FTC: Watch articles from January 2001

FTC: Watch archives from January 2001

Abortion and antitrust.
January 15, 2001... "In Antitrust, Tim Robbins plays Gary Winston, the lank-haired C.E.O. of a giant software company called NURV, who has made a fortune flooding the market with inferior copies of competitors' products' and finds himself the target of a Justice...

FTC gears up for February HSR reform.(Emergency Hart-Scott-Rodino Rules)(Statistical Data Included)
January 15, 2001... The FTC Premerger Notification Office is working feverishly to draft an Emergency Hart-Scott-Rodino Rules package that includes revised HSR Notification Forms and Instructions by January 18 to enable major HSR reforms due to take effect on...

ABA publishes merger investigation and Second Request guidelines.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... FTC and Justice Dept. staff, collaborating with the ABA's Antitrust Section, have produced a report full of practical suggestions to help private practitioners and agency staff move the merger investigation and second request process along....

FTC baby food merger reply brief renews call for preliminary injunction.
January 15, 2001... The FTC's January 10 reply brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit argues that the District Court's October 20 decision not to enjoin the HJ Heinz/Beech-Nut baby food merger "should be reversed and the matter remanded with...

Boast succeeds Parker as Competition Bureau chief.(Molly S. Boast )(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Competition Bureau Director Molly S. Boast succeeding Richard G. Parker on January 15, says that "it is very important to have continuity at the Competition Bureau level even if there is change in the Commission with the new administration."...

ABA task forces explore merger theory and administration transition issues.
January 15, 2001... Veteran practitioners say that antitrust enforcement is already in the mainstream and foresee no dramatic changes from the new administration. Indeed, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue partner Charles A. James, who was a Reagan Administration...

Global Competition Initiative meets in England next month.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... The International Bar Association (IBA) will present the first conference of the Global Competition Initiative (GCI) -- an international multilateral competition policy initiative that was originally recommended in the International Competition...

Role of EU judicial review and merger law.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... "Are there interim measures that the European Commission (EC) could use to block a merger?" ABA International Antitrust and Foreign Competition Law Committee chairman Linda Marshall asked at a Committee brown bag lunch on December 12 that...

FTC report: smokeless ads, revenues rise -- Swedish Match shelves merger.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Swedish Match and National Tobacco have abandoned their proposed union, prompting the Commission to dismiss a December 21 administrative complaint alleging that Swedish Match's proposed acquisition of the loose leaf chewing tobacco brands of...

FTC staff to DOE: don't isolate electric reliability from competition.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Consider comprehensive regulatory reform, FTC Economics Bureau Chief Jeremy Bulow and FTC Policy Planning Office Director Susan DeSanti advised the U.S. Energy Dept. (DOE) in a January 4 staff comment on the DOE's proposal to impose mandatory...

Fur Rules amended to exclude cat & dog fur.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... The Commission has amended the Fur Products Labeling Act (Fur Rules) to exclude dog or cat fur products from the items the Commission may exempt from fur labeling requirements because they contain only a small amount of fur. The amendments...

Any comments on FCRA affiliate information sharing?(Fair Credit Reporting Act)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... The FTC invites comment on its proposed interpretations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act's (FCRA) provisions (16 CFR Part 600, Appendix B) that permit companies to communicate consumer information to their affiliates without incurring the...

FTC amends Amplifier Rule.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... The FTC approved a Final Rule and Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPR) for the Commission's Rule Relating to Power Output Claims for Amplifiers Utilized in Home Entertainment Products (Amplifier Rule). The SNPR seeks to clarify the...

FTC & E-Retailing Assoc. cohost Internet marketing seminar.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... The FTC and the Electronic Retailing Association (ERA) will cohost a one-day, case-driven seminar for Internet retailers, marketers and suppliers on applying offline rules and regulations online on January 30 at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons...

Air travel (I) - States target Orbitz.com.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Air travel (I) - States target Orbitz.com: 21 state attorneys general wrote to Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater on January 4 expressing antitrust concerns about the "Orbitz.com" website -- a proposed Internet joint venture of major...

Air travel (II) - Mergers.(Senator Herb Kohl promises to hold hearing on proposed merger)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Air travel (II) - Mergers: Senate Antitrust Subcommittee chairman Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) and Ranking Member Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) promise to hold hearings on America Airline's proposed purchase of TWA and US Airways assets as soon as possible,...

