Antitrust
Press Releases>
- CFA Statement on Apple E-Book Price Fixing Trial, 06/20/2013. (PDF)
- Consumer Group Supports DOJ Efforts to Restore Competition to the E-Book Market, 06/25/12. (PDF)
- Proposed Universal-EMI Merger Violates Anti-Trust Laws, 06/14/12. (PDF)
- CFA Calls on Senate and Dept. of Justice to Protect Consumers from E-Book Price Fixing, 04/11/12. (PDF)
- Consumer Group Calls on Antitrust Authorities to Block Anticompetitive Pricing, 04/10/12. (PDF)
- TicketDisaster.org Statement on DOJ Settlement of Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger, 01/26/10. (PDF)
- Public Interest and Live Event Industry Groups Announce New Coalition to Fight Anti-Competitive Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger, 12/16/09. (PDF)
- Public Interest Groups Call on Justice Department to Block Ticketmaster/LiveNation/Comcast Merger, 12/1/09. (PDF)
- National Consumer Protection and Industry Groups Issue Joint Statement on the Ticketmaster/Live Nation Merger Investigation, 11/19/09. (PDF)
- CFA Files Supreme Court Brief to Stop Industry Efforts to Increase Consumer Prices and Undermine Retail Competition, 02/27/07. (PDF)
Studies
- The Role of Antitrust in Protecting Competition, Innovation and Consumers as the Digital Revolution Matures: The Case against the Universal-EMI Merger and E-Book Price Fixing, 06/14/12. (PDF)
- Bulk Commodities and the Rails: Still Crazy After All These Years, 05/01/09. (PDF)
Testimony and Comments
- CFA Comments to DOJ on Proposed Final Judgment to Defendants Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, 06/25/12. (PDF)
- CFA Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee: E-Book Price Fixing Violates the Antitrust Laws and Harms Consumers, 04/09/12. (PDF)
- Consumer Groups Oppose Express-Medco Merger, 09/20/11. (PDF)
- Letter from CFA and Consumer Groups to Senator Nelson in support of Amendment, SA 4361, to the American Workers, State and Business Relief Act, 06/17/10. (PDF)
- Letter from CFA and Consumer Groups to Senator Reid in support of Discount Pricing Consumer Protection Act, 06/08/10. (PDF)
- Letter from CFA and Consumer Groups to President Obama Re: Expanding Access to Affordable Generics, 03/10/10. (PDF)
- Consumer Groups Support H.R. 3596, the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act, 10/20/09. (PDF)
- Consumer Groups Express Concern to DOJ Over Ticketmaster and Live Nation Merger, 10/09/09. (PDF)
- Testimony of Dr. Mark Cooper on the Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009, 05/19/09. (PDF)
- Testimony of Dr. Mark Cooper on FTC Reauthorization, 09/12/07. (PDF)
- Testimony of CFA’s J. Robert Hunter before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the McCarran-Ferguson Act: Implications of Repealing the Insurer’s Antitrust Exemption, 06/21/06. (PDF)
- Testimony of CFA's Travis Plunkett before the Senate Banking Committee on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Five Years after Passage 07/13/04. (PDF)