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Darren Bush is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law School. Education background includes: B.A. (Economics), 1991, California State University, San Bernardino; Ph.D. (Economics), 1995, University of Utah; J.D., 1998, University of Utah. Professor Bush writes and lectures on antitrust law & economics and regulated and deregulating industries with particular focus on electricity markets. Professor Bush received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah, where he received a Teaching Fellowship, the Graduate Research Fellowship, and an award for outstanding teaching. While completing his J.D. at Utah, he consulted on issues regarding state deregulation of electric utilities, interned at the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, taught various economics courses, and received a Marriner S. Eccles Fellowship in Political Economy. After receiving his J.D., Professor Bush served as an Attorney General's Honor Program Trial Attorney at the Antitrust Division's Transportation, Energy, & Agriculture Section, where his primary focus was the investigation of mergers and anticompetitive conduct in wholesale and retail energy markets. In 2001 Professor Bush returned to Utah as a Visiting Associate Professor, where he taught antitrust, law & economics, business organizations, and professional responsibility and consulted on numerous antitrust matters. To contact: DBush@central.uh.edu

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NOPEC Clarified

The NOPEC Bill, which passed the House, would have repealed the Act of State Doctrine with respect to the petroleum industry. The bill was defeated in the Senate. President Bush (unrelated) threatened a veto.  

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Cartels are evil. (Response to Prof. Zamora)

As you know, the MOST recent lawsuit against OPEC is In Re Petroleum Products Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1886, currently in the Southern District of Texas.  Of course, there are serious obstacles in terms of an antitrust suit against OPEC

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Sue OPEC?

In an op-ed published in the LA TIMES, Darren Bush and co-authors Harry First and John J. Flynn advance the notion that the brazen actions of the OPEC cartel run afoul of U.S. antitrust laws.
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Response to David Crump

Dear David, 

Of course the DOJ had clients.  We called them “the people.”

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Being a lawyer is NOT about intellectual debate??

I read Stracher’s piece this morning, and was devastated to discover that being a lawyer is not about intellectual debate. 

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Antitrust in Dallas

A letter to four ranking Congressmen gets to the heart of the antitrust issues surrounding the supercharged plans involving airfields in Dallas.

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