Retail slotting fees.(to be undertaken by Senate Small Business Committee)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Retail slotting fees: the Senate Small Business Committee plans more hearings on slotting fees by late summer. Meanwhile, the FTC is finalizing plans to proceed with spending the $900,000 Congress earmarked for addressing possible slotting fee...

Forget the chads, get the Nets.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Forget the chads, get the Nets: House Energy and Commerce Committee spokesman Ken Johnson confirms that the Committee will hold hearings by early February into the Voter News Service, a joint venture of the major television networks and the...

Where did all the juice go?(House Energy and Commerce Committee to hold hearings on effects of deregulation in California and Pennsylvania)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Where did all the juice go? The House Energy and Commerce Committee is wiping the slate clean on the numerous comprehensive electricity deregulation bills proposed in the 106th Congress and will hold hearings to figure out where electricity...

Instant message for Steve & Gerry.(regarding Rime Warner, America Online merger)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Instant message for Steve & Gerry: Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) and Ranking member Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) have announced their intention to "carefully monitor" the Federal Communications Commission's January 12...

Now, this is real pork.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Now, this is real pork: Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) -- who bills himself as the only working family farmer in the U.S. Senate -- urged vigorous antitrust scrutiny of the Tyson Foods' purchase of IBP, Inc. in a January 3 letter to Attorney...

Telecommunications - how about "Tauzin.hr"?(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Telecommunications - how about "Tauzin.hr"? House Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin has asked Michael M. Roberts, CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to prepare for "a Subcommittee on Telecommunications...

Telecommunications - adult privacy.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Telecommunications - adult privacy: Rep. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) has reintroduced his Online Privacy Protection Act of 2000, H.R.3560. The legislation would "require the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe regulations to protect the...

Words to live by.(Christopher Bond)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Words to live by: "I got into government to get out of practicing antitrust law," Senate Small Business Committee chairman Christopher "Kit" Bond, who describes himself as a recovering antitrust attorney.

Letter: American Antitrust Institute's advice to Bush Administration.(Letter to the Editor)
January 15, 2001... December 27, 2000 President-Elect George W. Bush Transition Office 1800 G Street, NW Washington, DC 20270 Re: Antitrust Policy Dear President-Elect Bush: The American Antitrust Institute is an independent non-profit...

Volvo will divest truck line to rescue Renault deal.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... The Justice Department will let Volvo go through with its proposed $1.8 billion acquisition of Renault -- but only because Volvo agreed to divest a line of heavy duty trucks. DOJ had concluded that the deal as originally proposed would have...

Reno approves Denver newspapers' JOA, Rocky Mountain News "Failing".(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... The joint operating arrangement proposed by Denver's two daily newspapers -- the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post -- was approved after Attorney General Janet Reno found that the Rocky Mountain News was in probable danger of financial...

Joint electric power retail marketing in Arkansas gets federal approval.
January 15, 2001... A proposal by 17 rural Arkansas electric power distribution cooperatives that would allow them to jointly market electric power to retail customers got an assurance from the Department of Justice that it would not challenge the arrangement...

Michigan companies, execs charged with rigging tool bids to General Motors.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Two Michigan machine tool companies and three top executives have been charged with rigging bids for tooling contracts on automotive projects to General Motors Corporation, the Department of Justice. One company and two executives have agreed...

Intellectual Property Crime Manual.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Trademark counterfeiting, trade secret theft, copyright piracy: if it's not one thing, it's another. And the Justice Department has just the tool to help those who want to prosecute such crimes. Released during the first week in...

Drugmakers divest antiemetics and antivirals to form world's largest drug company.(Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham )(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham agreed to divest the antiemetic product Kytril and the anti-viral products Famvir and Vectavir/ Denavir to obtain December 18 antitrust clearance from the FTC for their $182 billion merger into the world's...

FMC and Asahi settle FTC charges they divided world MCC markets.(Federal Trade Commission, case of monopoly in the chemical industry)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... FMC Corporation (FMC) and Japan's Asahi Chemical Industry Co. Ltd (Asahi Chemical) agreed to avoid dividing markets and observe strict distribution rules to settle FTC allegations that they conspired to monopolize the world market for...

El Paso Energy acquires gas pipelines, processing plants following divestiture deal.(antitrust suits were avoided with the action)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... El Paso Energy Corporation and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) agreed to divest gas pipelines and other natural gas assets to win FTC approval for El Paso's $840 million acquisition of 8,500 miles of natural gas pipelines and natural gas...

