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The House Judiciary Committee Takes on Big Tech

Proskauer - Minding Your Business on 3/10/2021

“Mark my words: Change is coming. Laws are coming.” That was the warning David Cicilline (D-RI) – the House Judiciary Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law Subcommittee Chairman – gave on February 25th at the first in...more

Financial Daily Dose 12.1.2020 | Top Story: GM Adjusts Deal with Nikola, Won’t Take Stock in E-Truckmaker

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/1/2020

Mere months after an announced major investment in start-up electric truck company Nikola (and the subsequent claims that the company had “exaggerated its capabilities), General Motors announced this week that it had...more

District of Massachusetts Reaffirms Broad Defense of Filed Rate Doctrine

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel on 7/16/2019

An important legal doctrine for companies that buy and sell in regulated markets is the “filed rate” doctrine, which limits legal challenges to rates determined by regulators such as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...more

Emerging Technologies Washington Update May 2019 #3

McGuireWoods Consulting on 5/17/2019

This Week: House passes disaster aid package for hurricane recovery in Puerto Rico, the Senate Commerce advanced two bills aimed at improving broadband access, The President signed an Executive Order on Securing the...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 7/19/2018

OMB official Kathleen Kraninger is likely to face serious questions as she takes to the Hill today to begin confirmation hearings for her surprise nomination to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Why? Her lack of...more

Is Antitrust Law a Viable Substitute for Net Neutrality?

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/8/2017

In April 2017, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai issued a Notice of Proposed Order, Restoring Internet Freedom, seeking to reverse the FCC’s previous adoption of “net neutrality” principles in its March 2015 Open Internet Order. Net...more

Second Circuit Blazes New Trail in Set-Top Box Cases: Cable Service and Boxes Are Not Separate Products

Proskauer - New Media & Technology on 9/8/2016

Since 2008, cable customers have been suing cable operators across the country claiming operators violate the antitrust laws by forcing customers to lease set-top boxes from the operator to access “premium” cable services. ...more

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