Antitrust & Competition
Antitrust & Competition
The Requests for Production served upon Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC covered documents that, for the most part, were relevant to Plaintiffs’ antitrust and commercial bribery claims in the larger action, and appropriately limited in scope. A federal dis...
Complaint dismissed after court found that there was nothing about the word ‘vanilla’ itself which suggested to the reasonable consumer that the ice cream flavor came exclusively from the vanilla bean. A federal district court in Illinois has granted...
Traveler was given policy and terms and conditions of his coverage, can’t claim misrepresentation on part of travel insurance company. A federal district court in Florida correctly dismissed a consumer’s RICO and unjust enrichment claims against Alli...
Despite Axon v. FTC , and SEC v. Cochran controversies being based on different statutory texts, the cases nevertheless pose overlapping questions which would need to be addressed across three different briefs in the absence of a coordinated briefing...
TR Daily It studies the AT&T breakup and concludes that more regulation can lay the groundwork for more effective antitrust enforcement. Public Knowledge announced the release of a paper that uses a case study of the 1982 breakup of the Bell System a...
Google was subject to personal jurisdiction in the state of Washington for purposes of the consumer protection action. Washington’s Attorney General (AG) Bob Ferguson has announced that a state trial court has ruled that Google has sufficient minimum...
Antitrust & Competition
In one suit, casinos alleged that they did not learn of Defendants’ anticompetitive conduct until approximately one year prior to filing suit, rendering dismissal on statute-of-limitations grounds unwarranted. In two similar cases, lease agreements r...
The Ninth Circuit found that Apple had no duty to disclose the alleged defect. The Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a proposed class action lawsuit brought against Apple related to defects in laptop displays. The plaintiffs’ claims were brough...
Consumer alleged that product was environmentally unsustainable in contradiction to labeling. The federal district court in Chicago granted in part and denied in part national food retailer ALDI’s motion to dismiss a consumer’s claims that its sustai...
The FTC voted to tighten its Endorsement Guidelines to guard against fake reviews and other forms of misleading marketing in light of the increasing use of social media and product reviews to market products. At its open meeting yesterday, the FTC an...
Internet users are allegedly led to believe that browsing is anonymous, while data collection allegedly continues. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he has amended the State of Texas’ lawsuit against Google to include allegations that ...
Seven construction and engineering companies settle claims related to bid-rigging and anti-competitive behavior for contracts for work on U.S. military bases in South Korea. The Department of Justice announced a settlement with seven South Korean com...
TR Daily The policy statement confirms that it is against the law to force parents and schools to surrender children’s privacy rights in order to access educational tools. With commissioners citing the expanded reliance on education technology (ed te...
A periodic roundup of other items of interest to the Antitrust and Trade Regulation community. ANTITRUST NEWS: The Canada Competition Bureau has closed two recent investigations into potentially anticompetitive patent litigation settlement agreements...
Antitrust & Competition
TOP STORY: AAG Kanter highlights consequences of failing to support competition, urges change
Assistant Attorney General Kanter emphasized the importance of protecting competition to keep the market stable in future times of crisis. In remarks at the New York City Bar Association’s Milton Handler Lecture, Assistant Attorney General Jonathan K...
The court held that allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and public trust had “no place” in determining the applicability of legislative immunity. The district court in Denver awarded summary judgment to a small Colorado town, its named officials,...
The franchisor failed to show irreparable harm by a former franchisee who allegedly continued to use the franchise name after the agreement was terminated. The federal district court in Brooklyn has denied a motion for preliminary injunction filed by...
TR Daily Khan asked the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government for increased staff to address a historic surge in mergers. During a House Appropriations financial services and general government subcommittee hearing to discus...
Opening statements by leadership pinned blame for current shortages and inflation on market concentration and lax antitrust enforcement, seek solutions from industry reps and academics. The House Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust, Commercial, and Admin...
The week’s most insightful, intriguing, or entertaining blog posts regarding antitrust and trade regulation issues. Public Knowledge, Independent, But Together: How Antitrust and Regulation Can Work Synergistically To Benefit Consumers , by Al Kramer...
Antitrust & Competition
The court explained, in detail, the meaning of a federal statute excluding rail carriers’ discussions of interline movements as evidence of a conspiracy in an antitrust suit. In reviewing, on interlocutory appeal, an order by the federal district cou...
The £91.5 million ($113 million) merger could lead to a worse deal for homebuyers. Legal tech company Dye & Durham’s proposed acquisition of competitor TM Group may lessen competition in the supply of property search services, the UK Competition and ...
TR Daily Phillips also called for Congress to pass comprehensive privacy legislation. Alvaro Bedoya, a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law School and the founding director of its Center on Privacy & Technology, has been sworn in to fill t...
The European Commission is concerned that the companies may be involved in an illegal cartel. Today the European Commission (EC) announced that it has started carrying out unannounced inspections at fashion companies in several Member States. The EC ...
The car-sharing company took the action after Canada’s Competition Bureau raised concern and opened a formal inquiry. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) car sharing platform Turo Inc. (Turo) has removed the exclusivity provisions from its Terms of Service for Canadi...
The coalition of 24 states wants the FTC to take into account misrepresentations schools have made with respect to their graduates’ earnings. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has been joined by the Attorneys General of 23 other states in respond...
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TOP STORY—7th Cir.: Company that sold watches online was not granted Wisconsin ‘dealership’
The Wisconsin Fair Dealership Law did not protect the company from termination because there was not a substantial enough proportion of revenues or sufficient sunk costs to create a “community of interest.” The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has up...
The court also dismissed the company’s unfair trade practices allegations for failure to plead the required elements of the claims. A mortgage company failed to state a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) claim against an individual...
The defendant’s attorneys argued that jury instructions left each juror individually free to determine which predicate acts, among a “grab bag,” amounted to obstruction. In the Department of Justices’ first ever wage fixing conspiracy case, defendant...
The marketing company agreed to stop claiming that it provided specialized referrals to a wide selection of addictions treatment centers across the country. R360 LLC (R360) and its owner, Steven Doumar, have agreed to settle FTC claims that they fals...
After 32 years in the country, the company has had enough and is taking its golden arches with it. Fast food restaurant franchisor McDonald’s Corporation announced yesterday that it will exit the Russian market and has initiated a process to sell its...
Petition challenges Sixth Circuit’s conclusion that viewing of advertisement was not a transaction covered by state’s consumer protection law. A Michigan consumer alleging that he and over four billion other people were exposed to anti-Semitic messag...