Joseph Angland is a partner in White & Case LLP. His practice focuses on antitrust litigation and antitrust counseling on transactions and business policy. Mr. Angland recently served as Chair of the Section of Antitrust Law of the ABA. He has contributed to dozens of antitrust publications, including serving as the editor-in-chief of Antitrust Law Developments, the Section’s principal treatise on United States antitrust law. Mr. Angland received his B.S. in economics from M.I.T. and his J.D. from the Harvard Law School.
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On April 13, 2009, the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division ("DOJ") announced its Economic Recovery Initiative ("Recovery Initiative"), which is designed to identify any fraud or collusive activity related to the federal government’s stimulus spending under the American Recovery and (...)
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Background On May 11, 2009, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) formally changed its position on the agency’s role in the enforcement of the antitrust laws against monopolists. In a speech by new Assistant Attorney General Christine A. Varney and a press release (...)
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On May 11, 2009, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), in a speech by new Assistant Attorney General Christine A. Varney and a press release issued later in the day, formally withdrew the report entitled Competition and Monopoly : Single-Firm Conduct under Section 2 of (...)
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On February 25, 2009, the Supreme Court firmly rejected the so-called "price-squeeze" theory of antitrust liability, under which a vertically integrated firm with monopoly power in an upstream market could be found to violate Section 2 of the Sherman Act by selling the upstream product at so (...)
