Title
Congress Increases Criminal Penalties For Antitrust Violations, Protects Standards Development Organizations And Amends Courts’ Power to Review Antitrust Consent Decrees
Author
Richard Liebeskind , and Bradford Biegon
Date
1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 6/17/2004)
(Original Publish Date: 6/17/2004)
Abstract
The House of Representatives recently passed a bill, H.R. 1086, that would limit liability under the antitrust laws for qualifying Standards Development Organizations, increase the maximum individual and corporate criminal penalties for antitrust law violations, and amend the Tunney Act to give federal judges greater authority to review antitrust consent decrees. The Bill, which passed the House on June 2, 2004, had already passed the Senate, and now awaits presidential approval