{"id":3840,"date":"2009-11-25T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T19:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:47:01","slug":"senators-push-eu-on-antitrust-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/11\/25\/senators-push-eu-on-antitrust-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators push EU on antitrust case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3841\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/justice-scales-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"justice scales\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Led by John Kerry and Orrin Hatch, 59 U.S. senators are <a title=\"urging\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/politicsNews\/idUSTRE5AO00020091125\" target=\"_blank\">urging <\/a>European antitrust regulators to make a decision on the proposed Oracle merger with Sun Microsystems.\u00a0\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Keith Hylton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/hylton_k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Hylton<\/a>, an antitrust law expert,\u00a0says the intervention\u00a0reflects a disproportionate political influence by Sun relative to its importance to the economy.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This sort of intervention by members of Congress is overdue. There should have been a frank dialogue about competition policy differences several months (or maybe years) ago.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Keith Hylton, 617-353-8959, <a href=\"mailto:knhylton@bu.edu\">knhylton@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led by John Kerry and Orrin Hatch, 59 U.S. senators are urging European antitrust regulators to make a decision on the proposed Oracle merger with Sun Microsystems.\u00a0\u00a0 Law Professor Keith Hylton, an antitrust law expert,\u00a0says the intervention\u00a0reflects a disproportionate political influence by Sun relative to its importance to the economy. &#8220;This sort of intervention by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[637,937,1453,2438,2439],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8263,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/8263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}