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The planned deal would have combined the largest and third-largest book publishers in the U.S.

Over the past several years, U.S. antitrust agencies have renewed enforcement focus on labor issues, including agreements involving employee hiring and compensation. These include...

A judge blocked the $2.2 billion merger of top publishers Penguin Random House and rival Simon & Schuster, agreeing with the argument laid out by the Justice Department.

Array of new reports on ManufacturedHomeProfessionalNews (MHProNews) spotlight or update issues related to the causes and cures of the affordable housing crisis

Introduction The International Competition Network (ICN), a “virtual” organization comprised of most of the world’s competition (antitrust) agencies and expert non-governmental advisors (NGAs), held its Sixteenth Annual Conference in Porto, Portugal from May 10-12. (I attended this Conference as an NGA.) Now that the ICN has turned “sweet sixteen,” a stocktaking is appropriate. The ICN can point to some significant accomplishments, but faces major future challenges.

Human Resources and Workforce Management News

The president of a paving and asphalt contractor based in Billings, Montana, has pleaded guilty to attempting to monopolize the market for highway crack-sealing services in Montana and Wyoming.

Company Admits to Criminal Allocation and Wage-Fixing Conspiracy Targeting Nurses Serving a Nevada School District.

​​​​​​​Section 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 (Section 8) prohibits directors and officers from serving simultaneously on the boards of competing corporations, subject to...

Amazon donated $400,000 to a conservative nonprofit group that’s pushed back on antitrust legislation. It tied for the second-highest listed donor...