Google is so ubiquitous it's both a noun and a verb, and nearly everyone's search engine of choice. As a result, the landmark antitrust case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and several states (collectively, the...more
4/16/2025
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Antitrust Litigation ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Commercial Contracts ,
Competition ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Contract Terms ,
Data Privacy ,
Data-Sharing ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Google ,
Monopolization ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Remedies ,
Search Engines
Since early September 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) presented its case-in-chief against Google in a lawsuit accusing the company of anti-competitive and monopolistic practices in the complex digital advertising...more
In Federal Trade Commission v. U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc. et al., a federal district court granted private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe's motion to dismiss it from the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC)...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Sept. 21, 2023, sued a private equity firm in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas over an alleged decade-long "roll-up" strategy to consolidate anesthesiology...more
9/27/2023
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Anticompetitive Behavior ,
Antitrust Division ,
Corporate Practice of Medicine ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FTC Act ,
Health Care Providers ,
Industry Consolidation ,
Monopolization ,
Physicians ,
Private Equity ,
The Clayton Act
Federal antitrust enforcement in the agricultural industry had been little more than a whisper for decades. The Obama Administration announced it was making agricultural antitrust enforcement a priority and then held...more