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Antitrust & Trade Reg.

May 21, 2011

DOJ Antitrust Bark Bigger than Bite

Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney delivered a much-ballyhooed speech annoucing a new antitrust sheriff in town two years ago, but has come up short on promises of vigorous enforcement.


By Robert Iafolla


Daily Journal Staff Writer


WASHINGTON - Shortly after Assistant Attorney General Christine A. Varney took the reins at the Justice Department's antitrust section, she delivered a much-ballyhooed speech essentially announcing there was a new sheriff in town. Although Varney coupled that May 2009 address with the withdrawal of a department report that advocated a limited view of the law restricting dominant firms, antitrust experts s...

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