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Direct Broadcast Satellite Service And Competition In The Multichannel Video Distribution Market: Hearing Before The H. Comm. On The Judiciary, 107th Cong., Dec. 4, 2001 (Statement Of Robert Pitofsky, Prof. Of Law, Geo. U. L. Center), Robert Pitofsky
Testimony Before Congress
No abstract provided.
Why Are We So Reluctant To "Execute" Microsoft?, Robert H. Lande
Why Are We So Reluctant To "Execute" Microsoft?, Robert H. Lande
All Faculty Scholarship
On June 28, 2001, the D.C. Court of Appeals held that Microsoft has violated the antitrust laws repeatedly, relentlessly, and over a multi-year period. The court ruled eight separate times that Microsoft engaged in conduct that illegally maintained its monopoly in PC operating systems. Despite these strongly worded conclusions concerning Microsoft’s liability, the court was extremely cautious when it considered whether to break up the company. It held that divestiture was a “radical” remedy that should be imposed with “great caution.”
The Perfect Caper?: Private Damages And The Microsoft Case, Robert H. Lande, James Langenfeld
The Perfect Caper?: Private Damages And The Microsoft Case, Robert H. Lande, James Langenfeld
All Faculty Scholarship
As readers of crime novels know, there are many definitions of the perfect caper. Under most, the perpetrator gets to keep its ill-gotten gains and goes unpunished. Even if the perpetrator is arrested and brought to trial, he or she still typically escapes punishment completely due to a variety of unusual circumstances. This is essentially what Professors John E. Lopatka and William H. Page are arguing about Microsoft's actions. They assert that even though Microsoft has violated the antitrust laws, it will not be made to pay for its anticompetitive conduct, at least not by private plaintiffs.
Consumer Choice As The Ultimate Goal Of Antitrust, Robert H. Lande
Consumer Choice As The Ultimate Goal Of Antitrust, Robert H. Lande
All Faculty Scholarship
The mission of the antitrust laws need to be clarified, and this article asserts that the best way to do this is to interpret and enforce these laws in terms of consumer choice. This reformulation is necessary due to uncertainty and instability that exists in the field. This article will 1. define the consumer choice approach to antitrust or competition law and show how it differs from other approaches; 2. show that the antitrust statutes and theories of violation embody a concern for optimal levels of consumer choice; 3. show that the antitrust case law embodies a concern for optimal …
Don't Disintegrate Microsoft (Yet), Alan J. Meese
Don't Disintegrate Microsoft (Yet), Alan J. Meese
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Aggregation, Auctions, And Other Developments In The Selection Of Lead Counsel Under The Pslra, Jill E. Fisch
Aggregation, Auctions, And Other Developments In The Selection Of Lead Counsel Under The Pslra, Jill E. Fisch
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Internet Regulation And Consumer Welfare: Innovation, Speculation, And Cable Bundling, John E. Lopatka, William H. Page
Internet Regulation And Consumer Welfare: Innovation, Speculation, And Cable Bundling, John E. Lopatka, William H. Page
UF Law Faculty Publications
The goal of telecommunications policy has shifted from the control of natural monopoly to the promotion of competition. But the question remains how extensive and persistent the government's regulatory role should be in the operation of communications markets. One might think that regulators could find the answer to this question in antitrust law. But antitrust has itself been torn between interventionist and laissez-faire tendencies. Over the past two decades, the dominant Chicago School approach to antitrust has focused on economic efficiency, a standard that has led to the abandonment or contraction of some categories of liability. More recently, however, post-Chicago …
Devising A Microsoft Remedy That Serves Consumers, John E. Lopatka, William H. Page
Devising A Microsoft Remedy That Serves Consumers, John E. Lopatka, William H. Page
UF Law Faculty Publications
According to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, Microsoft was a “predacious” monopolizer that did extensive “violence . . . to the competitive process.” Through a “single, well-coordinated course” of anticompetitive action, it suppressed competition from Netscape's Navigator, an Internet browser, and from Sun's Java programming language and related technologies. Microsoft “mounted a deliberate assault upon entrepreneurial efforts, . . . placed an oppressive thumb on the scale of competitive fortune, . . . and trammeled the competitive process.” Having colorfully concluded that Microsoft's offenses were extreme, Judge Jackson deferred to the government's demand for a drastic remedy. He ordered that Microsoft …
Free Trade Deals: Is The U.S. Losing Ground As Its Trading Partners Move Ahead: Hearing Before The H. Subcomm. On Trade Of The H. Comm. On Ways And Means, 107th Cong., Mar. 29, 2001 (Statement Of Daniel K. Tarullo, Prof. Of Law, Geo. U. L. Center), Daniel K. Tarullo
Testimony Before Congress
No abstract provided.
