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Regulating Unfair Practices Under The Ftc Act: The Need For A Legal Standard Of Unfairness, Teresa M. Schwartz
Regulating Unfair Practices Under The Ftc Act: The Need For A Legal Standard Of Unfairness, Teresa M. Schwartz
Akron Law Review
This article will examine the Commission's past and proposed use of the unfairness theory to justify these trade regulation rules. It is the thesis of this article that the Commission has not defined adequately the parameters of the amorphous statutory term "unfair... acts or practices" nor analyzed the term sufficiently or consistently in its application to trade regulation rules. By purposefully leaving the unfairness theory vague, the Commission invites judicial reversals of its regulations and legislative limitations on its authority.
Saving The World, One Cadillac At A Time: What Can Be Done When A Religious Or Chartiable Organization Commits Solicitation Fraud?, Nicholas Barborak
Saving The World, One Cadillac At A Time: What Can Be Done When A Religious Or Chartiable Organization Commits Solicitation Fraud?, Nicholas Barborak
Akron Law Review
Recognizing that controversies involving religious and charitable organizations have puzzled the courts throughout this century, this paper will examine specific instances of religious and charitable fraud. It will discuss the potential remedies that are available by donors who fall victim to the perpetrators of this fraud. Finally this paper will suggest a more feasible method by which victims may recover than the conventional approaches.
Payment Methods For Consumer-To-Consumer Online Transactions, David E. Sorkin
Payment Methods For Consumer-To-Consumer Online Transactions, David E. Sorkin
Akron Law Review
Participants in online auctions use a variety of payment mechanisms, but checks and money orders still represent the most commonly used means of payment. Credit cards afford greater protection to buyers, but until recently payment by credit card was not even an option for person-to-person transactions. However, several online payment services have been established that enable individuals to make credit card payments to one another, generally with the payment service acting as an intermediary. These services are growing rapidly, mainly because of the speed and convenience that they offer. Yet relatively little attention has been paid to the risks and …
Antitrust Issues In The Litigation And Settlement Of Infringement Claims, Deborah A. Coleman
Antitrust Issues In The Litigation And Settlement Of Infringement Claims, Deborah A. Coleman
Akron Law Review
Although the owner of intellectual property rights is privileged to enforce those rights through litigation and to settle such litigation on satisfactory terms, infringement actions or case settlements can create liability for antitrust violations or unfair competition. Most importantly, an agreement in restraint of trade is not sheltered from antitrust scrutiny because it is made in the context of settling threatened or actual infringement litigation. That a patent confers a limited legal monopoly in a product, method or process is only one fact that is taken into account in evaluating whether the terms under which infringement litigation is settled unfairly …
Pole Position: National Cable & Telecommunications Ass'n V. Gulf Power Co. And The Implications Of The Fcc's Pole Attachments Act Reading Higher Ground, Darci Deltoro
Akron Law Review
Both high-speed Internet access via commingled cables and wireless communications are complex and cutting edge topics in today’s world of ever changing information technology. This Note examines how these issues were addressed recently in Nat’l Cable & Telecomms. Ass’n, Inc. v. Gulf Power Co. (Gulf Power). Part II of this Note provides a review of the Pole Attachments Act, focusing particularly on using the purpose behind the Act to establish the minimum and maximum limitations of its coverage. Part III discusses the factual and procedural history of the Gulf Power case, first addressing the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh …
Sui Generis'?: An Antitrust Analysis Of Buyer Power In The United States And European Union, Richard Scheelings, Joshua D. Wright
Sui Generis'?: An Antitrust Analysis Of Buyer Power In The United States And European Union, Richard Scheelings, Joshua D. Wright
Akron Law Review
The argument of this paper is simple: from an economic policy point of view, there is nothing special about market power on the buyer side of markets. In particular, we reject the contention that retail sector buying power requires different treatment from antitrust authorities compared to other sectors in the economy. Likewise, we find arguments contending that ‘buyer power’ requires that new or different laws be enacted or judicially developed ultimately unpersuasive. This paper is divided into three parts. Part I summarizes the relevant economics of buyer power, and more generally, monopsony. Part II compares the relevant antitrust treatment, in …