FTC OKs CSC's Mynd acquisition.(Federal Trade Commission approves Computer Sciences Corp. divesture)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) will divest Mynd Corp's (formerly the Policy Management Systems Corp) claims assessment system, known as Claims Outcome Advisor (COA) to settle FTC allegations that CSC's $568 million acquisition of Mynd would have...

Valspar to divest mirror coatings business to appease the Section 7 gods.(monopoly of the silver, tin and copper mirror solutions markets feared)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Valspar Corp. has agreed to divest its mirror coatings assets to family-owned Spraylat Corp. of Mount Vernon, N.Y. to avoid an FTC challenge to Valspar's acquisition of Lilly Industries, Inc., one of the two leading domestic suppliers of...

Black and Decker settles FTC "Made in USA" charges.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Kwikset Corp. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Black and Decker Corp. The FTC charges that Kwikset has falsely claimed that its residential locks and lock systems are, among other things, "All American made and proud of it." To remedy...

Feds, states tout their toughness on deceptive mail, unsolicited faxes, "spam".(Federal Commission Trade report)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... A new report, "Project Mailbox IV" totes up "more than 300 law enforcement actions" that government consumer protection officials pursued during fiscal year 2000 (October 1, 1999 to September 30, 2000) "More than one-third of the federal cases...

FTC telemarketing enforcement festival targets foreign lottery, office supply sales.(Federal Trade Commission)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... A gaggle of Canadian cross-border telemarketers has run afoul of the FTC's Telemarketing Rule by failing to disclose to their customers that it is illegal to buy and/or sell foreign lottery tickets in the U.S. Agency lawyers have persuaded...

ExxonMobil sells jet turbine oil business to BP.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... The Commission approved Exxon Mobil Corp.'s application to divest Exxon's jet turbine oil business to British Petroleum Exploration & Oil Company, as required by the Commission's proposed decision and order in Docket No. C-3907. Commissioner...

Dupont wins in camera treatment.(E.I. Dupont De Nemours and Company)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... The Commission voted to approve E.I. Dupont De Nemours & Company's April 5 request (amended on September 19) that the company receive in camera (nonpublic) treatment for an additional 10 years of 21 pages of certain exhibits that are part of...

The following orders are final.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Novartis AG/AstraZeneca PLC File No. 001-0082 Contact: Morris Bloom, 202-326-2707 Boeing Co./Hughes Electronics. The modified consent agreement expands the definition of "nonpublic satellite information" to include information...

Calendar.(Federal Trade Commission cases)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... January 19-22 - FTC Deputy Competition Bureau Director Molly S. Boast will participate in an ABA Antitrust Section Midwinter Meeting, Four Seasons Hotel, Maui at Wailea, Hawaii January 22 - FTC Commissisoner Mozelle Thompson will address...

Former Reagan administration FTC Economics Bureau Director Wendy Gramm.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Former Reagan administration FTC Economics Bureau Director Wendy Gramm is heading the Bush administration's FTC transition team. The team has interviewed all the FTC Commissioners.

Columbia University Law School Prof. Harvey Goldschmid.(professor joining the American Antitrust Institute)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Columbia University Law School Prof. Harvey Goldschmid has rejoined the American Antitrust Institute's Advisory Board. A member previously, Goldschmid resigned when he became General Counsel of the SEC. Univ. of Mass. economics Professor...

Who wants to be a Millionaire?(Tom Syta, public official, to appear in the popular television show)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Who wants to be a Millionaire? Tom Syta, head of the FTC's Los Angeles Office, among others. He will appear on the January 18 broadcast of ABC's WWBM program, taped earlier. How'd he do? It's a secret until the broadcast.

Ashcroft on antitrust: to be prudent, he'll have to check with the experts.(John D. Ashcroft)
January 29, 2001... Not that they're suspicious, but the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked attorney general nominee former Sen. John Ashcroft 343 questions following the "live" hearings on his nomination. A Committee vote on whether to report the...

ABA transition report: more educational resources needed.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... The antitrust agencies need more resources for educational antitrust efforts such as workshops, studies, and participation in global competition policy harmonization efforts according to the ABA Transition Taskforce report for the Bush...

Worksheet for value of proposed deals : Swindle urges comments on HSR rules.(Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust amendments)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle is encouraging public comments on "the clarity, consistency, and anticipated effects" of the FTC emergency Rulemaking package created to conform agency rules to the Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger reporting reforms...

