at Santa Cruz County Courthouse Gary Johnson, the homeless activist doing the nightly protest against the Sleeping Ban, the Lodging Ban, and the curfew at the Santa Cruz County Courthouse from late December

Price fixing is nothing new, but the past month has seen a spate of cases arriving before the courts - and the punishments dished out suggests that authorities around the world are taking a tough stance.

Many of us remember when the U.S. Department of Justice broke up the old telephone monopoly.

Greece's Eurobank (EFGr.AT) and Alpha Bank (ACBr.AT) are expected to announce a merger deal on Monday, Greek banking sources told Reuters on Saturday.

The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) today commended the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) complaint to block the proposed merger of H&R Block and TaxACT.

of the Proposed AT&T – T-Mobile Takeover.

The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in Washington to block VeriFone Systems Inc. from buying Hypercom Corp., saying the proposed deal would hurt competition in the market for point-of-sale terminals in the U.S.

European regulators this week joined the UK, US, and Japanese regulators in an intense examination of possible price-fixing in LIBOR. Several leading financial institutions have been named in a series of suits filed in the US and abroad. Although lawsuits began to surface in March, questions about misconduct were first raised in 2008 by the Bank for International Settlements.

This Commentary discusses how the role of competition law or antitrust law often has been misunderstood by transitional economies as a means to create economic growth.

AAI filed comments with the European Commission in response to its public consultation on developing a coherent European approach to collective redress. In its comments, AAI maintained that an effective system of collective redress requires some form of "opt out" collective actions and an effective mechanism of financing such actions.