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• >> STATES OBTAIN $90 MILLION FOR CONSUMERS HARMED BY ALLEGED SEMICONDUCTOR PRICE-FIXING CONSPIRACY SEATTLE - Attorney General Rob McKenna today announced a $90 million nationwide settlement with Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. and Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. (?Samsung?), resolving allegations that Samsung and others major computer chip manufacturers fixed prices of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM). February 10, 2007

• >> PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY GENERAL CORBETT ANNOUNCES SETTLEMENT WITH ACE INSURANCE COMPANY Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced that the Attorney General's Office and the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance had reached a $9 million settlement with ACE, Limited. May 14, 2007

• >> AG GODDARD SETTLES PRICE-FIXING CASE WITH STATE HOSPITAL GROUPS Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced a settlement with the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (AzHHA) and AzHHA Service Corporation. May 23, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL CORBETT NEGOTIATES TWO AGREEMENTS IN UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER'S ACQU Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced that his office has negotiated two agreements that address charitable trusts and antitrust concerns surrounding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's (UMPC) proposed purchase of The Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh, Mercy Primary Care, Inc., Emergency Medicine Association of Pittsburgh, Mercy Physician Group, and Mercy Neurosurgery Group. May 25, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO ANNOUNCES SETTLEMENT TO ENSURE PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICE COMPETITION Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a stellement requiring Rite Aid Corp, Inc., the nation's third largest retail drug store chain, to sell 26 stores to competitors, including eight stores in New York state. June 4, 2007

• >> RITE AID CORP. TO DIVEST FOUR VERMONT STORES AS PART OF ITS MERGER WITH JEAN COUTOU Attorney General William H. Sorrell today announced that Rite Aid Corporation will sell four retail drug stores in Vermont to resolve concerns about its acquisition of the U.S. assets of Jean Coutou Group (PIC) Inc. June 4, 2007

• >> RITE AID TO DIVEST GARDINER STORE, AS ATTORNEYS GENERAL, FTC SETTLE MERGER Attorney General Steve Rowe announced today that as a condition of its acquisition of numerous Brooks and Eckerd retail pharmacy outlets, Rite Aid will be required to divest or spin off the Brooks Pharmacy.... June 4, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL MARTHA COAKLEY REACHES SETTLEMENT WITH DRUG MANUFACTURER IN ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE LAWS Today, Attorney General Martha Coakley, along with the attorneys general of 33 other states and the District of Columbia, entered into a $5.5 million settlement with Warner Chilcott, the manufacturer of the popular oral contraceptive product Ovcon. June 13, 2007

• >> MISSOURI TO RECEIVE MORE THAN $150,000 IN SETTLEMENT OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE LAWSUIT, NIXON SAYS Attorney General Jay Nixon today announced the settlement of a civil law enforcement action against the makers of the popular oral contraceptive Ovcon. June 13, 2007

• >> TERRY GODDARD ANNOUNCES $5.5 MILLION ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE SETTLEMENT Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced a $5.5 multi-state settlement with New Jersey-based Warner Chilcott, maker of the oral contraceptive Ovcon. June 13, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL STUMBO ANNOUNCES $5.5 MILLION SETTLEMENT IN ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE LAWSUIT Attorney General Greg Stumbo today announced the settlement of a civil lawsuit against the makers of the popular oral contraceptive product Ovcon. June 13, 2007

• >> CHAMPAIGN, URBANA CLINICS SUED FOR CONSPIRING TO LIMIT SERVICE TO MEDICAID PATIENTS Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit in Champaign County Circuit Court against Carle Clinic Association, P.C. of Urbana and Christie Clinic, P.C of Champaign, alleging that the clinics violated the Illinois Antitrust Act ... June 14, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL SORRELL ANNOUNCES $5.5 MILLION SETTLEMENT IN ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE LAWSUIT Attorney General William H. Sorrell today announced the settlement of a civil law enforcement action against the makers of the popular oral contraceptive product Ovcon. June 14, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL GANSLER ANNOUNCES SETTLEMENT WITH MAKER OF POPULAR ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today the settlement of a lawsuit against Warner Chilcott Holdings Company III., Ltd., makers of the popular oral contraceptive Ovcon. June 14, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL BLUMENTHAL STATEMENT ON HIGH COURT RULING ENDING CENTURY-OLD ANTITRUST PROTECTION Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he is greatly disappointed and has significant concerns about a U.S. Supreme Court ruling today that strikes a 96-year-old antitrust rule that made it an automatic antitrust violation for manufacturers to require retailers to agree to minimum resale prices for their products. June 28, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO ANNOUNCES $23.3 MILLION SETTLEMENT WITH UBS Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced UBS Financial Services Inc. (UBS) has agreed to pay $23.3 million dollars in the largest ever settlement in the history of fee-based brokerage accounts. July 16, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL BLUMENTHAL ANNOUNCES SETTLEMENTS INVOLVING PERVASIVE BID RIGGING IN HVAC Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced settlements with the two defendants involved in industry-wide bid rigging in the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) industry over the course of several years. July 17, 2007

