By stepping back from the overambitious antitrust agenda currently applied to joint ventures, the courts can create the clarity needed to allow joint ventures to fulfill the promise recognized in Copperweldâ€â€Ã¢â‚¬Å“increasing a firm’s efficiency and...

In October, a group of academics filed a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant the petition for certiorari in <i>Pacific Bell v. linkLine</i>. In and of itself, this is not surprising. But the coalition of academics is uncommonly broad and the tone of the brief is quite strident. Although their...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice have pushed an antitrust enforcement agenda designed to reform the industry. In 2005, the DOJ’s Antitrust Division sued the National Association of Realtors. The FTC followed suit in 2006 by issuing a series of...