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12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 11 – State AGs on the Antitrust Frontline — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
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Until this date, five different class actions regimes applied to consumer protection, antitrust, public health, discrimination, data protection, and environmental law. Each of these regimes had its own specificities...more
Since 2022, the Government of Canada has substantially amended the Competition Act each year for three successive years. Among the many changes are a collection of related amendments which aim to expand access to the...more
One of the most significant legal battles in collegiate athletics recently received another boost. On October 7, 2024, the proposed House v. NCAA settlement received preliminary approval from Judge Claudia Wilken in the...more
2024 saw a significant increase in overall global fines for antitrust enforcement, with total penalties for the jurisdictions surveyed in our report at USD6.7 billion, over double that of 2023 (USD2.9bn) and substantially...more
On 19 December 2024, the Competition Appeal Tribunal ("CAT") handed down its judgment in the first opt-out class action to proceed through to a full trial under the UK antitrust class action regime1. This stand-alone, opt-out...more
On January 21, a Northern District of California Court denied Plaintiff Tevra Brands LLC’s (“Tevra’s”) Motion for a New Trial, after a Jury found that Defendant Bayer Healthcare LLC (“Bayer”) did not monopolize the relevant...more
Regulatory Updates - There have been a couple of noteworthy developments in recent weeks concerning the mandatory climate disclosure regime enacted by California. These developments relate to SB 253 and SB 261, which...more
In June 2024, a California jury awarded plaintiffs nearly $4.8 billion in an antitrust class action against the National Football League (NFL) and DirecTV. In the case, In re National Football League's "Sunday Ticket"...more
On July 26, the plaintiffs in In Re: College Athlete NIL Litigation (a/k/a the House litigation) filed formal settlement documents (i.e., the proposed settlement) with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...more
On April 15, 2024, the United States Supreme Court declined certiorari in the case of National ATM Council, Inc. v. Visa Inc. The central issue raised in the petition was the depth of analysis a court must conduct at the...more
On November 28, 2023 the Canadian government unveiled another round of amendments to the Competition Act that had been previewed in its Fall Economic Statement the previous week. These changes, together with several...more
Germany doesn’t offer claimants a true U.S. or UK style class action regime. Claimants will therefore seek alternative ways to join forces and bundle their claims using the so-called assignment-model as a favoured solution....more
The Remedy of Divestiture: Steves and Sons, Inc. v. JELD-WEN, Inc. For what is believed to be the first time ever, a private plaintiff successfully challenged an already consummated merger under antitrust law and won...more
Das Landgericht Dortmund macht mit Urteil vom 30.09.2020 (8 O 115/14 (Kart)) von der Möglichkeit Gebrauch, die Schadenshöhe in Kartellschadensersatzfällen zu schätzen – ohne ein eigenes Gutachten einzuholen. ...more
Funds — through their portfolio companies — may have a significant antitrust opportunity against the major U.S. railroad companies. ...more
On 18 March 2020 the Nanjing Intermediate People's Court (court) ruled in favor of Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group and its subsidiary (Yangtze Pharma) in an abuse of dominance case against its suppliers of active...more
Kartelle sind schwerwiegende Eingriffe in unsere marktwirtschaftliche Ordnung, die jedes Jahr erhebliche volkswirtschaftliche Schäden verursachen. Wenn sich Wettbewerber untereinander absprechen, um Preise festzusetzen,...more
As widely acknowledged, key problems in the implementation of the Antitrust Damages Directive [2014/104/EU, herein referred to as “Damages Directive”] were found in the vague provisions set therein, such as the rules on...more
The Development: The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruled that parent companies and economic successors can be held liable for damages caused by a subsidiary or acquired company in cartel cases. This significantly broadens...more
Atrium Health (formerly known as Carolinas Healthcare System) scored a big victory in its defense of an antitrust class action on March 4, when the Court ruled that the plaintiffs in Benitez v. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg...more
The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) has issued a resolution providing specific procedures and rules to be considered by private plaintiffs aiming to obtain access to evidence held by the CADE. ...more
In a case of first impression, the Third Circuit recently held in In re Processed Egg Products Antitrust Litigation, No. 16-3795, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 2698 (3d Cir. Jan. 22, 2018), that a direct purchaser of a product,...more
On June 9, 2017, the 9th amendment of the German Act against Restraints of the Competition (GWB) came into effect. The most significant changes affect the liability for cartel fines, the application of merger control and the...more
At first glance, not a stone seems to be left standing. The new sec. 33h ARC hardly bears any resemblance with the old sec. 33 para. 5 ARC, the to date only special limitation rule applicable to cartel damages claims in the...more
Cartelists facing damage claims by their customers regularly defend themselves with the objection of the so-called passing-on defense. According to such objection, a purchaser of the cartel cannot claim damages in so far as...more