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20040443: Providence Equity Partners IV L.P.; Lamco Communications, Inc.
20040435: OCM Principal Opportunities Fund III, L.P.; Jacob M. Schorr
20040434: Finisar Corporation; Honeywell International Inc.
Fountain of Youth Group, The, LLC
Contact Lens Rule; Opthalmic Practice Rules - 16 CFR Parts 315 and 456
Opthalmic Practice Rules - 16 CFR Part 456
20040428: SAVVIS Communications Corporation; Cable & Wireless plc
20040407: Pegasus Related Partners, L.P.; Property Risk Services, LLC
Tenet Healthcare Corporation and Frye Regional Medical Center, Inc.
A consent order prohibits Frye Regional Medical Center, Inc., an acute care hospital in Hickory, North Carolina, and its parent company Tenet Healthcare Corporation from entering into any agreement to negotiate fees on behalf of any physician practicing in four North Carolina counties and from refusing to deal with insurance companies and other payers. Also refer to related administrative complaint issued to Piedmont Health Alliance. This settlement is the first case in which the Commission has named a hospital as a participant in an alleged physician price-fixing conspiracy.
0402001 Informal Interpretation
0402002 Informal Interpretation
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., et al. v. Empagran S.A.
20040415: Providence Equity Partners IV L.P.; Freedom Communications, Inc.
General Electric Company, In the Matter of
A final consent order settled antitrust concerns stemming from General Electric Company’s proposed acquisition of Agfa-Gevaert N.V.’s nondestructive testing business. According to the complaint issued with the consent order, the transaction as proposed would have eliminated competition in the United States markets for portable flaw detectors, corrosion thickness gages, and precision thickness gages - equipment used to inspect the tolerance of materials without damaging them or impairing their future usefulness. The consent order requires General Electric to divest its worldwide Panametrics Ultrasonic NDT business to R/D Tech, Inc. within 20 days after the transaction is completed.