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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term.  The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -
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U.S. Department of Justice Settles Anti-Steering Suit Against Hospital System; First Such Settlement After Amex SCOTUS Decision

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On November 15, 2018, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice settled a two-and-a-half year long lawsuit against Atrium Health, a North Carolina hospital system formerly known as the Carolinas HealthCare...more

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AmEx Ruling May Have Big Impact On Health Insurance

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The U.S. Supreme Court has decided its first antitrust case in almost three years, establishing a new rule that in the two-sided credit card network market, a plaintiff must analyze both the merchant services side and the...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Amex in Landmark Card Case

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A divided U.S. Supreme Court sided with American Express Company and American Express Travel Related Services Company (Amex) over Ohio, sixteen other states and the United States based on the Court’s application of the theory...more

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Ohio v. American Express: The Supreme Court Credits American Express’s Anti-Steering Provisions

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In a 5-4 decision in Ohio v. American Express, the Supreme Court affirmed that the anti-steering provisions of American Express’s merchant agreement do not violate Section 1 of the Sherman Act....more

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Supreme Court Delivers a Win to American Express in Antitrust Fight over Anti-Steering Rules

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The Supreme Court delivered a big win to American Express last week, finding that the anti-steering rules AmEx imposes on merchants do not violate the federal Sherman Act....more

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Supreme Court Holds American Express’s Antisteering Rules Don’t Violate Antitrust Laws

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On June 25, 2018 the Supreme Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision, that American Express’s antisteering rules do not violate federal antitrust laws. In reaching this conclusion the Court determined that, for two-sided markets like...more

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Supreme Court Rules on Two-Sided Platforms Antitrust Case

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In Ohio v. American Express Co., the United States Supreme Court held that American Express Co. (Amex) did not violate Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by including “antisteering” provisions in its agreements with...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Creates Framework for Analyzing Antitrust Claims for Two-Sided Markets

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The Supreme Court steered its way through high-profile antitrust litigation by the Department of Justice challenging payment industry restrictions. Our Antitrust and Financial Services & Products teams consider the wider...more

A&O Shearman

United States Supreme Court Upholds Rejection of the Government’s Antitrust Challenge to American Express’s Merchant Contracts

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On June 25, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision by Justice Thomas, held that provisions in American Express Company’s (“American Express”) and its operating subsidiary’s contracts with merchants that restricted...more

Hogan Lovells

American Express and two-sided antitrust markets: Coming to a network near you

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On 25 June the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ohio v. American Express that American Express (Amex) did not violate the federal antitrust laws by directing merchants not to "steer" cardholders to alternative credit cards as a...more

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Amex Antisteering Provisions Upheld as Legal by Supreme Court

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On June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that American Express’s contractual “antisteering provisions” did not violate section 1 of the Sherman Act....more

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U.S. Supreme Court Tackles Two-Sided Markets: Ohio v. American Express

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In one of the year's most anticipated antitrust decisions, Ohio et al. v American Express Co., the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that courts considering allegations of anticompetitive behavior by companies that operate...more

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Supreme Court Holds American Express Rule Is Not an Antitrust Violation

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On June 25, 2018, in Ohio v. American Express Co., the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and held that American Express’ “anti-steering rules”...more

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Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson announced on Monday that it will shift some of its motorcycle production overseas “to avoid retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union” in response to the White House’s trade moves....more

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Supreme Court Decides Ohio v. American Express

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On June 25, 2018, the United States Supreme Court decided Ohio v. American Express, No. 16-1454, holding that American Express’s antisteering rules, which prevent merchants from discouraging customers’ use of Amex cards to...more

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July Antitrust Bulletin

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On June 29, 2015, Sysco Corp. announced that it was pulling the plug on its $3.5 billion proposed merger with US Foods Inc. The news comes less than a week after a Washington, D.C., federal judge concluded that the Federal...more

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[Webinar] Health Care Antitrust Trends In 2015: What Is the Government Really Up To? - April 23rd, 12 pm

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The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division continue to stake out an aggressive health care antitrust agenda — and they have “the wind at their backs.” In important recent decisions, two...more

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United States Supreme Court to Revisit State Action Doctrine

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Which exercise of safeguarding the people will prevail: a State’s regulation of professionals providing services to its citizens, or the antitrust agencies’ protection of consumers against anticompetitive conduct? The United...more

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"Antitrust and Competition: Nonmerger Enforcement Activity Heats Up on Both Sides of the Atlantic"

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U.S. and European antitrust agencies had similar enforcement priorities last year, a trend we expect to continue in 2014. Nonmerger enforcement will continue to focus on intellectual property, financial services and...more

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