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John W. Arden is the Executive Editorial Director for the CCH Trade Regulation group of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, a leading provider of research information and workflow solutions in antitrust and trade regulation, as well as other key specialty areas. He has written and edited legal publications for more than 25 years, focusing on the areas of antitrust, advertising, franchising and distribution law, and intellectual property.

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Magazine Publisher Boycott of Wholesaler

Posted on August 10, 2010
Magazine Publisher Boycott of Wholesaler Not PlausibleThis posting was written by Jefrey May, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.A defunct magazine wholesaler failed to plausibly allege a conspiracy to drive it out of business among national magazine publishers, distributors, and wholesalers, the federal district court in New York City has ruled...

Racing Body?s Single-Tire Rule,

Posted on August 09, 2010
Racing Body?s Single-Tire Rule, Exclusive Supply Contracts Not Antitrust ViolationsThis posting was written by Darius Sturmer, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.A supplier of racing tires and a motorsports sanctioning body did not violate federal antitrust law through the adoption of a so-called "single-tire rule" and entry into related exclusive supply contracts, the U...

Connecticut Barred from Disclosing

Posted on August 06, 2010
Connecticut Barred from Disclosing Information from Antitrust InvestigationThis posting was written by Jeffrey May, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.The Connecticut state attorney general?s office was barred from disclosing material and information gathered during an investigation of possible antitrust violations in the insurance industry, pursuant to a subpoena duces tecum and interrogatories, to persons outside of the office, the Connecticut Supreme Court has decided...

Intel Settlement Is Administration?s

Posted on August 05, 2010
Intel Settlement Is Administration?s Most Important Enforcement Victory: Antitrust GroupThis posting was written by John W. Arden.The Federal Trade Commission?s settlement of administrative charges of monopolization against Intel Corporation is ?the most important antitrust enforcement victory achieved so far by the Obama Administration,? according to Bert Foer, president of the American Antitrust Institute (AAI)...

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Intel Agrees to Settle FTC Allegations

Posted on August 04, 2010
Intel Agrees to Settle FTC Allegations of Anticompetitive Conduct This posting was written by Jeffrey May, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, joined by Commissioner Julie Brill and Bureau of Competition Director Richard Feinstein, announced today a proposed consent order to resolve the agency?s action against Intel Corporation for allegedly stifling competition in the markets for computer chips...

FTC Amends Telemarketing Sales

Posted on August 03, 2010
FTC Amends Telemarketing Sales Rule to Cover Debt Relief CompaniesThis posting was written by William Zale, Editor of CCH Advertising Law Guide.The FTC has amended the Telemarketing Sales Rule to apply to for-profit companies that sell debt relief services over the telephone, including credit counseling, debt settlement, and debt negotiation services that aim to reduce credit card or other unsecured debt...

FTC Addresses Consumer Privacy

Posted on July 30, 2010
FTC Addresses Consumer Privacy at Congressional HearingsThis posting was written by Cheryl Beise, Editor of CCH Guide to Computer Law.The Federal Trade Commission recently appeared before two congressional committees to testify about FTC efforts to protect consumer privacy...

Tobacco Firm Asks High Court to

Posted on July 29, 2010
Tobacco Firm Asks High Court to Reconsider Review of Extraterritorial Reach of RICOThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited (BATCo) has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for rehearing of its June 28 denial of certiorari in British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited v...

?Technical? Violation of Minnesota

Posted on July 28, 2010
?Technical? Violation of Minnesota Franchise Act Did Not Entitle Franchisee to Rescind AgreementThis posting was written by Pete Reap, Editor of CCH Business Franchise Guide.A cleaning business franchisor?s sale of a master franchise before its franchise registration was approved?but after its application for registration had been submitted?was a "technical" violation of the Minnesota Franchise Act that did not entitle the franchisee to rescind the franchise agreement in the absence of actual fraud, a federal district court in Minneapolis has decided...

House Oversight Committee Hears

Posted on July 27, 2010
House Oversight Committee Hears from Antitrust Agency HeadsThis posting was written by Jeffrey May, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.The heads of the federal antitrust agencies provided an update to members of the House Judiciary Committee's Courts and Competition Policy Subcommittee this morning on their agencies' enforcement priorities and recent actions...