Monopolization, Innovation, And Consumer Welfare, John E. Lopatka, William H. Page
Monopolization, Innovation, And Consumer Welfare, John E. Lopatka, William H. Page
UF Law Faculty Publications
While most commentators and the enforcement agencies voice support for the consumer welfare standard, substantial disagreement exists over when economic theory justifies a presumption of consumer injury. Virtually all would subscribe to the theoretical prediction that an effective cartel will likely inflict consumer injury by reducing output and thus increasing prices. But the academic and judicial consensus disappears when the theory at issue predicts that a practice -- a merger or a predatory pricing campaign, for example -- will harm consumers in the future through some complex sequence of events.
In our view, the desire to protect innovation is legitimate, …
Antitrust And The Information Age: Section 2 Monopolization Analyses In The New Economy, A. Benjamin Spencer
Antitrust And The Information Age: Section 2 Monopolization Analyses In The New Economy, A. Benjamin Spencer
Faculty Publications
On April 3, 2000, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared that the Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") had maintained monopoly power in the personal computer operating system market by anticompetitive means, in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. A case of enormous significance, Microsoft raises difficult questions regarding how antitrust laws should be applied to information technology ("IT') companies. Specifically, many characteristics of what has come to be called the "New Economy" - and of the IT companies within it - suggest that traditional monopolization analysis may need modification. As the U.S. has moved toward an information- based …
The Ftc's Procedural Advantage In Discovering Concerted Action, William H. Page
The Ftc's Procedural Advantage In Discovering Concerted Action, William H. Page
UF Law Faculty Publications
Scholars have long argued that Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act can or should be interpreted to reach more conduct than Section 1 of Sherman Act - whether, in other words, there are gaps in the coverage of Section 1 that allow certain forms of anticompetitive conduct that Section 5 should condemn. Perhaps the most important issue in the interpretation of Section 1 concerns how courts should distinguish conscious parallelism from unlawful concerted action. In this paper, I argue that there is no substantive gap between the two antitrust statutes on this issue-both statutes prohibit (and permit) the …
International Decision: Waste Management, Inc. V. Mexico, William S. Dodge
International Decision: Waste Management, Inc. V. Mexico, William S. Dodge
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Book Review, G.B. Doern & S. Wilks Eds., Comparative Competition Policy: National Institutions In A Global Market (1996), David J. Gerber
Book Review, G.B. Doern & S. Wilks Eds., Comparative Competition Policy: National Institutions In A Global Market (1996), David J. Gerber
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Modernizing European Competition Law: A Developmental Perspective, David J. Gerber
Modernizing European Competition Law: A Developmental Perspective, David J. Gerber
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Sculpting The Agenda Of Comparative Law: Ernst Rabel And The Façade Of Language, David J. Gerber
Sculpting The Agenda Of Comparative Law: Ernst Rabel And The Façade Of Language, David J. Gerber
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Symposium: Antitrust At The Millennium (Part Ii), Jonathan Baker
Symposium: Antitrust At The Millennium (Part Ii), Jonathan Baker
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This issue features Part II of the Antitrust Law Journal's Symposium on Antitrust at the Millennium. As with Part I, which appeared in Volume 68, Issue 1 (2000), most Symposium authors use a decision or other significant text from antitrust's past as a springboard to discuss some aspect of antitrust's future. This group of Symposium essays is being published in the wake of a U.S. election that has shifted control of the Executive Branch of the federal government from Democrats to Republicans. Yet the broad themes and challenges pursed by Symposium authors are likely to remain central to antitrust regardless …
New Horizons In Cartel Detection, Jonathan Baker
New Horizons In Cartel Detection, Jonathan Baker
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
The Antitrust Conversation, Stephen Calkins
The Antitrust Conversation, Stephen Calkins
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Judicial Comments On Pending Cases: The Ethical Restrictions And The Sanctions – A Case Study Of The Microsoft Litigation, Ronald D. Rotunda
Judicial Comments On Pending Cases: The Ethical Restrictions And The Sanctions – A Case Study Of The Microsoft Litigation, Ronald D. Rotunda
Law Faculty Articles and Research
No abstract provided.
The Dynamics Of Daubert: Methodology, Conclusions, And Fit In Statistical And Econometric Studies, David H. Kaye
The Dynamics Of Daubert: Methodology, Conclusions, And Fit In Statistical And Econometric Studies, David H. Kaye
Journal Articles
This paper reviews the development of the law governing the admissibility of statistical studies. It analyzes the leading cases on scientific evidence and suggests that both the "reliability" and the "general acceptance" standards raise two major difficulties - the "boundary problem" of identifying the type of evidence that warrants careful screening and the "usurpation problem" of keeping the trial judge from closing the gate on evidence that should be left for the jury to assess.
