The class action lawsuit, which names as defendants the National Hockey League, the Canadian Hockey League, the Ontario Hockey League, the Western Hockey League, the Québec Maritimes Junior Hockey League, and each of those leagues’ member clubs, challenges the alleged systematic exploitation of teens pursuing their dreams of playing in the NHL.

In this historic litigation, plaintiffs allege that defendants conspired to: 1) restrain competition for players, rendering them nothing more than the property of the major junior teams that draft them; and 2) compensate those players at artificially suppressed, non-competitive levels. The case was filed by the World Association of Icehockey Players Unions North America Division, as well as two former major junior hockey players, who will seek to represent a class of similarly situated players. For more information, please visit .�� Plaintiffs press release can be accessed at .

About Constantine|Cannon LLP

Constantine|Cannon, with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, has deep expertise in antitrust and complex commercial litigation, whistleblower representation, government relations, securities, e-discovery, and other practice areas.

The firm’s antitrust practice is among the largest and most well recognized in the nation. Constantine|Cannon’s experience spans multiple industries, including healthcare, banking, electronic payments, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, the Internet, and government contracting. To learn more about the firm generally, click .

Constantine|Cannon’s whistleblower practice represents whistleblowers under the ; the whistleblower programs of the IRS, SEC (), CFTC, and DOT; and the various federal and state laws that encourage industry insiders to report evidence of fraud or misconduct. To learn more about Constantine|Cannon’s whistleblower practice, click .

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Look around you – almost everything in your home or office was once on an ocean shipping vessel. Yet this essential area of commerce continues to enjoy one of the oldest exemptions from US antitrust law. Does this loophole keep prices low for consumers? Or does it raise prices for shippers and make supply shocks worse? Hosts Anant Raut and David Golden are joined by Shipping Act expert Melissa Maxman and the American Antitrust Institute’s Kathleen Bradish to debate whether it’s time to deep-six the Shipping Act antitrust exemption.

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This award recognizes Wyatt’s role on the case team for IMCC v. OCEMA et al., a landmark competition case arising under §41102(c) of the Shipping Act.�� The case team, which includes Stephen Cannon, David Golden, Allison Sheedy, Daniel Vitelli, Richard Levine, Janice Johnson, and Osob Samantar, recently won in part its motion for summary decision before the Administrative Law Judge.�� Wyatt is an emerging thought leader on the competition provisions of the Shipping Act, including co-authoring a on its private enforcement provisions.

Wyatt is an attorney in the firm’s Washington, DC office, where he focuses on complex antitrust litigation, government investigations, and counseling.

ABOUT CONSTANTINE CANNON

Constantine Cannon, with offices in��New York,��Washington, D.C.,��and San Francisco, has deep expertise in antitrust and complex commercial litigation, whistleblower representation, government relations, securities, e-discovery, and other practice areas.

The firm’s antitrust practice is among the largest and most well recognized in the nation.��Constantine Cannon’s��experience spans multiple industries, including healthcare, banking, electronic payments, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, the Internet, and government contracting. To learn more about the firm generally, click��.

Constantine Cannon’s��whistleblower practice represents whistleblowers under the��; the whistleblower programs of the IRS, SEC (), CFTC, and DOT; and the various federal and state laws that encourage industry insiders to report evidence of fraud or misconduct. To learn more about��Constantine Cannon’s��whistleblower practice, click��.

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According to Lawdragon, this annual list recognizes top attorneys who represent corporations in cases involving, among other areas, antitrust, financial and securities litigation, intellectual property, and commercial real estate.

Mr. Litwin is a partner in the firm’s New York office, where he focuses on complex antitrust litigation, government investigations, and antitrust counseling.

Earlier this year, Chris McLamb was named to Lawdragon’s “” list and six 91�Թ���lawyers were also recognized in the “” edition.

ABOUT CONSTANTINE CANNON

Constantine Cannon, with offices in��New York,��Washington, D.C.,��and San Francisco, has deep expertise in antitrust and complex commercial litigation, whistleblower representation, government relations, securities, e-discovery, and other practice areas.

The firm’s antitrust practice is among the largest and most well recognized in the nation.��Constantine Cannon’s��experience spans multiple industries, including healthcare, banking, electronic payments, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, the Internet, and government contracting. To learn more about the firm generally, click��.

Constantine Cannon’s��whistleblower practice represents whistleblowers under the��; the whistleblower programs of the IRS, SEC (), CFTC, and DOT; and the various federal and state laws that encourage industry insiders to report evidence of fraud or misconduct. To learn more about��Constantine Cannon’s��whistleblower practice, click��.

Read Constantine Cannon’s Ethan Litwin Recognized as One of the Top 500 Litigators in America by Lawdragon at constantinecannon.com

According to Lawdragon, this annual list recognizes the top attorneys in the nation who represent plaintiffs in securities and other business litigation, antitrust, whistleblower claims, and increasingly complex financial litigation and data privacy invasions.

