Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report Index-Summary

UNIONS

– Antitrust exemption inapplicable to alleged job conspiracy (1st Cir.), 95:157

UNITED KINGDOM (UK)

– Air cargo, price fixing, former British Airways World Cargo manager pleads guilty (D.D.C.), 95:322
– Air travel

– – EasyJet/GB Airways, acquisition approved, 94:88
– – Passenger flight fuel surcharges, British Airways employees charged, In Brief, 95:149
– – VLM Airlines acquisition, Air France/KLM offers divestitures, 94:506; peak time slots transfer to Eastern accepted, 95:419

– Apparel, Nike/Umbro deal cleared, 94:63
– Chemicals, packaged chlorine, BOC/Ineos deal probed, 94:562
– Construction sector, UK challenges suspected bid rigging, 94:429
– Consumer losses estimated, 94:407
– Energy futures exchange, ICE Clear Europe granted recognition, 94:504
– Food

– – Consolidation in alginates sector cleared, 95:128
– – Long Clawson/Millway merger, Competition Comm'n investigates, 95:344
– – Scottish dairies, Office of Fair Trading closes price fixing investigation, 95:391

– Marine hose, UK sentences business officials to prison terms, 94:604
– Merger review, ABA sections praise draft guidance, 94:630
– Motion pictures

– – Lovefilm may acquire Amazon DVD rental business, 94:404
– – North London cinema merger probed, In Brief, 94:305

– Motor vehicles, training aid for Vauxhall Motors approved, 94:407
– Newspapers, Dunfermline Press/Trinity Mirror, undertakings may be accepted, 94:144; spinoffs accepted, 94:479
– Office of Fair Trading issues annual report, 95:98
– Railroad merger, East Midlands/Stagecoach, deal will not be referred for probe, 94:147
– Scotland office, report on first year efforts issued, 94:331
– Semiconductors, FTAIA dismissal of foreign DRAM buyers claims affirmed (9th Cir.), 95:196
– Telecommunications, state aid for Scotland broadband approved, 94:452
– Television

– – Hospedia/Premier acquisition, Competition Comm'n investigates, 95:347
– – Video on demand, proposed joint venture probed, 95:19

– Uniform merger analysis guidelines to be created by two agencies, 94:427
– Video games, Grand Theft Auto, class decertified for lack of predominance (S.D.N.Y.), 95:166

UTILITIES

– Italy

– – Advertising policies of utilities probed, 94:564
– – Dominance abuse of electricity sector probed, 95:366

– Petroleum

See OIL AND GAS

– Verizon/MCI merger authorization by state Public Utility Comm'n reinstated (Pa.), 94:19
– Waste management

See WASTE MANAGEMENT

– Water and sewer utility

See WATER