• >> COURT RULES IN COOPER?S FAVOR IN ENVIRONMENTAL BID RIGGING CASE Consultants charged with conspiring to rig bids and overcharge taxpayers for environmental clean-up work have been ordered to pay $350,000 to the state bringing to $1 million the total amount recovered in the case, Attorney General Roy Cooper announced today. July 30, 2007

• >> NORTH CAROLINA GAS DISTRIBUTOR AGREES TO PAY FINE, CHANGE WAYS A gas distributor accused of illegally conspiring to fix prices and trying to force a Durham gas station to raise its prices by $0.40 a gallon has agreed to change its ways and pay $25,000, Attorney General Roy Cooper said today. August 1, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL MARC DANN SUES GLOBAL INSURANCE BROKER AND NATION?S LARGEST INSURANCE COMPANIES Following a three year long investigation by his office and the Ohio Department of Insurance, Attorney General Marc Dann has filed suit against the world's largest insurance broker, Marsh & McLennan and four of the nation's largest insurance companies and their subsidiaries for alleged violations of the state's anti-trust laws. August 27, 2007

• >> AG KING JOINS 12 STATE EFFORT TO PROTECT FARMERS Attorney General Gary King joined Attorneys General from 12 other states, filing comments with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) calling for the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. to reject the proposed consent decree approving Monsanto Company's acquisition of Delta & Pine Land Company (DPL). August 28, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL GREG STUMBO JOINS EFFORT TO PROTECT KENTUCKY FARMERS Attorney General Greg Stumbo filed comments today asking the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. to reject a propoed consent decree that would approve Monsanto Company's acquisition of Delta & Pine Land Company. August 28, 2007

• >> COMMENTS OF 13 ATTORNEYS GENERAL IN TUNNEY ACT PROCEEDINGS IN U.S. V. MONSANTO ET AL., NO. 1:07-CV-00992 Comments of the 13 Attorneys General in Tunney Act proceedings. August 28, 2007

• >> BLUMENTHAL, SIX OTHER ATTORNEYS GENERAL, SAY MICROSOFT MAINTAINS MONOPOLISTIC POWER IN SOFTWARE MARKET Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today, along iwth five other states and the District of Columbia, filed a report demonstrating that the federal settlement with Microsoft, and court-imposed Microsoft remedies, have failed to adequately reduce Microsoft's illegal monopoly. August 30, 2007

• >> MAINE SETTLES ANTITRUST SUIT OVER PIKE'S ACQUISITION OF BLUE ROCK Attorney General Steve Rowe announced today that his office has resolved antitrust concerns stemming from the December 2005 purchase by Pike Industries, Inc., ("Pike") of Blue Rock Industries ("Blue Rock") of Westbrook, Maine. August 31, 2007

• >> BROWN REACHES ANTITRUST AGREEMENT WITH NATION?S LARGEST SCHOOL BUS OPERATORS Halting the "anticompetitive effects" of a merger between the nation's two largest school buss operators, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced a settlement with First Group, plc (also known as First Student) and Laidlaw Educational Services. August 31, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL MARTHA COAKLEY AND TEN OTHER STATES REACH SETTLEMENT IN SCHOOL BUS MERGER CASE Today, Attorney General Martha Coakley's Office, along with ten other state Attorneys General, settled a case involving an antitrust challenge to the merger of the two largest school bus oeprators in the United States, FirstGroup, pls (which operates as First Student) and Laidlaw International, Inc. October 3, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL BLUMENTHAL ANNOUNCES MULTI-STATE AGREEMENT INVOLVING LARGEST SCHOOL BUS COMPANY MERGER Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced a multi-state antitrust settlement involving the merger of the two largest school bus transportation providers in the United States - FirstGroup and Laidlaw International, Inc. October 3, 2007

