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The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  01/8/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  A federal judge has approved a $15 million settlement between Southwest Airlines and members of a class-action lawsuit who allege that the company, along with three other airlines, conspired to limit the number of seats...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  01/2/18
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  A federal judge in San Francisco has refused to dismiss antitrust class action litigation accusing two big South Korean ramen producers of conspiring to fix prices in the United States, clearing the way for a trial.  U.S. District Judge William...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/26/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  Apple is being fined $25,000 per day for missing a court-imposed deadline to produce evidence in a government lawsuit that alleges mobile chip supplier Qualcomm has been imposing unfair licensing terms on the makers of smartphones.  The fine...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/18/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  AT&T’s proposed $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner would normally have had a good chance of passing muster with antitrust officials in Washington.  Disney’s bid to purchase 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion, on the other...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/11/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Lawsuit by Minor Leaguers. The Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit filed by minor league baseball players accusing Major League Baseball of colluding to suppress wages, leaving intact a District Court ruling that dismissed the case.  In a one-sentence announcement...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/4/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. CVS Expands Into Insurance With $69 Billion Aetna Bid.  CVS Health wants to do much more than fill your prescription or jab your arm with an annual flu shot.  The drugstore chain is buying the nation's third-largest health insurer in order to push much deeper into customer care.  The evolution won't...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  11/27/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. AT&T Suit May Herald a New Antitrust Era-Or Trumpian Pique.  The Trump administration's decision to oppose the $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger may be clouded by suspicions of political influence.  But considered on its merits, it could mark a significant departure in antitrust policy, one that might...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  11/20/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  If the government goes to court to block the merger of AT&T and Time Warner, as seems increasingly likely, it may well be the antitrust case of the decade, even without the claims of presidential meddling that have already engulfed...

North American Soccer League Misses Shot Seeking Preliminary Injunction, But Appeals the Ruling

Posted  11/16/17
By David Scupp The North American Soccer League (“NASL”) lost an important preliminary match in court last week when the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York denied the league’s motion for a preliminary injunction that would have ordered the United States Soccer Federation (“USSF”) to designate the NASL as a “Division II” professional soccer league. NASL has appealed the...

Seventh Circuit Strikes Down Injunction, Finding No Duty to Deal in Big Data

Posted  11/14/17
By Margaux Poueymirou Big Data may be revolutionizing companies’ processing of information, but legal disputes over such data management still have to navigate through the shoals of settled antirust principles. At least that’s the message of last week’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that required two companies, CDK Global, LLC (“CDK”)...
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