Consumer Class Action for KFC?s

Posted on July 26, 2010
Consumer Class Action for KFC?s Refusal to Honor Coupons Can Proceed This posting was written by Jody Coultas, Editor of CCH State Unfair Trade Practices Law.KFC?s refusal to honor coupons offered on its website could constitute violation of the Illinois, Michigan, and California unfair trade practice laws, according to the federal district court in Chicago...

Chrysler Required to Reinstate

Posted on July 23, 2010
Chrysler Required to Reinstate Dealership Terminated in Network Reduction This posting was written by Pete Reap, Editor of CCH Business Franchise Guide.A balancing of the economic interests of a motor vehicle franchisor (Chrysler), a terminated dealer (Fury), and the public led to the conclusion that the Lake Elmo, Minnesota dealership should be reinstated to the Chrysler motor vehicle dealer network and have its franchise agreements renewed, as prescribed by Section 747 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010, an arbitrator has determined...

Baseball Rooftop Club Promoter

Posted on July 22, 2010
Baseball Rooftop Club Promoter Faces Suit Over Internet AdsThis posting was written by William Zale, Editor of CCH Advertising Law Guide.The proprietor of a ?rooftop club? for viewing Chicago Cubs baseball games (Wrigley Done Right) stated Lanham Act claims of false advertising and false designation of origin against a promoter of competing venues (Ivy League Club and Wrigley Rooftop Club), the federal district court in Chicago has ruled...

?Final Four? Ticket Distribution

Posted on July 21, 2010
?Final Four? Ticket Distribution Process Might Be Illegal LotteryThis posting was written by William Zale, Editor of CCH Advertising Law Guide.The National Collegiate Athletic Association and Ticketmaster could have conducted an illegal lottery by charging nonrefundable ?handling fees? to unsuccessful applicants for tickets to the 2009 NCAA men?s basketball ?Final Four? games, the U...

High Court Limits Scope of ?Honest

Posted on July 20, 2010
High Court Limits Scope of ?Honest Services Fraud,? Restricting Reach of RICOThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.The recent Supreme Court decision in Skilling v. United States restricted the definition of ?honest services fraud? to schemes involving bribery and kickbacks...

$295 Million Antitrust Class Action

Posted on July 19, 2010
$295 Million Antitrust Class Action Settlement with De Beers RejectedThis posting was written by Jeffrey May, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.The U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has rejected a $295 million settlement in antitrust class action lawsuits against the De Beers family of companies for anticompetitive practices in the markets for gem-quality diamonds...

Many Franchisors Fail to Report

Posted on July 16, 2010
Many Franchisors Fail to Report Franchisees' Sales to New York State Tax AuthorityThis posting was written by John W. Arden.Only 400 of the thousands of franchisors having franchisees within the State of New York have filed annual information returns with the New York Department of Tax and Finance as required by a 2009 statute, according to state officials speaking at a July 14 meeting of the New York State Bar Association Franchise Law Committee...

Public Interest Groups Urge FTC

Posted on July 15, 2010
Public Interest Groups Urge FTC to Create Comprehensive Privacy PlanThis posting was written by John W. Arden.Seventeen public interest and privacy groups sent a letter yesterday to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz, urging the FTC to ?draft a comprehensive plan that both details the deficiencies in Americans? privacy rights, and proposes comprehensive statutory and regulatory solutions to those problems...

No Errors Made in Trial of Dealer?s

Posted on July 13, 2010
No Errors Made in Trial of Dealer?s Antitrust Claims Against Manufacturer, Other DealersThis posting was written by Darius Sturmer, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.A federal district court committed no error in evidentiary rulings or jury instructions regarding the evidence of conspiracy in a trial of a truck dealer?s claims that a truck manufacturer had conspired with other dealers to restrain trade in violation of federal antitrust law, the U...