• >> ROWE SETTLES SCHOOL BUS MERGER CASE Maine Attorney General Steve Rowe announced today that his office has settled a caseinvolving an antitrust challenge to the merger of the two largest school bus contractorsin the nation, FirstGroup (also known as First Student, Inc.) and Laidlaw International,Inc. Over the past decade, Maine school districts, like their counterparts around theUnited States, have increasingly turned to private contractors to provide transportationto the students and families they serve. October 3, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL ROWE ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF NORTHEAST PETROLEUM MARKET REPORT Today, Maine Attorney General Steve Rowe announced the release of a comprehensiveReport on Petroleum Markets in the Northeast. October 3, 2007

• >> SWANSON, STATE AGS SETTLE SCHOOL BUS MERGER CASE Attorney General Lori Swanson today announced that Minnesota, in cooperation with ten otherstate attorneys general, has settled a case involving an antitrust challenge to the merger of thetwo largest school bus contractors in the nation, FirstGroup (also known as First Student, Inc.)and Laidlaw International, Inc. October 3, 2007

• >> NIXON PROTECTS SCHOOL DISTRICTS, TAXPAYERS IN PROPOSED MERGER OFNATION?S TWO LARGEST SCHOOL BUS CONTRACTORS A proposed settlement with the nation?s two largest school buscontractors will help preserve or encourage competition for student transportationcontracts in Missouri, Attorney General Jay Nixon says. October 3, 2007

• >> AG MILGRAM ANNOUNCES SETTLEMENT OF SCHOOL BUS CO. ANTI-TRUST CASE Attorney General Anne Milgram announced today that New Jersey has enteredinto a settlement agreement that resolves its anti-trust investigation of the proposed merger of thenation?s two largest school bus contractors -- FirstGroup and Laidlaw International Inc. October 3, 2007

• >> STATES REACH AGREEMENT IN LAIDLAW-FIRST GROUP SCHOOL BUS MERGER, OPENDOORS FOR NEW COMPETITORS Attorney General Rob McKenna today announced a settlement that addressesconcerns surrounding the merger of the nation?s two largest school bus contractors. Eleven statesreached an agreement with Laidlaw International, Inc., and FirstGroup plc to help ensure thatschool districts can still receive competitive bids for student transportation. October 3, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL AYOTTE ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF NORTHEAST PETROLEUM MARKETS REPORT Attorney General Kelly A. Ayotte announced today the release of a Report on PetroleumMarkets in New Hampshire and other states in the northeastern United States. October 3, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL STUMBO WINS REMAND IN GAS PRICE GOUGING LAWSUIT AGAINST MARATHON AND SPEEDWAY SUPERAMERICA A Federal court today ruled that Attorney General Greg Stumbo's $89 million lawsuit against Marathon Oil and Speedway SuperAmerica can proceed in state court. October 9, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL SINGER SETTLES INSURANCE BID-RIGGING CHARGES WITH INSURANCE ACE District of Columbia Attorney General Linda Singer today announced that the District has entered into a settlement agreement with ACE, a large insurance carrier that joined an alleged bid-rigging and price fixing scheme devised by insurance broker Marsh & McLennan. December 4, 2007

• >> MCCOLLUM, SINK AND MCCARTY ANNOUNCE $4.5 MILLION INSURANCE SETTLEMENT Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty today announced that Florida and other states have reached a settlement with a large insurance carrier involved in a "pay to play" tactic used with Marsh & McLennan and other insurance brokers. December 4, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL HARDY MYERS SETTLES INSURANCE BID-RIGGING CHARGES WITH INSURER Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers today filed a settlement agreement with another large insurance carrier over charges of improper, fictitious quoting and steering of insurance businesses. December 4, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL ABBOTT REACHES SETTLEMENT WITH COMPANY IN INSURANCE BID RIGGING CASE Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today settled a bid-rigging investigation with commercial insurer ACE Group Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries. December 4, 2007

• >> BLUMENTHAL SUES INTERNATIONAL REINSURANCE BROKER FOR SCHEMES THAT INFLATED INSURANCE COSTS NATIONWIDE Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced an antitrust lawsuit against one of the world's largest reinsurance brokers for anticompetitive practices that illegally inflated insurance costs for insurance companies and consumers nationwide. December 4, 2007

• >> ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE FILES SUIT AGAINST INSURANCE COMPANIES Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr. announced today that his office has filed suit against Allstate Insurance Company, Lafayette Insurance Company, Xactware, Inc., Marshall & Swift/Boeckh, LLC, Insurance Services Office, Inc., State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, USAA Casualty Insurance Company, Famers Insurance Exchanges, Standard Fire Insurance Company and McKinsey & Company for alleged violations of the Louisiana Monopolies Act. December 4, 2007