The American Bar Association released an expanded antitrust...
The American Bar Association released an expanded antitrust handbook focusing on the telecom industry, it said Wednesday. It explores the “fundamental economic underpinnings of communications networks that make substantive analysis of antitrust issues in this sector unique and challenging,” the…
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association said. It also examines mergers, joint ventures and restraint of trade as applied to the telecom industry. Consumer protection and net neutrality are also covered. The book sells for $199 (http://bit.ly/153rfd6). “Monopolization and immunity issues have become particularly challenging for the telecom antitrust plaintiff following the Supreme Court’s decision in Verizon Communications Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko,” said an ABA summary of the book. “These issues, and their evolution since the 2004 Trinko decision are dealt with extensively” in the chapters on monopolization and immunity, the summary said. In Trinko, the U.S. Supreme Court found that an ILEC’s failure to share its network with competitors does not constitute a Sherman Act antitrust violation. A chapter on international issues focuses on regulatory and antitrust developments in Canada and the EU. An appendix contains a “comprehensive and understandable discussion” of the net neutrality debate, the summary said.