The list of 91�Թ���honorees includes a diverse group of deeply-experienced attorneys in each of the firm’s offices. In a year where many cases were disrupted due to the pandemic, Constantine Cannon’s efforts have led to significant success in a range of cases.

The following six 91�Թ���attorneys were recognized by Lawdragon:

NEW YORK

Jean Kim, Partner, Antitrust and Commercial Litigation Practice Groups

Taline Sahakian, Partner, Antitrust and Commercial Litigation Practice Groups

SAN FRANCISCO

Eric Havian, Partner, Whistleblower Practice Group

Anne Hayes Hartman, Partner, Whistleblower Practice Group

Marlene Koury, Partner, Whistleblower Practice Group

Mary Inman, Partner, Whistleblower Practice Group

ABOUT CONSTANTINE CANNON

With offices in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and London, 91�Թ��� is one of the largest whistleblower practices in the United States. The firm’s team of dedicated whistleblower lawyers represent whistleblowers under federal and state False Claims Acts as well as the whistleblower programs of the IRS, SEC, CFTC, DOT, and others.

Constantine Cannon��also has deep expertise in practice areas that include antitrust and complex commercial litigation, government relations, securities, and e-discovery. The firm’s antitrust practice is among the largest and most well recognized in the nation. Constantine Cannon’s experience spans multiple industries, including healthcare, banking, electronic payments, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, the Internet, and government contracting.

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.�� The metaverse, shared virtual worlds accessible via the Internet, is the next digital market to attract regulatory scrutiny, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager. The metaverse has come into sharper focus since Facebook changed its name to Meta Platforms two years ago to reflect its bet on the new sector as the successor to the mobile internet. That move has in turn triggered concerns about Meta’s possible dominance.

.�� Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has urged a U.S. regulator to reject Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion deal to take control of U.S. railroad Kansas City Southern, saying it would hurt competition, prompt job losses and disrupt service, a letter seen by Reuters showed. The acquisition, which combines the sixth- and seventh-largest U.S. railroads by revenue, was agreed in 2021. The deal has since closed but Kansas City shares were transferred to a trust and the railroad must operate independently until the Surface Transportation Board, which oversees U.S. freight railroads, approves the transaction.

.�� The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s lone Republican commissioner, Christine Wilson, will step down from her role at the end of March, she said in a letter to President Joe Biden, in which she criticized FTC Chair Lina Khan. In addition, Holly Vedova, head of the agency’s bureau of competition, said she would retire after decades at the agency but did not give a date for her departure, according to a source familiar with her decision. Khan had named Vedova to run the competition bureau in September 2021 as part of her effort to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement.

.�� EU antitrust regulators narrowed their case against Apple, focusing on its App Store rules that prevent developers from informing users of other purchasing options, while dropping another charge related to in-app payments. The European Commission, which acts as the executive for the 27-country European Union, did not say why it had dropped its case against the iPhone maker for requiring developers to use its own in-app payment system. However, the victory for the U.S. tech giant will be short-lived as a new EU tech law known as the Digital Markets Act, which will apply from May, bans both of the Apple practices investigated by the Commission, with fines of up to 10% of a company’s global turnover for infringements.

Edited by Gary J. Malone

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.�� The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which lost a fight in court over whether Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc could buy VR content maker Within, has decided to withdraw the matter from its in-house adjudication. An FTC administrative law judge had scheduled a hearing for the matter for next week, which will now be canceled. But no final decision had been made on whether the agency will go forward at a later date.

.�� Sneaky fees have become a big part of America’s consumer economy. Hertz charges almost $6 a day simply for using a toll transponder in a rental car. Marriott and Hilton add nightly “resort fees” to the bill even at hotels that nobody would consider to be resorts. American, Delta and United list one airfare when you first search for a seat — and then add charges for basic features like the ability to sit next to your spouse. President Biden has announced a crackdown on these fees (which his administration calls “junk fees”), and he devoted a section of his State of the Union address to them.

.�� JetBlue officials are answering questions and giving depositions as the Justice Department presses on with its antitrust review of the company’s plan to buy Spirit, a small low cost rival, with a decision expected within weeks. “We want to be bigger. This is about jobs. This is about growth,” said Joanna Geraghty, JetBlue’s president and chief operating officer, pledging that a bigger JetBlue would put make it harder for the four airlines with 80% of the U.S. market to raise prices.

.�� The U.S. National Football League must face a $6 billion class action alleging it unlawfully limited televised games and drove up the cost of its “Sunday Ticket” package, a U.S. judge ruled. Sunday Ticket lets subscribers watch local and out-of-market games on Sunday, while football fans otherwise in any given market can only see a limited number of games. The case will be divided into two sets of plaintiffs classes – individual Sunday Ticket residential subscribers and commercial establishments, such as hotels and bars. The judge’s ruling said the entire class is likely to continue to be subjected to defendants’ “anticompetitive restraints on telecasts”.

Edited by Gary J. Malone

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