TY - BOOK AU - Knox,Ron TI - Obama trials: the US antitrust agencies in the courtroom, 2009-2017 PY - 2017///] CY - London, UK PB - Law Business Research KW - United States KW - Department of Justice KW - Antitrust Division KW - Federal Trade Commission KW - Antitrust law KW - Cases KW - Consolidation and merger of corporations KW - Law and legislation KW - Actions and defenses N1 - aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 373-385) and index; Introduction -- Changes and H&R Block -- AU Optronics -- Bazaarvoice -- Steris/Synergy -- The healthcare challenges -- American Express -- Staples/Office Depot -- McWane -- Sysco/US Foods -- Apple -- Conclusion. N2 - This essay collection describes the lawsuits and courtroom battles that have defined the antitrust legacy of President Barack Obama. Built around Obama's campaign trail promise to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement in the US, the book explores in a dozen chapters whether and how that promise was kept--from the early structural reorganization of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, to the near-unprecedented string of courtroom victories by it and the Federal Trade Commission.--from the publisher website ER -