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Understanding The Solution For Microsoft, Ivo T. Gico

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

Nesse artigo, o autor examinou a solução do caso da Microsoft, tentando responder as seguintes perguntas: Seria a Microsoft responsável pelo monopólio do mercado de sistemas operacionais e pela vinculação ilegal no mercado de navegadores? Qual seria a solução menos drástica e intrusiva que poderia solucionar todas as acusações? Teria o Judiciário encontrado uma solução equilibrada para criar a competção sem destruir a Microsoft? Que abordagem seria melhor?

In this paper, the author examines the issue of relief in the Microsoft case, trying to answer the following questions: Is Microsoft liable for monopolization on the operating system market and illegal …

La Ley De Libre Competencia, Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba

Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba

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The Irrelevance Of Major League Baseball's Antitrust Exemption: A Historical Review, Mitchell J. Nathanson

Mitchell J Nathanson

This article examines Major League Baseball’s (MLB) antitrust exemption from a practical, historical perspective and concludes that it is largely irrelevant to the actual (as opposed to theoretical) workings of the business of baseball. This article focuses first on the exemption’s supposed protection of baseball’s “reserve clause” and finds that it was irrelevant to its creation in 1879 as well as its demise in 1975. Despite the exemption, the reserve clause has always been subject to challenge under contract law and it was a simple argument based on contract law principles that led to its eventual dismantling. This article then …

La Convivencia Entre El Derecho Concursal Y La Libre Competencia. El Caso Argentino, Carlos Molina Sandoval

Carlos Molina Sandoval

El presente trabajo tiene por objeto introducirse en ciertos de interrelación entre el derecho concursal y el régimen competivio, que han sido poco explorados, pero que requieren de una clara armonización de ambos regímenes.

The Empire Strikes Back: Nfl Cuts Clarett, Sacks Scheindlin, Adam Epstein

Adam Epstein

The article explores and the litigation history involving former Ohio State University running back Maurice Clarett and his challenge the the NFL draft-eligibility rule. Though Clarett was successful at the U.S. District Court level, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled differently, thereby preventing Clarett from being eligible for the 2004 NFL draft. Though he was drafted the next year (2005), an exploration of the differences between the trial court (Hon. Schendlin) and the appellate court (J. Sotomayor) opinions is quite interesting and relevant in the context of both antitrust and labor law, particularly the mandatory subjects of a collective …

Passivo Concorrencial: Comprando Um Problema, Ivo T. Gico

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

O presente artigo visa a analisar como a questão concorrencial pode afetar severamente a avaliação de ativos financeiros adquiridos, tendo como pano de fundo o caso da condenação do Sindipedras e outras 18 empresas do setor de mineração por formação de cartel, o primeiro caso de cartel efetivamente punido no Brasil.

This paper aims to examine how the competitive issue may severely affect the valuation of financial assets, having as background the case of the condemnation of Sindipedras and 18 mining industry companies for the cartels practice, the first cartel case effectively punished in Brazil.