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Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Amazon’s “Buy Box” Legally Boxes Out the Competition

On March 20, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s order to dismiss a consumer antitrust lawsuit filed against Amazon. In the lawsuit styled Hogan v. Amazon.com, Inc., the consumer-plaintiffs...more

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Ninth Circuit Upholds Dismissal Of Antitrust Claims Against Amazon Over Fulfillment Services

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On March 20, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s dismissal of consumer Plaintiffs’ Sherman Act claims against Defendant Amazon, Inc. (“Amazon”), with prejudice, for lack of antitrust...more

Mogin Law LLP

Judge Cuts Unrevealed Slice of FTC’s Amazon Case, But a Lot Remains

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U.S. Judge John H. Chun in Seattle has cut a temporarily undisclosed portion of the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust suit against Amazon.com Inc., but said an eventual trial would focus solely on Amazon’s liability under...more

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Google is an Illegal Monopoly, Federal Court Rules

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Following a nine-week bench trial starting in September 2023 and closing arguments in May 2024, District of Columbia district court judge Amit Mehta ruled on August 5, 2024, that Google illegally maintained its monopoly in...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power

On September 26, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 state attorneys general filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Amazon.com, Inc. under Section 5 of the FTC...more

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The FTC Sues Amazon, Alleging Illegal Monopoly Practices

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On September 26, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 states filed suit against Amazon in the Western District of Washington, alleging the tech giant uses anticompetitive practices to maintain its monopoly power in...more

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Amazon’s Most Favored Nations Policies Scrutinized Under Sherman Act

Antitrust claims in a class action case filed against Amazon in U.S. Federal District Court will largely proceed, after the Court allowed most of the consumers’ pricing claims to survive a motion for summary judgment. The...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

The Wu Khan Clan Enters the Battle Arena

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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

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Sports & Entertainment Spotlight: What the Supreme Court Ruling in Alston v. NCAA Means for the Future of College Sports

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“The NCAA is not above the law.” Those seven words capped Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s searing concurring opinion issued in connection with Monday’s (June 21) unanimous (9-0) U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Alston v. National...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

“Hipster Antitrust” Movement Takes Center Stage in Congress

On Wednesday, July 29, 2020, the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee held a widely publicized hearing in which representatives questioned CEOs from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google about allegedly...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Screening Room Alone Won’t Save AMC-Carmike

Last month, AMC and Carmike announced plans to merge. They would form the nation’s largest cinema chain with over 8,000 screens. Also last month, Napster founder Sean Parker announced a new product—Screening Room—which will...more

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Potential Antitrust Implications of Most Favored Nation Clauses

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Both in the automotive and other industries, parties have turned to most favored nation (MFN) clauses—or clauses having the same effect—as a means to assure the lowest possible input costs. MFN clauses offer pro-competitive,...more

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Second Circuit Continues the Ebook Saga by Affirming Apple’s Role in an Unlawful Price Fixing Conspiracy

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On June 30, 2015, the same day as the launch of Apple’s new streaming music service, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals coincidentally affirmed a district court ruling that Apple conspired with five of the country’s largest...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Second Circuit Affirms District Court Ruling Against Apple in E-Books Price-Fixing Suit, Creating Potential Circuit Split

On June 30, 2015, in a 2-to-1 ruling, the Second Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment in United States v. Apple, Inc. that Apple and five of the largest book publishers in the U.S. entered into a per se illegal...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

What Is the Appropriate Market for Analyzing Amazon’s Alleged Power?

The current debate over whether Amazon holds the power of a monopolist or a monopsonist is likely to be narrowed to one question in a court room: What is the relevant product market that Amazon is allegedly dominating? Since...more

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Copyright Antitrust Claims Against Textbook Publishers Dismissed in Longstanding Gray Market Copyright Case

It is no secret that college textbooks are expensive, and the average student has little recourse when a professor assigns specific books and editions. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, over the years students have...more

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