For only the second time in its history, the commission imposed "interim measures", ordering IMS Health immediately to license its copyright to competitors and describing a clear abuse of a dominant market position.
Although federal courts in some states, such as Wisconsin and Texas, have imposed interim remedies to assist those who, for example, do not have one of the narrow forms of photographic identification required to cast a ballot, reports from the early voting period suggest that misinformation is widespread.
Under the Competition Act 1998, Ofcom can impose interim measures in order to "prevent significant damage to a particular person or category of person".
It will give the authorities formidable powers to impose fines of up to 10% of turnover, to mount dawn raids on business and domestic premises and to impose interim measures stopping illegal agreements.The director-general of fair trading, however, provided little indication that he was keen to use such powers against car makers when he gave evidence to the select committee.
When the FCC licenses spectrum for mobile use, it typically imposes interim and final network performance (i.e., "buildout") requirements to prevent speculators from "warehousing" spectrum licenses (i.e., letting spectrum lie fallow while the licensee seeks to sell it for a profit).
The most effective solution is to impose interim deadlines, effectively breaking a larger goal up into discrete sub-goals spaced out strategically in time.
Today, Lancaster magistrates imposed an interim ban on him for a separate matter in which he failed to provide information when his car was clocked speeding in Morecambe.
The department, which in 2009 imposed an interim ban that is soon due to expire, now plans a 20-year moratorium on new mines.
Last year, a federal appeals court found that the nominating system for electing State Supreme Court justices was unconstitutional, and imposed an interim process of direct primary elections.
The scientists wanted to publish their paper at the well-respected Usenix Security Symposium in Washington DC in August, but the court has imposed an interim injunction.
A court in Brussels has referred a case submitted by several claimants to the European Court of Justice and imposed an interim measure blocking Uefa from activating phase two of its rules to cut the deficit clubs are permitted from €45m to 30m.
