SAN FRANCISCO With a high-profile criminal conviction in the government’s price-fixing case against LCD manufacturer AU Optronics Corp. in the balance, federal prosecutors in San Francisco are asking a judge to bar former Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal from representing one of the company’s executives in post-trial appeals. In a letter filed with U.S. District Judge Susan Illston on Friday, Peter Huston, the assistant chief of DOJ’s Antitrust Division in S.F., said the government plans to raise “various ethical issues” to Katyal joining the case. (Hat tip: Law 360.)
Back in March, prosecutors scored a major trial victory in the antitrust case against AUO, one of the leading manufacturers of thin-film liquid crystal displays used in computers and televisions. A jury found the company and two of its top executives, President Hsuan Bin Chen and former Executive Vice President Hui Hsiung, guilty in a $500 million price-fixing conspiracy.
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