Antitrust and Consumer Protection
Competition: Spring 2015, Vol. 24, No. 1
Content
- Chair's Column
- Editor's Note
- How Viable Is the Prospect of Enforcement of Privacy Rights In the Age of Big Data? An Overview of Trends and Developments In Consumer Privacy Class Actions
- Keynote Address: a Conversation With the Honorable Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, Justice of the California Supreme Court
- Major League Baseball Is Exempt From the Antitrust Laws - Like It or Not: the "Unrealistic," "Inconsistent," and "Illogical" Antitrust Exemption For Baseball That Just Won't Go Away.
- Masthead
- Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide: In the Age of Big Data Is Data Security Possible and Can the Enforcement Agencies and Private Litigation Ensure Your Online Information Remains Safe and Private? a Roundtable
- Restoring Balance In the Test For Exclusionary Conduct
- St. Alphonsus Medical Center-nampa and Ftc V St. Luke's Health System Ltd.: a Panel Discussion On This Big Stakes Trial
- St. Alphonsus Medical Center - Nampa, Inc., Et Al. and Federal Trade Commission, Et Al. V St. Luke's Health System, Ltd., and Saltzer Medical Group, P.a.: a Physicians' Practice Group Merger's Journey Through Salutary Health-related Goals, Irreparable Harm, Self-inflicted Wounds, and the Remedy of Divestiture
- The Baseball Exemption: An Anomaly Whose Time Has Run
- The Continuing Violations Doctrine: Limitation In Name Only, or a Resuscitation of the Clayton Act's Statute of Limitations?
- The Doctor Is In, But Your Medical Information Is Out Trends In California Privacy Cases Relating To Release of Medical Information
- The State of Data-breach Litigation and Enforcement: Before the 2013 Mega Breaches and Beyond
- The United States V. Bazaarvoice Merger Trial: a Panel Discussion Including Insights From Trial Counsel
- United States V. Bazaarvoice: the Role of Customer Testimony In Clayton Act Merger Challenges
- California Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law and Federal and State Procedural Law Developments
CALIFORNIA ANTITRUST AND UNFAIR COMPETITION LAW AND FEDERAL AND STATE PROCEDURAL LAW DEVELOPMENTS
By Thomas Greene and Thomas A. Papageorge1
I. INTRODUCTION
This article provides a selection of litigation developments that may be of particular importance to members of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Section. The first part of this article presents cases that reflect recent California substantive law developments related to the Cartwright Act, covenants not to compete, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, the Unfair Competition Law, and false advertising law. The second part of this article provides federal and California procedural law developments in the areas of forum, the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act, discovery, class actions, evidence, settlements, appeals, patent law, ethics, and developments abroad. This latter part also provides a selection of relevant new rules and other notable developments. Please consult other references for all of the developments that may be important to your practice.