competition
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10th Circuit allows jury to decide multimillion-dollar antitrust lawsuit
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A jury will decide whether a manufacturer broke the law by threatening its customers with retaliation if they bought product from a rival supplier, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Monday. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit found a trial judge wrongly sided with defendant…
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Weiser to invite Coloradans to weigh in on Kroger-Albertsons merger
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Attorney General Phil Weiser announced on Thursday his intent to launch a listening tour to receive comments from Colorado residents about the impact of a proposed merger between supermarket giants Albertsons and Kroger. Weiser indicated he is part of a multistate effort to investigate the merger and the specific concerns that may accompany a consolidation…
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United States v. DaVita: Preview of groundbreaking white-collar trial in Denver
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The nearly three-week criminal trial of Denver-based DaVita, Inc. and its former leader, Kent Thiry, will begin on Monday morning, as prosecutors attempt to prove that a series of agreements between DaVita and its competitors are a novel violation of a century-old antitrust law. The government alleges there were high-level understandings that certain competitor companies…
