On October 31, 2023, a Missouri jury awarded the plaintiff class in Sitzer/Burnett v. Nar, et al a $1.78 billion damages verdict against several real estate brokerage companies and the National Association of Realtors, based...more
On June 25, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in the closely watched class action case, Ramirez v. TransUnion LLC, No. 20-297. The Court’s 5 to 4 decision, authored by Justice Kavanaugh, promises to have...more
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In NCAA v. Alston, the Supreme Court confirmed that the NCAA’s ability to restrict the amount of educational benefits student-athletes may receive from enrolling institutions is limited. The authors offer reflections on the...more
On April 22, 2021, the Supreme Court resolved a circuit split as to the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to seek restitution in a federal court action under the Federal Trade Commission Act (“Act”) without first obtaining...more
Last week in the Supreme Court, the much awaited oral argument in NCAA v. Alston lived up to its billing with nearly every justice participating in the questioning, putting the lawyers for the NCAA, plaintiffs, and the Acting...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, enacted at the end of 2020 includes the No Surprises Act (“Act”), amending the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the Public...more
The recent change in Administrations and control of Congress may well usher in a new era of more energetic antitrust enforcement as well as substantive changes to the federal antitrust laws. Such changes would likely affect...more