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Sessions to Focus on Remedies

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division today announced that the latest in a series of joint public hearings designed to examine the implications of single-firm conduct under the antitrust laws will take place on March 28 and March 29 in Washington. These hearings have been examining whether and when specific types of single-firm conduct may violate Section 2 of the Sherman Act (which prohibits monopolization and attempted monopolization) by harming competition and consumer welfare and when they are pro-competitive and lawful.

The panels on March 28 and March 29 will explore issues regarding remedies in single-firm conduct cases. The sessions will be held at the FTC Headquarters Building, Room 432, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, DC. Further information is provided below:

March 28 Sessions

The Objectives and Goals of Remedies in Section 2 Cases (9:30 A.M.–12:00 P.M.):

Robert W. Crandall is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution.

David A. Heiner is the vice president and deputy general counsel for antitrust at Microsoft Corporation.

Per Hellström is chief of Unit C-3 at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition.

Abbott (Tad) Lipsky is a partner at Latham & Watkins LLP and a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.

Structural Versus Conduct Remedies (1:30 P.M.–4:30 P.M.):

Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall distinguished service professor of law, faculty director for curriculum, and the director of the law and economics program at the University of Chicago Law School.

Franklin M. Fisher is the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton professor of microeconomics, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Andrew Joskow is senior vice president of NERA Economic Consulting and a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.

Dietrich Kleemann is the head of the task force on ex post assessment of merger decisions at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition.

John Thorne is senior vice president and deputy general counsel at Verizon.

March 29 Session

Remedy in the Face of Technological Change (9:30 A.M.–12:30 P.M.):

Michael Cunningham is general counsel at Red Hat Inc.

Renata B. Hesse is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Marina Lao is a professor of law at Seton Hall Law School.

William H. Page is the Marshall M. Criser eminent scholar at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law.

Howard A. Shelanski is an associate dean and a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall, and the director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.

The public and press are invited to attend all of the hearings. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Interested parties may submit written comments to the FTC and the Antitrust Division.

Further information about these hearings will be posted on the FTC’s Web site, http://www.ftc.gov/os/sectiontwohearings/index.htm and the Antitrust Division’s Web site, http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/hearings/single_firm/sfchearing.htm. Individuals seeking more information on the hearings should contact Patricia Schultheiss, FTC, at section2hearings@ftc.gov, or Gail Kursh, Deputy Chief, Legal Policy Section, Antitrust Division, at singlefirmconduct@usdoj.gov.

The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop and avoid them. To file a complaint, or to get free information on any of 150 consumer topics, call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357), or use the complaint form at http://www.ftc.gov. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to thousands of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

MEDIA CONTACT:

Mitchell J. Katz,
Office of Public Affairs
202-326-2161

STAFF CONTACT:

Patricia Schultheiss,
202-326-2877

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