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Benefits From Private Antitrust Enforcement: An Analysis Of Forty Cases, Robert H. Lande, Joshua P. Davis
Benefits From Private Antitrust Enforcement: An Analysis Of Forty Cases, Robert H. Lande, Joshua P. Davis
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The goal of this Report is to take a first step toward providing an empirical basis for assessing whether private enforcement of the antitrust laws is serving its intended purposes and is in the public interest. To do this the Report assembles, aggregates, and analyzes information about forty of the largest recent successful private antitrust cases. This information includes, inter alia, the amount of money each action recovered, what proportion of the money was recovered from foreign entities, whether the private litigation was preceded by government action, the attorneys' fees awarded to plaintiffs' counsel, on whose behalf money was recovered …
Benefits From Private Antitrust Enforcement: Forty Individual Case Studies, Robert H. Lande, Joshua P. Davis
Benefits From Private Antitrust Enforcement: Forty Individual Case Studies, Robert H. Lande, Joshua P. Davis
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This Paper presents information about forty of the largest recent successful private antitrust cases. To do this, the paper gathers information about each case, including, inter alia, (1) the amount of money each action recovered for the victims of each alleged antitrust violation, (2) what proportion of the money was recovered from foreign entities, (3) whether government action preceded the private litigation, (4) the attorney's fees awarded to plaintiffs' counsel, (5) on whose behalf money was recovered (direct purchasers, indirect purchasers, or a competitor), and (6) the kind of claim the plaintiffs asserted (rule of reason, per se, or a …