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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 22, 2017
Class certification denied where plaintiffs failed to satisfy numerosity requirement, as joinder of the proposed class members was not impractical due to cost and resource sharing through joinder mitigating the financial and logistical barriers to joinder. Motion for class certification denied.
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By Max Mitchell | September 20, 2017
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has sued rival Johnson & Johnson over claims the company forced health care providers and insurers into exclusionary contracts aimed at blocking a competing autoimmune medication Pfizer recently introduced into the market.
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By Joseph Evans | September 13, 2017
In its bid to expand its corporate practice in Europe, White & Case has hired a pair of private equity partners from a leading Scandinavian firm in Stockholm, as well as picking up an antitrust expert in Milan and two specialists in New York and Tokyo.
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By Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte | September 8, 2017
Antitrust Trade and Practice columnists, Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte write: Big Data is a complex issue—different firms and individuals have different access to different sources of data, and want to use that data in different ways. This complexity means that the legality of some methods of culling and using Big Data remains unclear. A recent case signals a shift in the way courts may be viewing attempts to restrict one method of accumulating data that has sparked recent legal debate: data scraping.
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By Christine Simmons | September 6, 2017
A plaintiffs lawyer whose career was upended over his communications with a criminally indicted former Willkie Farr & Gallagher partner is writing what he called a "deeply personal memoir" about "friendship and betrayal" related to the still-evolving drama.
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By Jenna Greene | August 30, 2017
The beauty (or the terror, depending on your perspective) of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division is that you never know where it'll strike. One minute the feds are taking down multi-billion dollar international cartels. The next, they're busting players in an industry that sounds more like a Downton Abbey plot device: heir location services
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By Meghan Tribe | August 29, 2017
John Terzaken, co-head of the global antitrust practice at Allen & Overy and head of the Magic Circle firm's investigations and litigation practice in Washington, D.C., is poised to join Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as a partner in the nation's capital.
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By Carl W. Hittinger and Tyson Y. Herrold | August 25, 2017
Last month we discussed the role of the presidency in formulating antitrust policy, pointing out the fallacy of the view that the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice has historically been (or should be) completely independent of the White House. We posited that history shows that the Antitrust Division's enforcement decisions have been (and should be) a product of informed presidential policy and that past presidents have attempted to apply the Sherman Act in a way that balances the panoply of challenges, both foreign and domestic, that every president elected by the people invariably faces.
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By Charles Toutant | August 24, 2017
A federal judge in Newark has denied a motion to dismiss a suit accusing underwriters at Lloyd's of London of conspiring to increase revenue and profits by concealing a lack of competition for its U.S. insurance customers.
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By B. Colby Hamilton | August 23, 2017
Acknowledging the rarity of such a step, U.S. District Chief Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York said she was compelled to break with a U.S. magistrate judge's recommendation to allow an expert to testify in a suit over Alzheimer's drugs.
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