The Antitrust “Shakedown” Racket: Abolish the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
This Monday President Bush proposed a $2.2 trillion federal budget to Congress. Momentarily setting aside the sheer outrage over the destruction of such vast wealth in the pursuit of unconstitutional...
View ArticleThe Crusading Lawyers
Lawyers are supposed to act as advocates, defending the individual rights of their clients before the law. In any controversy, be it civil or criminal, the case must revolve around the parties, not...
View ArticleMoney, Wealth, and the Corruption of Government
It was hardly the end of an era, but the opening of the 108th Congress on January 07, 2003, brought the curtain down on the short tenure of Minnesota Senator Dean Barkley, a longtime ally of now-former...
View ArticleThe Libertarian Anti-Manifesto
Susan Lee, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, has an essay in Wednesday’s edition of that paper arguing in favor of “libertarianism.” Superficially, she makes a strong argument for...
View ArticleThe John Adams Family
President’s Day is the politically correct (and union-approved) way to celebrate the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, America’s two defining presidents in the pre-20th century era....
View ArticleThe FCC and the Science of Tyranny
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell seems to long for his days as an antitrust lawyer in the Clinton Justice Department. According to news reports this week, Powell directed FCC...
View ArticleThe Immoral Defense of ‘Amateurism’ as the Primary Virtue of College Sports
Consider the following scenario: A junior at a major university is majoring in marketing. She is one of the department’s most successful and intelligent students. All of her professors agree she will...
View ArticleJustice is Blind to Property Rights
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear the case of Three O Realty v. Empire State Development Corporation, an appeal of a New York state court’s decision to allow that state to seize...
View ArticleAbortion and the Left: All the Rights But One
Last month marked the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion case which overturned a Texas ban on the procedure. To commemorate that anniversary, the...
View ArticleEducating the Monopolists: Antitrust Prosecutor Klein Works to Reduce...
When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg first named Joel Klein to head the city’s public school system, the irony was immediately apparent: an antitrust lawyer heading one of the nation’s most infamous...
View ArticleNike, Free Speech and the Constitution
Nike v. Kasky presents the Supreme Court with an opportunity to undo some of the constitutional damage resulting from the so-called “commercial speech doctrine,” the Court’s test for deciding whether...
View ArticleUntrustworthy Trust Accounts
Most Americans have never heard the acronym “IOLTA,” but if you’ve ever been involved in a real estate closing or had an attorney hold your funds in escrow, than you’ve probably been affected by IOLTA....
View ArticleDefending the Indefensible: Nestles-Dreyer’s Ice Cream Merger
Previously, we reported on the Federal Trade Commission’s effort to derail a merger in the “superpremium” ice cream market. The story, it turns out, has garnered significant media attention, to the...
View ArticleThe Sin of ‘Sin Taxes’
Like most states, Georgia is facing a severe budget crisis. Estimates place Georgia’s deficit for the next fiscal year at between $800 million and $1 billion. To help remedy the situation, Governor...
View ArticleProperty Rights by Popular Vote
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in Cuyahoga Falls v. Buckeye Community Hope Foundation last month, unanimously ordering summary dismissal of a lawsuit arising from a 1996 referendum held by the...
View ArticleDeath by Antitrust: Mountain Health Care, R.I.P.
Last Friday, Mountain Health Care of Asheville, North Carolina, will close its offices for good. The 11 year-old company died not from bankruptcy or poor business judgment, but of antitrust poisoning....
View ArticleCapitalism Triumphs at Augusta
Mike Weir became the first Canadian, and first left-hander, to win the Masters. Weir triumphed in a one-hole playoff with American journeyman Len Mattiace after both players finished the tournament...
View ArticleAntitrust, Politics and the Media
On June 2, the Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on a new set of rules for media ownership. These rules dictate how many television stations can own, as well as cross-ownership of...
View ArticleSupreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s Irrationality
Rarely do you see a Supreme Court opinion with as little intellectual merit as Tuesday’s judgment in Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs. Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s reputation as a...
View ArticleThe DOJ’s Case Against Mountain Health Care Demands Challenge
It’s been nearly three months since public comments were filed in the Justice Department’s antitrust settlement with Mountain Health Care. Nicholas Provenzo submitted comments on the Center for the...
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