The paper proposes partial solutions to these problems, and it applies them to statistical and econometric proof, particularly in the context of a recent antitrust …
Antitrust And The Information Age: Section 2 Monopolization Analyses In The New Economy, A. Benjamin Spencer
Antitrust And The Information Age: Section 2 Monopolization Analyses In The New Economy, A. Benjamin Spencer
Scholarly Articles
None available.
Antitrust As Consumer Choice: Comments On The New Paradigm, Spencer Weber Waller
Antitrust As Consumer Choice: Comments On The New Paradigm, Spencer Weber Waller
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
The Language Of Law And The Language Of Business, Spencer Weber Waller
The Language Of Law And The Language Of Business, Spencer Weber Waller
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
Should Concentration Be Dropped From The Merger Guidelines?, Jonathan Baker, Steven Salop
Should Concentration Be Dropped From The Merger Guidelines?, Jonathan Baker, Steven Salop
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
As members of the ABA Antitrust Section's Task Force on Fundamental Theory, we are pleased to provide a briefdiscussion of the appropriate role of market concentration in the review of mergers under the antitrust laws. Thispaper, organized in four main parts, will offer some suggestions for revising the Department of Justice and FederalTrade Commission Horizontal Merger Guidelines. A final section of this work will analyze whether it would bepreferable to conduct merger analysis by applying Professor Michael E. Porter's business strategy framework ratherthan the Merger Guidelines.
Beyond Eco-Imperialism: An Environmental Justice Critique Of Free Trade, Carmen G. Gonzalez
Beyond Eco-Imperialism: An Environmental Justice Critique Of Free Trade, Carmen G. Gonzalez
Faculty Articles
The article contributes to the trade and environment literature by assessing the claim that industrialized country proposals to integrate environmental protection into the WTO trade regime constitute environmental imperialism - the imposition of industrialized country values and preferences on less powerful nations. This claim is usually based on two distinct premises. The first is that environmental protection is a luxury that poor countries can ill afford. The second is that wealthy countries have played a leadership role in the protection of the global environment. The article questions these assumptions. It argues that environmental protection is essential to well-being of the …
The Stealth Assault On Antitrust Enforcement: Raising The Barriers For Antitrust Injury And Standing, Joseph P. Bauer
The Stealth Assault On Antitrust Enforcement: Raising The Barriers For Antitrust Injury And Standing, Joseph P. Bauer
Journal Articles
The first Annual Conference sponsored by the American Antitrust Institute featured a number of prominent speakers and explored a number of important issues. The Conference had two principal focuses: substantive questions of antitrust liability and the future direction of public enforcement of the antitrust laws by the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and by the Federal Trade Commission. However, an issue of at least equal importance was barely discussed, although it has seriously affected the scope and direction of the antitrust laws. That issue: Private enforcement of the antitrust laws, and the significant undermining of those efforts by a number …
Resurrecting Incipiency: From Von's Grocery To Consumer Choice, Robert H. Lande
Resurrecting Incipiency: From Von's Grocery To Consumer Choice, Robert H. Lande
All Faculty Scholarship
The merger incipiency doctrine is virtually ignored in the courts today. This article argues that it should be resurrected, and it also explores the ways that effectuating Congressional intent in the area would reinvigorate merger policy.
The article documents how the legislative history of the antimerger statutes shows that Congress intended mergers to be evaluated under an incipiency approach, and explores the possible meanings of this idea. It then shows that this is a strong basis for reviving significantly stricter or more prophylactic merger enforcement.
The article shows how there are aspects of the doctrine that could be revived without …
Who Suffered Antitrust Injury In The Microsoft Case?, John E. Lopatka, William H. Page
Who Suffered Antitrust Injury In The Microsoft Case?, John E. Lopatka, William H. Page
UF Law Faculty Publications
Most of the popular and scholarly discussions of Microsoft have focused on whether the defendant violated the law and, if so, whether the remedial order was appropriate. Never far from the surface in all of these discussions, however, has been the prospect of private antitrust suits that would inevitably follow a government victory. Indeed, numerous consumer class actions were filed against Microsoft in the wake of the District Court's issuance of its findings of fact. Should the District Court's decisions on liability stand, Microsoft can expect to face other suits by a variety of actors, including competitors, original equipment manufacturers …
The Private Attorney General In A Global Age: Public Interests In Private International Antitrust Litigation, Hannah Buxbaum
The Private Attorney General In A Global Age: Public Interests In Private International Antitrust Litigation, Hannah Buxbaum
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Even in a climate of increased cooperation among regulatory authorities, jurisdictional conflict remains a prominent aspect of cross-border antitrust regulation. Much of this conflict is generated by private litigation - that is, lawsuits initiated under U.S. antitrust law by private attorneys general rather than by the government. This article examines two strands of jurisprudence relevant to the role of the private attorney general in cases with international aspects. First, it analyzes the cases, involving actions based on statutory violations of the antitrust laws, in which the extraterritorial reach of U.S. antitrust law has been delimited. It then turns to decisions …