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Old Nov 5, 2013 | 12:55 pm
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Vicki Bryan weighs in with her vast knowledge of antitrust law:

“Justice will be unable to convince a judge the merger is anticompetitive, especially given that AMR and US Airways offer far less competitive overlap versus all three previous mergers approved by Justice,” according to a report last week by Vicki Bryan, an analyst at GimmeCredit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/bu...rger.html?_r=0

Like many people who aren't conversant in US antitrust law, she continues to dwell on the irrelevant: that the prior mergers were not challenged is irrelevant to whether this merger would substantially lessen competition.
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