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2010 Year in Review: Antitrust and Business Litigation
01/01/2011
Emily W. Westridge
Reprinted by permission of the Texas Bar Journal.
In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a significant antitrust opinion and another opinion that clarified the scope and constitutionality of the crime known as “theft of honest services.” The Court also adopted important amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 concerning expert discovery. Finally, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission promulgated new horizontal merger guidelines. Each of these developments should give antitrust and business litigation practitioners much to think about in 2011.
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