The purpose of this chapter is to give a brief overview of current issues affecting the management of multi-district antitrust litigation (MDLs) in federal district courts in the United States from the class action plaintiff's perspective. Each of the topics discussed below could readily be expanded into a chapter of its own, but the goal here is to give the reader a sense of what has been going on in this area over the last 18 months.
Overview
Colombia
Mexico
Venezuela
International
- Developments in International Leniency Agreements: 2007 to 2008
- Pricing in the 21st Century: A Comparative Perspective
US substantive areas
- Global Cartel Enforcement: Recent Developments and their Implications
- Antitrust Compliance in the Age of Multi-Jurisdictional Leniency: New Ideas and New Challenges
- Private Recovery Actions in the United States: Reducing - and Recouping - the 'Cartel Tax'
- Standards for Assessing Bundled Discounts
- Another Active Year for the FTC and DoJ
- Monopolisation by Deception
- RPM Litigation in the Wake of Leegin
US special enforcement
- More of the same: growth in private antitrust litigation and cutbacks by the US Supreme Court
- Recent Enforcement Activities of the US Antitrust Agencies
US procedural issues
- Managing Multi-District Litigation
- Dismissal Standards Following Bell Atlantic v Twombly - A One-Year Retrospective
US industry sectors
- A Year of Living With Leegin
- Developments in Antitrust in Pharmaceutical Markets
- Antitrust Developments in the Media and Entertainment Industries
- The Two Faces of the Internet: Untangling Net Neutrality
Argentina
Brazil
- Brazil: Cartels and Leniency
- Antitrust Law and Intellectual Property Rights in Brazil
- Reforms in Brazilian Telecommunications Regulations and their Impact on Sector Competition