• Membership:  The Section had 172 members in 2009-2010, 19 of whom served on the Section Council.

• Section Programs: The Section presented the following programs in 2009-2010:
  
  
• September 24, 2009: “The Interface between the Obama Antitrust Division and the Recession”
  Molly Boast, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Matters in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice
  
  
• October 14, 2009: “The Economic Analysis of Collusion (Price-fixing and Bid-rigging) with a Digression on Estimating the Effect of a Merger on Prices in a Bid Market”
  Frederick R. Warren-Boulton, Ph. D., a principal at MiCRA (Microeconomics Consulting and Research Associates, Inc.)
  
  
• November 10, 2009: “Pay-for-Delay Agreements in the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Recent Legislative and Executive Branch Initiatives”
  Scott Hemphill, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
  
  
• January 13, 2010: “Hard-Core Violations: The Criminal Investigation / Prosecution Process and Civil Consequences”
  Kevin Culum, Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division U.S. Department of Justice
  William Michael, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  Richard Lockridge, Partner, Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P
  
  
• March 24, 2010: “The EC – A New Frontier For Competition Damage Claims – Intel And Beyond”
  Anthony Maton , Hausfeld & Co LLP-European Office, London, UK
  Howard Bergman, Assistant General Counsel, 3M
  
  
• May 19, 2010: "Developments in Antitrust Law: The Year In Review"
  Thomas Cotter, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
  Susan Stephan, BenePartum Law Group, P.A., and Adjunct Faculty, Hamline University School of Law
  William Sippel, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP, and Adjunct Faculty, William Mitchell College of Law
  Michael Lindsay, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, and Adjunct Professor, University of St. Thomas Law School
  
  
• On March 5, Kenneth C. Baseman, a principal with MiCRA (Microeconomics Consulting and Research Associates, Inc.), presented to the Section his paper on loyalty rebates and bundling, entitled “Loyalty, Exclusion and Antitrust.” 
  
  
• In addition to these Section programs, on May 7, 2010 at the MSBA Art, Entertainment and Sports CLE Institute, Section Secretary Treasurer Ryan Marth, together with Matthew Salzwedel presented:

  “Antitrust, Embroidery and the NFL: The Ramifications of Supreme Court Review of American Needle”

• Website and practicelaw.org:
  
  The Section’s website (http://www2.mnbar.org/sections/antitrust/index.asp) has served as a central information point for all Section activities, programs, practice-related links, publications of interest, Section reports, bylaws, and membership rosters. 
  
  
• Council Meetings:
  
  Council meetings were held on the following dates:
  
  June 10, 2009
  August 14, 2009
  September 9, 2009
  November 16, 2009
  December 10, 2009
  January 7, 2010
  March 10, 2010
  
  
• Annual Meeting:
  The Section’s annual meeting was held on May 19, 2010.
• Election Results:
  
  The members attending the annual meeting elected the following officers and council members to serve terms from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011:
  
  Officers:
  Chair:  Craig Coleman
  Vice-Chair:  Ryan Marth
  Secretary/Treasurer:  F. Matthew Ralph
  Past Chair: W. Joseph Bruckner
  
  Council Members:                                               
  Craig Davis
  Richard Duncan
  Brian Fischer
  Dan Gustafson
  Nancy Hagerty
  Michael Jacobs
  Mark Jacobson
  Bethany Krueger
  Michael Lindsay
  Jim Long
  Kevin Magnuson         
  Carol Peterson
  Tom Sheran
  Heidi M. Silton 
  Stacey Slaughter
  Cathy Smith     
  
  
• The Section's MSBA Assembly Representative for 2010-2011 will be Mark Jacobson.
  
  
• Fiscal Status:
  
  The Section began FY 2009-10 with a positive balance of $4256.06, of which $3186.17 was invested in CDs held at US Bank. Total revenues for the fiscal year-to-date (March 30, 2010) are $7845.00, which includes $3352.50 in membership dues and $4480.00 in meeting fees.
  
  Total expenses are $6063.61, of which the largest portions are reimbursements for expenses such as speakers' travel arrangements ($2044.50), catering for CLE programs ($2645.05), MSBA Administrative Fees ($798.00) and internal Section invoices ($434.62).
  
  In 2009-2010, the Section saved a considerable amount in expenses by inviting member firms to host our programs at their conference and meeting facilities, instead of renting an area hotel meeting/banquet room or other meeting facility.  We are very grateful to the Section members’ firms who hosted our programs this year. 
  
  Thus, the Section experienced positive cash flow in FY 2009-10 of $1781.39. This leaves the Section in a strong financial position, with a fiscal-year-to-date balance of $6037.45, which includes $2851.28 in the Section's cash account and $3186.17 in CDs.
  

 

 

Submitted by W. Joseph Bruckner, Chair