Antitrust Advocate

Pennsylvania has been front and center in coverage of the 2024 election cycle. But it is not only the next President that the citizens of the Commonwealth may effectively decide. Pennsylvania is ...

https://www.antitrustadvocate.com/blogs/all-eyes-on-pennsylvania-state-antitrust-bill-also-at-stake-in-the-2024-election/

Last year, we wrote about the potential antitrust liability companies might face from participating in organizations seeking to advance environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) goals. ...

https://www.antitrustadvocate.com/blogs/update-on-antitrust-enforcement-and-esg-initiatives/

On September 16, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a United States District Court’s dismissal of a proposed class action by gasoline consumers against several energy companies in D’Au...

https://www.antitrustadvocate.com/blogs/ninth-circuit-says-political-question-act-of-state-doctrines-bar-gasoline-consumers-price-fixing-claims/

On August 5, 2024, District Judge Amit P. Mehta (U.S. District Court, District of Columbia) ruled in United States v. Google LLC that Google violated §2 of the Sherman Act by monopolizing the in...

https://www.antitrustadvocate.com/blogs/antitrust-sanctions-the-duty-to-preserve-chats/

On August 1, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) virtually cohosted the first public meeting of the multiagency Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing (Strike F...

https://www.antitrustadvocate.com/blogs/the-first-public-meeting-of-the-strike-force-on-unfair-and-illegal-pricing-what-happened-and-whats-next/

July was a busy month for courts analyzing the FTC’s rulemaking authority. In April, the FTC published its final rule banning most employment-based noncompetition agreements (the Noncompete Rul...

https://www.antitrustadvocate.com/blogs/courts-split-on-ftcs-authority-to-issue-noncompete-rule/

Last year, we reported on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to dismiss its only remaining criminal no-poach case and regroup. We advised that the DOJ was unlikely to abandon criminal n...

https://www.antitrustadvocate.com/blogs/doj-still-contemplating-criminal-no-poach-cases/

As students depart their college campuses for summer break, the NCAA has no such reprieve on the horizon. Over the past few weeks, the NCAA has settled questions pertaining to backpay for Name, I...

https://www.antitrustadvocate.com/blogs/no-offseason-for-the-ncaa/

The members of BakerHostetler’s Antitrust and Competition team are pleased to present these additional brief updates from the conference sessions at this week’s ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting i...

https://www.antitrustadvocate.com/blogs/live-update-3-aba-antitrust-spring-meeting-washington-d-c/

The members of BakerHostetler’s Antitrust and Competition Team are pleased to present these additional brief updates from the conference sessions at this week’s ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting i...

https://www.antitrustadvocate.com/blogs/live-update-2-aba-antitrust-spring-meeting-washington-d-c/