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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  12/13/22
								

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

 

Meta battles U.S. antitrust agency over future of virtual reality.  The Biden administration accused Meta Platforms Inc of trying to buy its way to dominance in the metaverse, kicking off a high-profile trial to try to prevent the Facebook parent from buying virtual reality app developer Within Inc....				 
				 				
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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  12/6/22
								

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

Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo.  Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek renewed his attack on Apple in a series of tweets alleging the iPhone maker "gives itself every advantage while at the same time stifling innovation and hurting consumers." Ek tagged a number of sympathetic business leaders...				 
				 				
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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  11/30/22
								

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

 

FTC likely to file lawsuit to block Microsoft bid for Activision -Politico.  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft Corp's $69 billion takeover bid for video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc, Politico reported, citing people familiar with...				 
				 				
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Massive Over-Disclosure in the UK May be The Hallmark of a New “Bespoke Disclosure Regime” For Our Digital Age

				
Posted  11/28/22
								

				 
				
				 				By Simon Yeung and Johanna Hoyos

In a radical move, Mr Justice Marcus Smith is ushering in a new disclosure option in England by ordering “massive over-disclosure” of documents by the parties in Genius Sports Technologies Ltd v Soft Construct (Malta) Ltd. Essentially, he ordered that the entire pool of documents – minus irrelevant or privileged ones – should be disclosed for the receiving party to search,...				 
				 				
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Antitrust Matters Episode 9: Epic v. Apple Ninth Cir. Appeal:  Reactions to and Analysis of the Oral Argument

				
Posted  11/22/22
								

				 
				
				 				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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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  11/16/22
								

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

 

McDonald's should face lawsuit over no-poach pacts, says Biden admin.  The Biden administration has urged a U.S. appeals court to revive claims that McDonald's Corp violated federal antitrust law by requiring franchisees to agree not to hire away employees from corporate-owned stores. The U.S....				 
				 				
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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  11/8/22
								

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

 

Judge Blocks a Merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.  A federal judge blocked a bid by Penguin Random House, the biggest book publisher in the United States, to buy one of its main rivals, Simon & Schuster, in a significant victory for the Biden administration, which is trying to...				 
				 				
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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  11/1/22
								

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

 

EU renews order for Illumina to keep Grail as separate entity.  EU antitrust regulators on Friday renewed interim measures ordering U.S. life sciences company Illumina to keep Grail as a separate entity pending an order to unwind the takeover completed before the deal had been approved. The interim...				 
				 				
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Tenth Circuit Refuses to Inject Consumer Choice Framework into Antitrust Challenge to EpiPen Distribution

				
Posted  11/1/22
								

				 
				
				 				By Osob Samantar

The framework of choice for antitrust challenges—at least in the insurance industry—remains the consumer welfare standard, not the consumer choice standard, according to the recent decision by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Sanofi-Aventis U.S. v. Mylan, et al.

In a unanimous decision, the Tenth Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas...				 
				 				
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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  10/25/22
								

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

 

U.S. says seven board directors resigned under antitrust pressure.  Seven directors on the boards of five companies have resigned because of the U.S. Justice Department's concerns over the directors holding similar board positions at rival companies, the department said. Three directors resigned...				 
				 				
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