AOL Time Warner Compliance Report: Monitor Trustee in the works.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... FTC staff are interviewing a number of people to act as the Monitor Truxtee for the America OnlineTime Warner (AOL-TW) settlement that bars AOL-TW from interfering with content from rival providers and requires the firm to share its broadband...

California electricity crisis : Tauzin, Barton ask FTC to update state electricity dereg studies.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Looking for answers to the California electricity deregulation crisis, House Energy & Commerce Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) House Energy & Air Quality Subcommittee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Tex.) asked the FTC to conduct an updated study of the...

Old and new online privacy initiatives.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... U.S. Reps. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) and Anna G. Eshoo (D-Cal). have introduced the Consumer Internet Privacy Enhancement Act (H.R.237) to prevent commercial websites from collecting personally identifying information unless they provide clear...

Antitrust Economics & Innovation seminar.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Does the fact that innovation is important for growth and economic welfare mean that "antitrust should back off"? Antitrust Division Chief Economist Joseph Farrell asked himself at an ABA Antitrust Section Economics Committee brownbag lunch on...

Still interested in B2B issues?(business-to-business)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... "B2B antitrust concerns are typically relatively modest, but of course, careful antitrust counseling is' appropriate," FTC Competition Bureau Policy and Evaluation Office Director David A. Balto The ABA Antitrust Section's Fall 2000 edition...

FTC adjusts FY 2001 Sect. 8 thresholds.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... The Commission has amended the jurisdictional thresholds for Section 8 of the Clayton Act, as it has been required to do by January 31 every year since 1990. The agency is required to calculate and publish revised jurisdictional thresholds...

FTC Commission roundtable on ADR and international B2C contracts.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... The FTC Commission will hold a public roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C. on February 6 to discuss: * recommendations by business and consumer groups regarding the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for resolving online...

Merger watch.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Merger watch: three mergers pending at the FTC are near resolution and should be approved in the near future -- possibly by the time this issue reaches your desk: DTE/Michcon, El Paso/Coastal and Metso/Svedala. Rumors that Dow Chemical Co....

FTC oversight.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... FTC oversight: In the 1980 FTC Improvements Act, Congress tasked its Commerce Committees with holding oversight hearings on the agency every six months. Sure. The Committees complied with that mandate for, oh, maybe six months. Now, House...

NOPEC.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... NOPEC: Following press reports that Oil Producing & Exporting Countries' (OPEC) members plan to cut world oil production by 5%, Senate sources report that the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee will soon revisit the No Oil Producing and Exporting...

Gasoline prices.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Gasoline prices: The FTC investigation into Midwest gasoline price hikes that was requested by former House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) is on schedule, according to FTC sources [FTC: WATCH No. 547, June 19]. New Judiciary...

Airline B2B worries.(business-to-business)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Airline B2B worries: The Senate Antitrust Subcommittee shares the concerns of the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) and 21 state attorneys general over Orbitz.com -- the proposed airline ticket B2B exchange to be owned by the five largest...

And foreign exchange B2Bs.(business to business transactions)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... And foreign exchange B2Bs: Antitrust Subcommittee B2B concerns extend to competitors collaborating to develop Internet businesses in the foreign exchange (FX) market. Sites such as FXAII and Atriax are jointly owned by competitor banks and...

Not to mention airline mergers.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Not to mention airline mergers: The Senate Antitrust Subcommittee plans hearings in the second week of February on America Airlines' proposed purchase of TWA and participation in the division of US Airways assets only because the Republican...

Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., Carderm Capital L.P., and Andrx Corp.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., Carderm Capital L.P., and Andrx Corp. have settled FTC charges that they had restrained prescription drug price competition (Docket No. 9293) On November 28 both sides submitted a Joint Motion to Withdraw Matter...

Closings.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Closings: The FTC has closed its investigation into DoubleClick's ad serving and data collection practices, begun in February 2000 following a report that the company was planning to combine offline info from Abacus with their clickstream data....

The kids, again.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... The kids, again: The Senate Commerce Committee wants the FTC to provide two new, follow-up reports in 2001 describing whether violent entertainment media continue to be marketed to kids. A January 23 letter to FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky from...

Music across the water.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Music across the water: The European Commission is investigating whether the world's five biggest recorded music companies have colluded with retailers to set the price of compact discs (CDs) sold in the Europe, according to Reuters. The...

