Pillsbury puts the Biden Administration’s antitrust agenda in perspective.
White House is backing the most aggressive antitrust agenda in generations.
Constrained by legal precedent, antitrust officials adopt...more
11/16/2021
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In this election cycle, technology and internet policy is a persistent factor across multiple issue areas. With implications for national security, economic equality, infrastructure and market regulation, the next...more
11/4/2020
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Internet ,
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In Ixchel Pharma, LLC v. Biogen, Inc., the court addresses “an important question of California law, potentially affecting all contracts in California that in some way restrain a contracting party from engaging in a...more
As COVID-19 fuels technological adoption and adaptation in all walks of life, the CCPA and New York SHIELD Act are front and center in the minds of both government enforcers and the private plaintiffs’ bar.
The increased...more
One month into the declaration of a national emergency, the flood of coronavirus-related consumer class action litigation can be grouped into several distinct categories.
Consumer class action suits to date have primarily...more
4/17/2020
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Innovation is prized in the growing space of the Internet of Things (IoT). But an innovative product design is not enough, and potential pitfalls abound. As demonstrated in a report published by the Federal Trade Commission...more
Over the past few years, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has provided guidance regarding mobile platforms and app providers’ practices of collecting data about consumers’ locations through their mobile devices, with a...more
Continuing its string of recent pro-arbitration decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision enforcing class action waivers in arbitration agreements, even where the plaintiff’s cost of proceeding on an individual...more
On November 28, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that it sent letters to 22 hotel operators warning them that their online reservation sites may violate the law by misrepresenting hotel room prices. In...more