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By Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte | July 17, 2017
Antitrust Trade and Practice columnists Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte write: Just before the U.S. Supreme Court's most recent term expired, the justices set the stage for a potential test of the Trump administration's ideological vigor. By inviting Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall's office to "file a brief ... expressing the views of the United States" regarding 'In re Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation,' the court has offered President Donald Trump and his government an opportunity to expound on one of the president's most popular talking points pre- and post-campaign—the issue of China's abuses of international trade.
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By Tom McParland | July 13, 2017
Waste Control Specialists and EnergySolutions Inc. engaged in a single-bidder sale process that boxed out other potential buyers and torpedoed the market-leading nuclear waste disposal companies' defense of a planned $367 million merger that was nixed last month on antitrust grounds, a Delaware judge said in a just-unsealed opinion.
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By Todd Cunningham | July 13, 2017
Fantasy sports site operator DraftKings on Wednesday enlisted power attorney David Boies as it and FanDuel, a rival site with which it had hoped to merge, battled to have a potential class action suit brought by players dismissed in federal court in Boston.
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By Todd Cunningham | July 13, 2017
DraftKings and FanDuel, operators of the two largest sites in the multibillion online fantasy sports industry, have abandoned their plans to merge in the face of pressure from the Federal Trade Commission.
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By Marc Siegel | July 13, 2017
This article provides critical background on DOJ policy and practice, and highlights some of the steps corporate counsel can take during leniency or plea negotiations to secure non-prosecution protection for the company's employees as part of any antitrust corporate disposition.
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By C. Ryan Barber | July 12, 2017
After nearly four years as the Federal Trade Commission's top antitrust enforcer, Debbie Feinstein is returning in September to Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, where she will lead the global antitrust group, the firm said Wednesday.
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By Stephanie Forshee | July 11, 2017
The Retail Litigation Center is once again calling out American Express for its "anti-steering rules."
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By Todd Cunningham | July 11, 2017
U.S. newspaper publishers, who say they are chafing under the market power of Google and Facebook, are calling on Congress to allow them to negotiate collectively with the online giants. They want an antitrust exemption so they can compete more effectively with what they term a de facto "digital duopoly," which now dominates online advertising.
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By Todd Cunningham | June 30, 2017
A class action suit claiming that the NFL's exclusive DirecTV package violated antitrust law was sacked by a federal court judge Friday, who saw no evidence of conspiracy, collusion or significant harm to football fans or bars showing the games.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 30, 2017
The court found that findings of patent invalidity and noninfringement made after reverse-payment settlement agreements were irrelevant to the rule of reason analysis in plaintiff's antitrust litigation but were relevant to plaintiff's antitrust causation showing and were admissible and the court ordered a two phase trial to limit prejudice and jury confusion. Two phase trial ordered.
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