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The FTC's Noerr-Pennington Report
David Fischer (Antitrust Review) beat me to the punch announcing the FTC’s release of its staff report from the Bureau of Competition and Office of Policy & Planning on the Noerr-Pennington doctrine, which immunizes private actors urging government action from antitrust enforcement. The full text of the report is available here. This should prove to ... The FTC's Noerr-Pennington Report
Please Don’t Regulate Zillowtalk
Several months ago, Geoff posted about Zillow.com, a website purporting to provide “Free, Instant Valuations and Data for 67,000,000+ Homes (…and you don’t have to enter any personal info and no one will contact you).” Several of us played around on Zillow a bit and concluded that it’s not all that accurate at estimating home ... Please Don’t Regulate Zillowtalk
The Grasso Case and Board Reverberations
The Law Blog asks “Will the Grasso Ruling Reverberate in Corporate Boardrooms?†The post includes the following quotes from some “executive pay gurus†via Business Week: • H. Rodgin Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell: “The precedent-setting issue here: a CEO’s duty to inform the board fully about his or her pay and the board’s duty to ... The Grasso Case and Board Reverberations
Hey- That’s Robert Monks!!!
I needed a catchy title, to compete with Mann’s title below. I could find no way to work “crack whore” into my title, however. But I figured mentioning Robert Monks – shareholder activist qua shareholder primacy radical – would have a small bit of the same impact. (Mind you, Robert Monks is a very very ... Hey- That’s Robert Monks!!!
Isn't Competition Grand?: Wal-Mart, Drugs, and Antitrust
Fred Tung highlights Wal-Mart’s new strategy of selling a month’s supply of 300 different generics for $4, noting that Target will match Wal-Mart’s prices but Walgreens and CVS will not. Isn’t competition grand? Well, not everyone is convinced that low prices for consumers is a good thing. Unsurprisingly, for instance, this strategy has not gone ... Isn't Competition Grand?: Wal-Mart, Drugs, and Antitrust
SSRN Top Tens for Corporate, Corporate Governance, and Securities Law
The current SSRN top tens for corporate, corporate governance, and securities law are after the jump.
Skilling is not a crack whore, it seems to me
In a post over at Co-op, Dave Hoffman wonders why so many in the blogoshpere are publicly outraged by Jeff Skilling’s 24-year sentence, but not, seemingly, by similar-length sentences for drug crimes. Larry and Christine Hurt (hers is the fifth comment down on Dave’s post) deftly handle the response. As I noted a while back: there ... Skilling is not a crack whore, it seems to me
Legal Status of the SEC’s Manual of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations
Since 1997, the SEC’s Manual of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations has been available online (see here). It is also searchable on Westlaw (see the FSEC-MISC database). The manual contains a bevy of interpretations of various SEC regulations. As to legal status of these interpretations, the manual states as follows: The responses discussed in this manual ... Legal Status of the SEC’s Manual of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations
Bainbridge Rebrands
Prof. Bainbridge has announced that it is time to shift from a general interest, punditry-style blog to a more narrow focus on issues of business law and economics: I plan to be more active over at Mirror of Justice, where I’ll blog about Catholic issues. And I may look around for a group blog to ... Bainbridge Rebrands
I'm About to Get More Productive …
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 era has begun. Today, the first part of my online poker and football watching research and writing weekend was interrupted with this message on my computer screen: The President of the United States has signed legislation that now causes PartyGaming to have to cease taking wagers from ... I'm About to Get More Productive …
Cablevision Buyout
Last week the Dolan family announced an offer to take Cablevision private. The family owns 22.5% of Cablevision’s common stock. However, Cablevision has a dual capitalization consisting of one-vote-per-share Class A stock (which trades on the NYSE) and ten-vote-per-share Class B Stock (which is not publicly traded). The Dolan family owns all of the Class ... Cablevision Buyout
SSRN Top Tens for Corporate, Corporate Governance, and Securities Law
The current SSRN top tens for corporate, corporate governance, and securities law are after the jump.
