Toronto’s 5-cent bag tax illegal, says advocacy group

Source: Toronto Star

Alyshah Hasham Staff Reporter The five-cent plastic bag levy that is dividing city council is illegal price-fixing, according to a right-wing tax advocacy group. The Toronto Taxpayers Coalition says they have filed a complaint with the federal Compe ...
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El Al settles U.S. price-fixing case

Source: Haaretz

this story is by El Al Israel Airlines has agreed to pay $15.8 million to settle a class-action suit in New York over a claim that the company and 38 other carriers engaged in price-fixing in the United States on air carg ...
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Apple Fires Back At DoJ Over eBook Price Fixing

Source: Slashdot

An anonymous reader writes "CNN takes a look at Apple's response to the Department of Justice's investigation into eBook price fixing . The filing 'cuts the government's case to shreds' while at the same time not bot ...
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LETTERS: Fiddle tradition lives on; cartoon criticized; PN-G turf dispute has deeper roots; capitalism has changed

Source: Beaumont Enterprise

His direct descendent, Ellen Walker Rienstra of Beaumont, whose mother was a Hooks, for many years has been a violinist with the Symphony of Southeast Texas, where a chair is endowed in her honor by the Lipscom ...
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Apple to DOJ: Bite me

Source: Hacker News

FORTUNE -- I haven't had so much fun reading legal documents since the Watergate trials. But what makes Apple's (AAPL) response, filed Tuesday, such a great read is the clarity and precision with which it cuts the government ...
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MacOS KenDensed: MacOS KenDensed: Apple’s Patent Lawsuit & Antitrust Shuffle

Source: The Mac Observer

Apple and Samsung didn’t kiss and make up this week, despite the hopes of Judge Koh. Windows RT might turn out to be a great iPad seller, Apple thinks the DOJ is lame for pushing its ebook price fixing law ...
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Applesauce: All Things Apple

Source: RedOrbit

Apple made news across a broad spectrum of headlines this week. They’ve continued their battle in court against Samsung, stubbornly refusing to cede power or control. It’s interesting enough, if you’re the kind of pe ...
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Plymouth Herald commented Launch of campaign for ciggies in plain packaging

Source: This Is Plymouth

A CAMPAIGN for cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging was launched in Plymouth yesterday. School children, local councillors and a city MP all put their weight behind removing the last legally allowed form of tobacco advertising. Smokefree South Wes ...
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Apple's Response to the E-Book Price-Fixing Lawsuit

Source: The Stranger

The Government starts from the false premise that an eBooks “market” was characterized by “robust price competition” prior to Apple’s entry. This ignores a simple and incontrovertible fact: before 2010, there was no real competition, there was only Amazo ...
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