Nota Bene Episode 98: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Mark on U.S. Antitrust Law for 2020 with Thomas Dillickrath and Bevin Newman
Nota Bene Episode 46: America’s Existential Antitrust Crisis with Thomas Dillickrath
Instapundit: America's IP Laws Need to be "Pruned Back"
$300 Million Dairy Settlement Will Bring Reform, Lawyer Says
The FTC's case against Facebook will be allowed to proceed now that the district court has held its Amended Complaint plausibly alleged violations of Section 2 of the Sherman Act related to Facebook's acquisition of Instagram...more
Texas Attorney General Files Third Amendment in Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google (Texas) - In December 2020, Texas led 17 states in an antitrust suit against Google, which argues that the company abused its monopoly power in...more
The U.S. antitrust laws are slow to keep up with technical innovation and changing marketplaces. Nowhere is that more evident than in the tech sector, where companies and other players in the market do not fit neatly into...more
A New York federal bankruptcy judge provisionally approved an opioid settlement plan on Wednesday that will dissolve Purdue Pharma and require members of the Sackler family (which owns Purdue) to “turn over billions of their...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revised and refiled its complaint against Facebook, once again asserting Facebook throttled competition in the market for “personal social networking services.” The revised complaint...more
Last week was momentous for the Federal Trade Commission. First, the campaign use antitrust to reign in “Big Tech” faced a setback as the United States District Court for District of Columbia dismissed the FTC’s suit against...more
On June 28, 2021, Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted Facebook’s motions to dismiss two parallel antitrust complaints filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a group...more
Columbia University Law Professor Tim Wu has written profoundly and persuasively for decades about anti-competitive behavior in the U.S. tech industry - from Western Union’s telegraph monopoly in the 1860s forward toward the...more
On June 28, while both congressional bodies continue to introduce and consider numerous legislative proposals to “reform” and amend the existing legal analytical framework, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia...more
The Fed’s Open Markets Committee meeting wrapped on Wednesday, and in remarks following the meeting, Fed Chair Powell called the case for fiscal policy right now “very, very strong,”—a not-so-subtle nudge to Congress to act...more
The Trump Administration has focused on competition and the technology sector. First, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a monopolization case against Google. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission and 46...more
The long-awaited Facebook antitrust bomb dropped on Wednesday, with the FTC and attorneys general from more than 40 states accusing Zuck & Co. of “buying up its rivals to illegally squash competition” in D.C. federal district...more
A California appeals court has affirmed a lower court decision requiring Uber and Lyft to “treat their California drivers as employees, providing them with the benefits and wages they are entitled to under state labor law.”...more
Attorney General William P. Barr Announces Publication of Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework - "The Framework provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging threats and enforcement challenges associated with the...more
Here’s a fun little exercise. Pull up a chart of Tuesday's market activity, and see if you can pinpoint the exact moment the White House announced to the world that it was pulling support for another Covid stimulus bill...more
On July 29, 2020, the CEOs of Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple appeared before the Antitrust Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives to answer questions about potentially monopolistic tactics used by the four...more
Paul Singer’s Elliott Management hedge fund revealed a $3.2 billion stake in AT&T and, along with it, a healthy-skepticism of the company’s 2018 purchase of Time Warner and general calls to divest as part of a 24-page letter...more
The Situation: An investigation launched in 2016 by the German competition authority was meant to determine if Facebook was abusing its market position with its imposition of "misleading" data protection policies. The...more
The German antitrust authority (FCO) has ordered Facebook to stop collecting data outside Facebook’s platform without the user’s “voluntary consent.” The decision breaks new ground because it links data protection and...more
Kickflip, which does business under the name Gambit, sued Facebook for allegedly monopolizing the "virtual currency" market used in online games by requiring game publishers to use Facebook credits. It is also alleges...more