On April 13, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, Health Care Division (“BC”) issued a 37-page Advisory Opinion (“Opinion”) to TriState Health Partners, Inc. (“TriState”), a physician-hospital organization based in Hagerstown, Maryland, stating that the BC would not recommend that the Commission challenge TriState’s proposed clinical integration program under the antitrust laws. The Opinion is noteworthy because it provides the most detailed discussion
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Antitrust and Franchising: Conspiracies Between Franchisors and Franchisees Under Section 1
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A 1993 article in this Journal reported, without fanfare, a federal district court ‘s holding that a “franchisor and franchisee were legally incapable of conspiring” in restraint of trade.1 Since that time, two other district courts and two courts of appeals have echoed that decision.2
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Reprinted with permission from the Franchise Law Journal (American Bar Association), Volume 23, Number 1, Summer 2003
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The GLBA only applies to individuals who obtain financial products or services primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, and does not apply to companies or individuals who obtain financial products or services for business, commercial, or agricultural purposes.
On November 12, 1999, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) became law, bringing important changes to the regulation of consumer privacy protection in the financial services industry. Title…
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