Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Antitrust Series
Antitrust and Competition Law Update: Important Changes to U.S. Antitrust Statutes Become Law
Abstract
On June 22, 2004, President Bush signed into law perhaps the most significant amendments to the U.S. antitrust statutes since the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. These changes, enacted as H.R. 1086, will have substantial implications for several areas of antitrust enforcement. These include: • limiting potential civil actions against standard-setting organizations;increasing even further incentives for antitrust wrongdoers to participate in the Antitrust Division’s corporate leniency program; increasing criminal penalties for corporations and individuals; and enhancing judicial scrutiny of antitrust consent decrees.
Subject Area
Anti-Trust
Recommended Citation
William Kolasky,
"Antitrust and Competition Law Update: Important Changes to U.S. Antitrust Statutes Become Law"
(June 2004).
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Antitrust Series.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Antitrust Series.
Working Paper 25.
http://law.bepress.com/wilmer/papers/art25
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