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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  04/26/22
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

U.S. antitrust authorities clear Prince, Ferro specialty chemical deal.  Specialty chemical maker Prince International Corp won U.S. antitrust approval to merge with rival Ferro Corp on condition that it sell three facilities, the Federal Trade Commission said. EU antitrust regulators cleared the deal in...				 
				 				
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FTC Chair Khan Squares the Circle With an “Interdisciplinary Approach” to Protecting Privacy and Competition

				
Posted  04/21/22
										

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													J. Wyatt Fore	
												
									

				 
				
				 				Government efforts to protect competition and privacy could become more closely aligned under an “interdisciplinary approach” to enforcement announced by Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan.

It’s no secret that a handful of major tech firms touch nearly every aspect of modern life.  Nor is it a surprise that their business models often rely on collecting and monetizing user information in order to...				 
				 				
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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  04/18/22
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

 

Reducing inequality, hiking minimum wage could boost U.S. economy -White House.  Boosting enforcement of antidiscrimination and antitrust laws, raising the federal minimum wage and higher unionization rates could substantially boost U.S. economic growth, a new report by President Joe Biden's top...				 
				 				
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Mastercard’s Digital Fee Hike Means Double Trouble for Merchants

				
Posted  04/13/22
								

				 
				
				 				By Owen Glist

As part of the annual spring ritual of interchange increases and new network fees, Mastercard has announced that it is more than doubling its “Digital Enablement Fee.”  This hefty price hike raises both the cost of digital transactions and antitrust concerns.

Mastercard’s Digital Enablement Fee is essentially a tax the network imposes for “enabling” online transactions, also known as...				 
				 				
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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  04/12/22
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

 

Bidding War for Spirit Could Undercut Power of Four Big Airlines.  When the dust settled on a big round of airline consolidation nearly a decade ago, four large companies came to dominate the industry. A new merger scramble could challenge that cozy arrangement. A brewing fight over the future of...				 
				 				
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Antitrust Division Urges NLRB to Protect Competition in the Gig Economy by Redefining “Employee”

				
Posted  04/8/22
								

				 
				
				 				By Sarah Bayer, Janice Johnson, and Margaux Poueymirou

The rise of the “gig worker” is creating novel and significant issues that are not going to be resolved without a lot of heavy lifting by both antitrust enforcers and labor regulators.

The Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently dealt with one of these issues—how to protect competition in the “gig...				 
				 				
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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  04/5/22
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

 

U.S. drops price-fixing charges against chicken executives after mistrials.  The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal court in Denver to drop price-fixing charges filed against five executives of chicken producing companies after two mistrials in the case focused on competition in the $65 billion...				 
				 				
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Antitrust Matters Episode 4: The Whistleblower

				
Posted  04/1/22
								

				 
								 				

Antitrust Matters provides engaging and timely conversations about competition policy in the digital age. Antitrust has always mattered to consumers and businesses, and to antitrust lawyers and economists, but today it also is in the political and public discourse more than ever. From the prices we pay for food, travel, financial services, payments to the way we interact daily using digital apps and platforms,...				 
				 				
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Quick Facts About Antitrust Bills Introduced in Congress (Part 2 – Bills in the Senate Targeting “Big Tech”)

				
Posted  03/31/22
								

				 
				
				 				By Matthew Moore and Taline Sahakian

The national debate over how far to regulate the technology industry is resulting in some potentially significant bills that may very well pass Congress this year.

In Part 1 of this series on antitrust bills being considered by Congress, we began our review of Senate bills that seek to reform antitrust enforcement in significant ways.  In this post, we provide a rundown of...				 
				 				
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Court Rules Work Product Doctrine Can Pre-Exist Attorney Client Relationship

				
Posted  03/30/22
								

				 
				
				 				By Alysia Solow and Alan Schwartz

Plaintiffs’ counsel and their clients can rely on the attorney work product doctrine to shield investigations conducted in anticipation of filing a lawsuit—even if the attorney conducted the investigation before being retained by any client.

That is the essence of the holding of Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes in his recent decision In Re Turkey Antitrust Litigation, No....				 
				 				
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