Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
.聽 A federal judge in Chicago has ordered T-Mobile US to face a lawsuit from AT&T and Verizon subscribers who claim the mobile communication giant's deal for rival Sprint hurt competition and caused them to pay billions...
2023 Draft Merger Guidelines: A Conversation with Professor Thomas Greaney
Posted 10/20/23
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,...
Inside the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines: A Conversation with Michael Kades
Posted 10/3/23
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,...
Common Ownership in the Draft Merger Guidelines: A Sea Change for Index Funds?
Posted 10/2/23
By Wyatt Fore[Draft] Guideline 12: Acquisitions of partial control or common ownership may in some situations substantially lessen competition.[1]
Portfolio investors may soon find that their investments could be the subject of increased antitrust scrutiny, resulting from new federal enforcement guidelines.
On July 19, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
.聽 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission warned brand-name drugmakers they could face legal action if they improperly list patents with federal health regulators and said it will scrutinize any improper listings. "Improperly listing patents in the Orange Book...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
.聽 Kraft, Kellogg and other major food-processing manufacturers have won a federal court ruling that will let them use key export data at an antitrust trial seeking more than $110 million in damages from egg...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
.聽 The American Red Cross and U.S. Justice Department are quarreling over the scope of U.S. antitrust law, after the federal agency backed a key legal claim from a biomedical company suing the humanitarian group. In a court...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
.聽 Nonprofit hospital system AdventHealth has sued data analytics company MultiPlan in U.S. court, accusing it of leading a price-fixing conspiracy that underpaid healthcare providers billions of dollars for out-of-network...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
. JetBlue and Spirit in U.S. court called a consumer lawsuit over the airlines' merger plan "vague" and "speculative" and said it should be rejected as the U.S. Justice Department pursues a case against the $3.8 billion...
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.
.聽 A U.S. judge on Thursday said the governing body for American intercollegiate sports must face a pair of class actions in California that claim curbs on compensation for thousands of volunteer coaches violated federal...
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,...