Last week, the merger cleared American antitrustlegislation and now only needs the approval of both sets of shareholders.
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But after more than a century of intervening to keep markets honest, U.S. antitrustlegislation is proving inadequate to the task.
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The possible measure needs to be approved by the European Commission, which is in charge of overseeing the application of antitrustlegislation.
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Yet the Justice Department, which is responsible for regulating near-monopolies like Amazon and applying U.S. antitrustlegislation, is ignoring Amazon's harrying of Hachette.
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One problem is current antitrustlegislation focuses on what the market share of the combined entity would be to determine whether it would hurt competition.
Uso de antitrust law en inglés
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The FTC works with the U.S. Justice Department to enforce antitrustlaw.
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Standard Oil was eventually broken up, giving birth to U.S. antitrustlaw.
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Robert Pitofsky, a former FTC chairman who now teaches antitrustlaw, disagreed.
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The Justice Department asked her to declare the deal illegal under antitrustlaw.
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Questions abound for all sides: How strong is existing antitrustlaw?
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The Justice Department will determine whether the deal is legal under antitrustlaw.
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Such an agreement would constitute a violation of US antitrustlaw.
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The FTC, which investigates actions that might break antitrustlaw, declined to comment.
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The FTC is trying to determine whether it violates antitrustlaw.
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To this day, antitrustlaw is based on these three acts.
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Forrest was a lawyer specializing in antitrustlaw before she became a judge.
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It is difficult to show a violation of U.S. antitrustlaw, legal experts said.
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The president does not directly decide if a merger is illegal under antitrustlaw.