Word: antitrusters
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...with industry rivals from 1999 to 2002 to fix the prices of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, used in everything from cell phones to laptops, forcing major computer manufacturers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Apple to raise prices to compensate. The fine is the second-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history...
...worked on will suit their purposes. Although for the most part he has shown a reliably conservative streak, Roberts has also taken some surprising stances, defending the rights of welfare recipients, criminal defendants and prisoners in pro bono cases, for instance, and representing the state attorneys general in their antitrust case against Microsoft. Still, while usually taking a fairly pragmatic approach to the law, Roberts has by and large demonstrated a consistent legal philosophy: it stresses relative judicial restraint and takes a limited view of congressional power but a broader view of executive privilege, all the while putting a strong...
...year after settling a long-running U.S. antitrust suit, De Beers has opened its first American retail business in New York City. Last month some 1,500 customers thronged to the unveiling, which featured the Millennium Star, one of the world's largest flawless diamonds, weighing 203 carats. Also in attendance: protesters from Survival International, a charity that has dogged the De Beers Group for allegedly helping push the bushmen of Botswana off their land. De Beers LV, the retail joint venture with LVMH, is operated independently of the parent company but has still drawn the ire of human-rights...
...billion electrical equipment company that was acquired late in 2002 by KKR and French group Wendel in France's biggest buyout. Legrand had been in the process of merging with a French competitor, Schneider Electric, and suddenly found itself in limbo after the European Union vetoed the deal on antitrust grounds...
...unfolding in a New York City courtroom, the case has already generated paper on a scale more typical of an antitrust battle. Not even writers of Dynasty could have dished such a saucy stew. In the courtroom, the children pointedly ignore Barbara Johnson, 49, who each day sits just a few feet from them, looking serene and expensively groomed--a far cry from the Polish art-history graduate who arrived in the U.S. in 1968 with just $100 and a few words of English. She went to work as a maid for Johnson and his second wife, and three years...