Antitrust and Consumer Protection
Competition: Spring 2014, Vol. 23, No. 1
Content
- Chair's Column
- Do First Amendment Principles Limit the Antitrust Agencies' Ability To Prohibit Enforcement of Standards-essential Patents?
- Does the First Amendment Immunize Google's Search Engine Search Results From Government Antitrust Scrutiny?
- Editor's Note
- First Amendment Protection For Search Engine Search Results
- Judges Speak Out: the Make-or-break Moment of Certifying a Class With Judges Marsha Berzon, Virginia Phillips, John Wiley, and Curtis Karnow
- Landmark Civil Price-fixing Verdicts of 2013: Lessons From the Vitamin C and Urethanes Trials With Trial Counsel and Observers William a. Isaacson, Daniel S. Mason, Joseph Goldberg, and Michael Tubach
- Masthead
- Noerr-pennington: Safeguarding the First Amendment Right To Petition the Government
- Regulation of Companies' Data Security Practices Under the Ftc Act and California Unfair Competition Law
- The Irrelevance of the First Amendment To the Modern Regulation of the Internet
- The Market-participant Exception To State-action Immunity From Antitrust Liability
- The Misapplication of Matsushita's Heightened Summary Judgment Standard
- The Supreme Court In Borough of Duryea V. Guarnieri Signals a Retreat From Pre's Broad Deference To the Right To Petition
- Trial By Sample: a Post-game, Locker Room Chat Exploring the McAdams V. Monier Trial: a Roundtable With Trial Counsel Jeffrey Cereghino and William Stern
- Update On California State Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law and Federal and State Procedural Law
- Lcd Redux: Follow-on Class Action and Direct Purchaser Litigation From 2012'S Doj Criminal Prosecutions Views from Trial Experts Bruce Simon, Howard Varinsky, and Robert Freitas
LCD REDUX: FOLLOW-ON CLASS ACTION AND DIRECT PURCHASER LITIGATION FROM 2012’S DOJ CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS Views from Trial Experts Bruce Simon, Howard Varinsky, and Robert Freitas
Moderated by Aton Arbisser
Edited by Michael J. Kass
I. INTRODUCTION
Last year, the Competition journal published a Roundtable discussion of the 2012 eight-week criminal jury trial prosecuted by the San Francisco field office of the Antitrust Division of Department of Justice that resulted in AU Optronics Corporation and individuals being convicted for violating U.S. antitrust laws in connection with a world-wide price fixing scheme involving thin-film transistor liquid crystal display panels ("LCD"). The October 2013 Golden State Institute benefitted from an outstanding panel’s in-depth analysis of two subsequent trials against other alleged conspirators.