Ameritech wants long distance in Michigan.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Ameritech wants long distance in Michigan: Michigan Consumers overpay long-distance companies $1.03 Billion annually, according to an Ameritech Corp. study released on January 26. Seventeen years after the breakup of AT&T, the long-distance...

Grand jury indicts four Japanese execs.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... An indictment filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco charges that Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry Ltd executives Yuji Komatsu, Yoshihiko Katsuyama, Wakao Shinoda and Daicel Chemical Industries Ltd executive Hitoshi Hayashi have participated...

It's the banks, stupid : FleetBoston and Summit Bancorp to divest 5 Atlantic City branch offices.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... FleetBoston Financial Corp. and Summit Bancorp will sell off five branch banks in the Atlantic City, N.J. area to appease the Justice Dept.'s Antitrust Division. FleetBoston has also agreed that it any branch offices it closes in the...

Final judgments have been entered in.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Final judgments have been entered in U.S. v. Republic Services, Inc. and Allied Waste Industries, Inc., Civ. No. 00 2311, January 18, D.D.C.; U.S. v. Miller Industries, Inc., et al, Civ. No. 00-0305, December 12, 2000, D.D.C.

Sharp pays for upgrades to settle misrepresentation charges.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Sharp Electronics Corp. will provide low-cost upgrades to people who bought Mobilon Handheld Personal Computers (HPCs) during a several month period in 1999 and 2000, and will avoid false upgradability claims in future, to settle FTC...

Trading software marketers agree to advertising disclosures.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... The FTC says that Indigo Investment Systems, Inc. and Mr. Frank Alfonso falsely advertised that users of their "Indigo" trading software will realize "Huge Profits Investing in Hot Stocks" and other, similar claims. Promotional materials...

FTC, Defense launch "Soldier Sentinel," aggregated Consumer Sentinel data now on FTC's Internet site.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... The FTC and Defense Dept. will create "Soldier Sentinel" -- the first online system designed to identify and collect consumer and identity theft complaints from armed forces members and their families -- under a Memorandum of Understanding...

The following agreements are final:.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Houston Workshop, Ronald J. Schoemmell & Valdimar Thorkelsson; File No. 002-3024 Contact: Peter W. Lamberton, 202-326-3274 WFSEnterprises, Inc.; File No. 002-3025 Contact: Karen Leonard, 202-326-3597

Calendar.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... January 31 - House and Senate Energy Committee hearings on the California energy crisis FTC Commissioner Mozelle Thompson will speak informally on consumer privacy at the Sony Electronics Seminar in Park Ridge, New Jersey, 1:00pm - 2:30pm...

The Antitrust Division waved goodbye.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... The Antitrust Division waved goodbye to many Clinton Administration political appointees on Friday January 19, including Acting Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust A. Douglas Melamed, former Antitrust Division Foreign Commerce Section...

Former Deputy Attorney General and former Associate Judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Eric H. Holder Jr.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Former Deputy Attorney General and former Associate Judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Eric H. Holder Jr. will stay on as acting attorney general until a Bush Administration nominee, presumably former Sen. John Ashcroft,...

The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) posted a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) posted a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging tough questioning of Ashcroft regarding his stands on antitrust, and Microsoft, in particular. (Story elsewhere in this issue)

Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust John M. Nannes.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust John M. Nannes is now Acting Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust. Former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Robert S. Mueller III has become acting deputy attorney...

Former Antitrust Division Foreign Commerce Section Chief Charles S. Stark.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Former Antitrust Division Foreign Commerce Section Chief Charles S. Stark and former Acting Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust A. Douglas Melamed (in their new, private capacities) will represent the U.S. at the International Bar...

Milton A. Marquis.(joins Jenner and Block)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Milton A. Marquis, formerly senior counsel to the assistant attorney general in the Justice Dept.'s Antitrust Division, is now a partner in Jenner & Block's D.C. litigation practice group.

FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle.(Federal Trade Commission)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle sang the praises of the "smart and hard working" FTC staff at an ABA Antitrust Section Winter Meeting in Hawaii last week.

Arent Fox partners Lew Rose and John Feldman.(join Collier, Shannon and Scott)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Arent Fox partners Lew Rose and John Feldman, and a number of their associates have joined Collier Shannon and Scott's advertising & marketing group -- whose clients include AOL, General Motors, Handspring, Sears, Roebuck & Co., and Sun...