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Antitrust Enforcement in Energy M&A in the Trump Era — 4 Issues to Watch

As CERAWeek begins in Houston, dealmakers in the energy sector will surely be asking how the second Trump Administration antitrust enforcers will treat energy deals. As a prelude, no industry has a longer history with...more

A&O Shearman

SDNY Judge Refuses To Transfer DOJ Case Against Concert Promoter, Finding Attempt To Unwind A Merger Cleared By Consent Decree...

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On October 3, 2024, United States District Judge Arun Subramanian refused to transfer the DOJ’s monopolization case against two companies in the live entertainment industry (“Defendants”) from the Southern District of New...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Sights and Sounds from the Antitrust Section’s 2023 Spring Meeting

Antitrust practitioners from around the world gathered in Washington, D.C. the week of March 27, 2023, for a series of industry meetings, centered around the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s 71st Annual Spring...more

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Federal Court Allows Price-Fixing Class Action to Proceed Against Universities

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​​​​​​​Seventeen of U.S. News & World Report’s top 25 universities in the nation recently lost their bid to dismiss allegations of an antitrust conspiracy to suppress student financial aid awards. The ruling by the U.S....more

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Poultry Processors Agree to Pay $85 Million to Resolve Allegations of Wage Fixing by DOJ

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After a string of losses by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (the “Division”) in no-poach and wage fixing litigations, including a wage-fixing antitrust case in the physical therapy industry in April, the...more

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Foul Play: DOJ Files Lawsuit and Proposed Consent Decrees with Poultry Processors over Wage Suppression Conspiracy

On July 25, 2022, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland alleging that poultry processors, Cargill Inc. and Cargill...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

How to Navigate the Coming Antitrust Policy Tests

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2021 will be remembered in antitrust law. Not since the 1970s has there been so much chatter over the fundamental purposes of antitrust policy, or such potential for actual sea change. Originally published in Law360 -...more

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DOJ Keeps The Music Playing For ASCAP And BMI

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On January 15th, the Department of Justice announced it has ended its two-year review of the 80-year old consent decrees that govern the operation of the largest music performing rights organizations in the United States:...more

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Antitrust Enforcement Update: Spotlight on Physician Transactions

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At both the state and federal level, antitrust enforcement agencies continue to pursue successful challenges to physician practice transactions. This article summarizes two recent enforcement actions, as well as a new state...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Updated Procedural History of UPMC – Highmark Litigation

Below is a summary of UPMC-Highmark dispute as of March 4, 2019. This information is limited to litigation proceedings with no discussion about prior contracts or negotiations....more

Akerman LLP - Marks, Works & Secrets

DOJ Rejects Modifications of ASCAP, BMI Consent Decrees

On August 4, 2016, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) rejected changes to the 1941 consent decrees with ASCAP and BMI. These decrees have been in place since 1941, when the DOJ settled antitrust claims with ASCAP and BMI...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Beyond Truth, and Toward Repose: Price Increases Following “Merger to Monopoly” Do Not Rekindle Statute of Limitations

Z Technologies Corp. v. Lubrizol Corp., No. 2:12-cv-12206 (6th Cir., May 23, 2014). In February, 2007, Lubrizol Corporation made a “merger to monopoly” acquisition of the assets of a competitor. The acquisition...more

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