Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Antitrust (1)
- Career positions (1)
- Cartels (1)
- Civil Rights Division (1)
- Civil Service Reform Act (1)
-
- DOJ (1)
- Employment law (1)
- First Amendment (1)
- Fourteenth Amendment (1)
- Government attorneys (1)
- Government lawyers (1)
- IBR (1)
- Illinois Brick Repealers (1)
- Partisanship (1)
- Political affiliation (1)
- Political positions (1)
- Politically motivated dismissals (1)
- Purchaser (1)
- State (1)
- U.S. Department of Justice (1)
- Violations (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Law
New Options For State Indirect Purchaser Legislation: Protecting The Real Victims Of Antitrust Violations, Robert H. Lande
New Options For State Indirect Purchaser Legislation: Protecting The Real Victims Of Antitrust Violations, Robert H. Lande
All Faculty Scholarship
In Illinois Brick v. Illinois Co., the Supreme Court held that, under federal antitrust law, only direct purchasers have standing to sue antitrust violators for damages. Since most products travel through one or more intermediaries before reaching consumers, this decision left most true victims of illegal cartels and other antitrust violations without a remedy to compensate them. Illinois Brick Co. also had the effect of undermining the objective of optimal deterrence of antitrust violations-because direct purchasers often have a suboptimal incentive to sue, the Court's decision often allows violators to escape paying significant damages. For this reason firms are insufficiently …
Office Politics: Hiring And Firing Government Lawyers, Gilda R. Daniels
Office Politics: Hiring And Firing Government Lawyers, Gilda R. Daniels
All Faculty Scholarship
In September of 2009, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it would not prosecute former DOJ Civil Rights Division official Bradley Schlozman for alleged false statements made during his congressional testimony about personnel actions at DOJ. As many government lawyers will remember, a July 2, 2008, report of the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility and Office of the Inspector General (hereinafter, the IG's report) found that Schlozman had violated the Civil Service Reform Act when he "considered political and ideological affiliations in hiring career attorneys and other personnel actions affecting career attorneys in the Civil Rights Division." Often …