Antitrust and Consumer Protection
Competition: Spring 2020, Vol 30, No. 1
Content
- An Economic Treatment of Pass Through In Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Litigation
- California and Federal Antitrust Law Update: Procedural Developments
- California Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Update: Substantive Law
- Chair's Column
- Editor's Note
- Fireside Chat With U.S. Doj Antitrust Division Chief of Technology & Financial Services Section Aaron Hoag
- In re: Korean Ramen Antitrust Litigation: a Panel Discussion With Trial Counsel
- In the Clash Between the Venerable Per Se Rule and the Constitution, the Constitution Shall Prevail (In Time)
- Keynote Address: a Conversation With Justice Ming W. Chin
- Managing Antitrust and Complex Business Trials—a View From the Bench
- Masthead
- Promoting Competition In Competition Law: the Role of Third-party Funding In Overcoming Competitive Barriers In Private Antitrust Enforcement Practice
- The Road To Acquittal: Takeaways From U.S. V. Usher, Et Al.
- Criminal Antitrust Enforcement: Recent Highlights, Policy Initiatives, and What's To Come
CRIMINAL ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT: RECENT HIGHLIGHTS, POLICY INITIATIVES, AND WHAT’S TO COME
By Richard A. Powers1
Good afternoon. Thank you, Peter, for the kind introduction. It’s great to be back in San Francisco, and I appreciate the invitation to speak at the 29th Annual Golden State Institute. The timing of your event allows me to reflect on the many accomplishments of our outstanding prosecutors and to detail the Antitrust Division’s criminal enforcement priorities going forward.
My remarks today will focus on three topics: first, a recap of recent case-related developments; second, two significant policy announcements and their implications; and third, I will close with a few thoughts on our goals and plans for the future.
Before I get into those topics, however, I want to spend a few minutes talking about the state of our program. As many of you know, we’ve been navigating a period of change and transition at the Division. Over the last few years, we’ve had a number of significant, highly successful investigations wind down. As that has happened, we have shifted our limited resources to new investigations and new initiatives.