Category Archives: Antitrust

Officers of Same Company Cannot Conspire for Antitrust Purposes

By Jeffrey V. Mehalic on December 24, 2009 Posted in Antitrust

One of the more interesting decisions — at least to me — issued by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia during its last term is Princeton Ins. Agency, Inc. v. Erie Ins. Co., 2009 WL 4020269 (W.Va. 2009), which involved an insurance company’s Continue Reading

ADM Alleges Antitrust Violations by CSX, Other Railroads

By Jeffrey V. Mehalic on April 1, 2008 Posted in Antitrust

In addition to Paul Ratchford’s lawsuit claiming that he was forced out of his job as president of The Greenbrier, CSX Transportation, Inc. is also defending an action filed on March 25, 2008 by Archer Daniels Midland Company, which alleges that CSX and four other railroads violated Continue Reading

Fourth Circuit Says Novell’s Antitrust Action Against Microsoft Can Proceed

By Jeffrey V. Mehalic on October 17, 2007 Posted in Antitrust

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Novell has standing to pursue two antitrust claims against Microsoft. Novell, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 2007 WL 2984372 (October 15, 2007). Novell, which manufactured WordPerfect and Quattro Pro until 1996, claimed that Microsoft required original equipment manufacturers to pre-install its Continue Reading

Is the DOJ Trying to Punish the Charleston Gazette?

By Jeffrey V. Mehalic on June 4, 2007 Posted in Antitrust

Daily Kos, perhaps the best known of the liberal blogs, offers a political perspective on the reason the Department of Justice has challenged the Charleston Gazette‘s 2004 purchase of the Daily Mail: "Of all the media mergers that have happened over the last six years, the Continue Reading

DOJ Sues to Reverse Newspapers Merger

By Jeffrey V. Mehalic on May 23, 2007 Posted in Antitrust, Corporations, Litigation, Public Policy

In 2004, the Daily Gazette Company, publisher of the Charleston Gazette (the morning newspaper), purchased the Daily Mail (the afternoon newspaper), from MediaNews Group, Inc. Yesterday, the United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Daily Gazette Company and MediaNews Group, Inc., seeking to overturn the Continue Reading

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