Ninth Circuit Asked to Rehear Appeal

Posted on July 12, 2010
Ninth Circuit Asked to Rehear Appeal of Antitrust State Action Immunity DecisionThis posting was written by John W. Arden.The American Antitrust Institute has filed an amicus brief, urging the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco to rehear the appeal of a decision ?that expands the state action defense to immunize alleged price fixing by car rental companies in California...

AOL Users May Seek Injunction Barring

Posted on July 09, 2010
AOL Users May Seek Injunction Barring Release of Internet Search RecordsThis posting was written by Thomas A. Long, Editor of CCH Privacy Law in Marketing.California consumers could proceed with claims under that state?s Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA) against Internet service provider AOL for unlawfully making public a database containing the Internet search records of more than 650,000 AOL members, the federal district court in Oakland has decided...

User Consent Needed for Online

Posted on July 08, 2010
User Consent Needed for Online Ad Tracking: EU Working PartyThis posting was written by Thomas A. Long, Editor of CCH Privacy Law in Marketing.Online behavioral advertising providers are required to obtain the informed consent of users before installing tracking devices, such as cookies, on their computers, under the terms of the European Union?s online privacy rules, according to the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party...

Tennis Tour?s Demotion of Event

Posted on July 06, 2010
Tennis Tour?s Demotion of Event Did Not Violate Federal Antitrust LawThis posting was written by Darius Sturmer, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.The Association of Tennis Professionals, a non-profit corporation that operates a worldwide tour of men?s professional tennis tournaments, did not violate federal antitrust law by downgrading an event in Hamburg, Germany, to a lesser status as part of a reorganization of the tour, the U...

Canadian Franchisees? Class Action

Posted on July 05, 2010
Canadian Franchisees? Class Action Against Quizno?s Allowed to Proceed This posting was written by Pete Reap, Editor of CCH Business Franchise Guide.Class certification under Canada?s Class Proceedings Act was appropriate for an action brought by two Canadian Quizno?s franchisees on behalf of a class of all Canadian Quizno?s franchisees for breach of contract, illegal price maintenance, and conspiracy to fix prices, according to the Ontario Court of Appeal...

Bill Aimed at Stopping Drug Company

Posted on July 02, 2010
Bill Aimed at Stopping Drug Company ?Pay-for-Delay? Patent Settlements Passes HouseThis posting was written by Jeffrey May, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.The House of Representatives yesterday passed legislation that would restrict the ability of drug companies to enter into pay-for-delay patent settlements...

Market Adequately Alleged in ATM

Posted on July 01, 2010
Market Adequately Alleged in ATM Network Price Fixing CaseThis posting was written by Jeffrey May, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.The federal district court in San Francisco has refused to dismiss antitrust claims against members of the Star ATM Network??the largest ATM Network in the United States??on the ground that complaining customers failed to allege a legally adequate ?relevant market...

Airport Commission Shielded from

Posted on June 29, 2010
Airport Commission Shielded from Tenant?s Monopoly ClaimsThis posting was written by Jeffrey May, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.A Massachusetts municipal airport commission and its officials were shielded from monopoly claims based on the airport commission?s restriction on jet fuel sales, the U...

Expanded Federal Trade Commission

Posted on June 28, 2010
Expanded Federal Trade Commission Authority Missing from Financial Reform BillThis posting was written by Jeffrey May, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.In coming to a consensus on a broad overhaul of financial regulation, House and Senate lawmakers decided on June 25 to exclude from the reform legislation provisions that would have expanded the authority to the Federal Trade Commission...

Twitter Agrees to Settle FTC Privacy

Posted on June 25, 2010
Twitter Agrees to Settle FTC Privacy and Security ChargesThis posting was written by Cheryl Beise, Editor of CCH Guide to Computer Law.Micro-blogging service Twitter has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it ?deceived consumers? about its privacy practices and failed to implement reasonable security measures to safeguard user information...

$12 Million Damage Award Sustained

Posted on June 24, 2010
$12 Million Damage Award Sustained in RICO Insurance Fraud SuitThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.Health care providers could not receive post-trial relief from a jury verdict that found them liable for RICO violations, the federal district court in Philadelphia has ruled...

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