On December 23, 2020, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2020, which includes a provision that would repeal the limited federal antitrust immunity currently granted to certain...more
On June 13, 2019, the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction blocking the proposed merger of North Dakota healthcare providers Sanford Health, Sanford Bismarck (collectively, “Sanford”)...more
6/18/2019
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Antitrust Division ,
Appeals ,
Competition ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Evidence ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospital Mergers ,
Hospitals ,
Mergers ,
Monopolization ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Rebuttal
The DOJ Antitrust Division’s high profile, unsuccessful attempt to block the AT&T/Time Warner merger ended on February 26, 2019 after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed the trial court’s decision to allow...more
4/10/2019
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Appeals ,
Arbitration ,
AT&T ,
Competition ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Mergers ,
Remedies ,
Self-Help Remedies ,
Television Broadcast Stations ,
Time Warner ,
Vertical Mergers
On September 27, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a district court decision that the Federal Trade Commission and the state of Pennsylvania could not block the merger of two hospital systems,...more