• Software Mergers
  • The AOL Netscape Merger.
• Oil Industry Mergers
  • Exxon/Mobil merger
  • August 11, 1998 statement on BP/Amoco merger. See also the August 13, 1998 letter from Representative Dennis Kuchinich (D-OH) to the FTC regarding this merger.
  • Misc Oil Industry Mergers.
• Retail and Movie Mergers
  • Alaska: Safeway's 1998 attempt to purchase Carrs.
  • Staples/Office Depot
  • Move Price Watch, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees oppositioin to the Sony Loews and Cineplex Odeon merger.
• Publishing Mergers
  • West/Thomson Merger
    On December 23, 1996, Judge Paul Friedman of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia rejected a proposed consent decree in U.S. v. Thomson Corporation. The proposed consent degree would have ended an antitrust action by the Department of Justice and several state attorney generals against Thomson for its acquisition of West Publishing. There were several objections to the consent degree from various library, small business and consumer groups, which were rejected by Judge Friedman. However, Judge Friedman ruled the consent order did not serve the public interest because a compulsory license of the West citations to published judicial opinions did not go far enough in facilitating entry and competition in the market for publishing primary legal materials. September 3, 1996 letter by CPT opposing Thomson Corporation's purchase of West Publishing.
• Telecommunications Mergers
  • AT&T/MCI
  • Worldcom/MCI
• Transportation Mergers
  • Boeing/McDonnell Douglas
  • Brief July 1, 1996 letter from Ralph Nader and James Love to Linda J. Morgan, Chair of the Surface Transportation Board, urging opposition to the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Transportation merger.
• Health Care Mergers
  • July 7, 1996 letter from Ralph Nader and James Love to Gail Kursh, Chief of the Health Care Task Force of the DOJ's Antitrust Division, requesting an investigation into factors surounding a merger invovling a small community hospital in Winsted Connecticut.

Commentary on Merger Policy

• April 16, 1998, James Love, "Why the Government Should Stope Some Mergers," from IntellectualCapital.com.
• CPT's March 5, 1997 sign-on letter to the FTC regarding use of the Internet to enhance public participation in Hart Scott Rodino Merger Reviews. One of the issues raised in this letter concerns secrecy of the HSR process. This is the Federal Trade Commision's April 11, 1997 change in policy regarding the FTC disclosure of HSR reviews.

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