Our committee primarily addresses developments in case law and legislation as they affect antitrust and trade regulation civil and criminal litigation. The committee explores and analyzes substantive antitrust issues with respect to government and private litigation. The committee also explores litigation techniques for handling problems peculiar to complex antitrust litigation and to antitrust grand jury practice.

On August 14, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of claims against various manufacturers of dynamic random access memory ("DRAM") brought by foreign purchasers who bought DRAM solely in foreign commerce.

On April 22, 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in the Rambus matter. The Court of Appeals ruled that the FTC failed to sustain its allegation of monopolization.

Are you interested in finding out how lower courts are applying the two recent Supreme Court antitrust decision, Leegin and Twombly?