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Antitrust Matters Episode 6: The NCAA

Antitrust Matters provides engaging and timely conversations about competition policy in the digital age. Antitrust has always mattered to consumers and businesses, and to antitrust lawyers and economists, but today it also is in the political and public discourse more than ever. From the prices we pay for food, travel, financial services, payments to the way we interact daily using digital apps and platforms,...

New York Senate Amends Groundbreaking Antitrust Bill

New York's Groundbreaking Antitrust Bill: An Overview

With the New York State legislative session to adjourn in a few weeks, the State Senate this week returned to work on New York鈥檚 groundbreaking antitrust bill. On , and again on , the Senate amended New York鈥檚 proposed , the trailblazing legislation that would reshape the...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.   .聽 The confirmation of a third Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission broke a partisan deadlock at the agency. That鈥檚 good news for Lina Khan, the agency鈥檚 chair and a Democrat. It is also a test. With the F.T.C.鈥檚 new Democratic...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .聽 A U.S. Senate committee passed a bill that could expose the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and partners to lawsuits for collusion on boosting crude oil prices. The No Oil Producing or Exporting Cartels (NOPEC) bill sponsored...

The Sherman Act Protects Competitors, the Ninth Circuit Reminds in Real Estate Case

By Harrison McAvoy A recent decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit points out that the antitrust laws鈥� protections extend not just to end consumers, but to any person or business in a supply chain, and provides guidance to litigants on standards for pleading a per se group boycott under Section 1 of the Sherman Act. In PLS.com v. National Association of Realtors, the Ninth...

Antitrust Matters Episode 5: The Intersection of Blockchain and Antitrust

Antitrust Matters provides engaging and timely conversations about competition policy in the digital age. Antitrust has always mattered to consumers and businesses, and to antitrust lawyers and economists, but today it also is in the political and public discourse more than ever. From the prices we pay for food, travel, financial services, payments to the way we interact daily using digital apps and platforms,...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .聽 Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk's initial 9% stake purchase in Twitter Inc is being probed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), The Information reported. The FTC is looking into whether Musk complied with an antitrust...

Despite Setbacks, Department of Justice Charges Full Speed Ahead in Litigating Labor Antitrust Cases

By James J. Kovacs In the course of 24 hours, juries returned non-guilty verdicts for defendants in two criminal wage fixing and market allocation cases brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (鈥淒OJ鈥�). Despite these setbacks, the DOJ shows no signs of slowing down its antitrust investigations and enforcement efforts in labor markets. In聽United States v. Jindal et al., the DOJ聽聽that the former...

The Danger of Waiting for a Finding of Anticompetitive Behaviour: Gemalto Sees its Claim Against the Smart Card Chips Cartel Time Barred

By Simon Yeung and Georgiana Stables

The secrecy of cartels鈥攁nd victims鈥� consequent limited knowledge of them鈥攈as led the English courts to relax the requirement that claimants plead detailed statements of case at the outset of litigation. The flipside is that, under the 鈥渟tatement of claim鈥� test, the limitation clock may start to run sooner than claimants think.

In January 2022, the question of whether a...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .聽 Specialty chemical maker Prince International Corp won U.S. antitrust approval to merge with rival Ferro Corp on condition that it sell three facilities, the Federal Trade Commission said. EU antitrust regulators cleared the deal in...