet apparently isnt, simultaneously. It is a world in which competition is lauded as the basic axiom and guiding principle, yet 'too much' competition is condemned as 'cutthroat.' It is a world in which actions designed to limit competition are branded as criminal when taken by businessmen, yet praised as 'enlightened' when initiated by the government. It is a world in which the law is so vague that businessmen have no way of knowing whether specific actions will be declared illegal until they hear the judges verdict after the fact.
Right now, the EC commission is more aggressive than either the Clinton administration or the Bush administration when it comes to antitrust issues.
A lot of the work these judges do, religion doesn't dictate the answer to it. Faith doesn't tell us what this antitrust statute means. It doesn't tell us how judges should go about interpreting antitrust action,
It's a tempting response to the problems baseball has right now. It feeds into anger and frustration that fans have about the potential of losing their teams, ... But I don't believe that taking away the antitrust exemption will solve this problem and it could make it worse. I don't see how triggering a antitrust litigation free-for-all... really solves anything.
The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.
As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
The chief defense PeopleSoft was hiding behind was the antitrust argument and that's been basically thrown out, ... I would hope at some point PeopleSoft's board would sense that it's incumbent on them to act on the behalf of shareholders.
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.