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A Texas woman was forced to give birth to a baby missing part of its brain and skull.
Then - because the state that forced her to give birth doesn't have public funds for infant funerals - she had to raise money to lay her daughter to rest.
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A Chicago parking company may have more than doubled meter prices since it took over the exclusive city contract in 2008, but "that is not enough to state a claim for violation of the antitrust laws,” the 7th Circuit ruled.
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“The Commission’s Decision suffers from many flaws—including that it is unconstitutional, misconstrues the antitrust laws and cherry picks from the administrative record—and should be reversed,” Illumina wrote in asking for an expedited appeal @ 5th Cir.
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🚩CALL FOR STORIES🚩Have you recently had your application for an auto loan rejected? If so, I'd like to hear more. Please DM me or shoot me an email at psmith494@bloomberg.net
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It’s been fun, antitrust friends, but it looks like the machines have finally come for us
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NEW x2: The Department of Justice reached a settlement with Activision Blizzard over allegations it suppressed the wages of its Call of Duty and Overwatch esports players and limited competition between the teams.
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The world's biggest law firm is laying off more junior attorneys.
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NEW: The Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Activision Blizzard for allegedly suppressing the wages of its esports players and limiting competition between the teams.
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Oh good now accounts I don't follow and that haven't been retweeted or liked by someone I do are showing up in the Following tab
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The trial in DOJ's challenge to the Assa Abloy merger has been pushed back a week to April 24.
Anyone have any idea idea what the court means by "two new, state-of-the-art staplers"?
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DOJ antitrust is pursuing investigations into HSR reporting violations, Deputy Assistant AG Andrew Forman says @abaantitrust spring meeting.
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“It sounds like you’re really arguing that the antitrust laws should not prohibit monopsony, because monopsony always results in depressed prices of an input,” a 7th Circuit judge told McDonalds.
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Ate an entire Trader Joe’s pizza by myself in a desperate attempt to recover immediately after the end of the spring meeting,
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Today is Launcher's final day. Here are some last thoughts for the road.
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FTC's Lina Khan reiterates that ESG and sustainability benefits as merger justifications won't receive a friendly reception in deal review.
The agencies "look at deals through a competition prism, and any kinds of ESG and sustainability benefits are not key to that inquiry."
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"You talk about the Chicago School - that was a radical departure from over 100 years of antitrust enforcement when it came into being," Kanter says.
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Section 8 enforcement against interlocking directorates "in many respects is probably the most effective way to deconcentrate the United States economy today," DOJ antitrust's Jonathan Kanter says.
Over a dozen directors have resigned since ATR ramped up enforcement last year.
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“For those who have a passing awareness of United States politics in the last 24 hours, the idea that vastly different attorneys general in vastly different states can band together to prosecute individual cases seems like an unlikely alliance—however,” WI AG’s Cooley says.
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“We don’t expect there really are any regulatory roadblocks for this deal to be complete. But it can take longer to get through all the different regulators than it may have taken a couple of years ago.”
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The former president of a construction company was sentenced to three years probation with six months of home detention and a $27,000 fine, concluding the Justice Department’s first criminal monopolization case in more than 40 years.
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DOJ's antitrust division is pursuing longer, covert criminal investigations involving search warrants for electronic evidence, consensually collected audio, wiretaps, and undercover agents, Acting Director of Criminal Enforcement Emma Burnham says.
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“Antitrust law today is so hostile to plaintiffs, it’s so hard to win what seems like a slam dunk case,” - .
"Odds probably favor McDonald’s, just because of how muddled and defendant-friendly the law happens to be.”
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The FTC's proposed ban on noncompete agreements has broken 20,000 comments on regulations.gov with another three weeks to go until the extended deadline.
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Federal antitrust regulators are considering information-gathering changes as companies under their investigation increasingly use third-party messaging apps that automatically delete communications.
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Federal antitrust regulators are considering information-gathering changes as companies under their investigation increasingly use third-party messaging apps that automatically delete communications.
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DOJ antitrust is pursuing investigations into HSR reporting violations, Deputy Assistant AG Andrew Forman says spring meeting.
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There’s been an absence of appeals and “an absence of the United States in appeals courts articulating our view of the law,” DOJ antitrust’s Maggie Goodlander says spring meeting.
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Judge James Donato says he will sanction Google for failing to preserve chats in the Google Play store antitrust litigation. “In effect, Google adopted a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy for chat preservation, at the expense of its preservation duties,” he said.
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Scrutiny of pharmacy benefits managers isn't a priority for just the FTC: the State of Ohio sued multiple PBMs yesterday, alleging the companies illegally fixed prescription drug prices in violation of state antitrust law.
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"Why don’t we have better wifi on planes? Because we haven’t blocked airline mergers, people," says CA AG Paula Blizzard to general laughter at the FTC-DOJ Enforcers Summit.
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At FTC/DOJ Enforcers Summit, FTC Chair says the agency is looking at pursuing Robinson-Patman enforcement "in short order."
Section 3(c), which deals with illegal kickbacks and rebates, may come into play with pharma benefits managers, Khan says.
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light
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Interesting detail about this case I haven’t heard anywhere else:
None of the defense attorneys had tried a Sherman Act case before. The last time the government pursued a price-fixing case in the state may have been as far back as the 1950s—over lobster prices!
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NEW: A Maine jury found four home care agency managers not guilty of conspiring to refrain from hiring competitors’ workers, handing the Justice Department its latest defeat in criminal enforcement of labor antitrust law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/just
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