K. Heidi Smucker

Jul 4, 2024 | globalcompliancenews.com | Teisha C. Johnson |Daniel Graulich |K. Heidi Smucker

In briefOn 20 May, the US District Court for the Central District of California affirmed a seven-figure jury verdict and granted a permanent injunction in a rare Robinson-Patman Act decision. The RPA is an antitrust statute that prohibits certain kinds of price discrimination in goods purchased for resale. The case, LA International Corp. v.

May 30, 2023 | lexology.com | K. Heidi Smucker |David Zaslowsky

Blasket Renewable Investments v. Kingdom of Spain, No. 1:21-cv-3249-RJL (D.D.C. Mar. 29, 2023).[1]Factual BackgroundIn 2007, two Dutch companies, AES Solar Energy Coöperatief U.A. and Ampere Equity Fund B.V. (collectively, the “Companies”), invested in renewable energy projects in order to take advantage of favorable tax incentives offered by the Kingdom of Spain (“Spain”).