Appealing to a higher power: The Tipline for 16 July 2018

Today’s GCR USA headline stories are all about appeals. Check out our coverage of oral arguments by natural gas buyers and traders before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on summary judgment and class certification; and a brief by the Federal Trade Commission’s complaint counsel challenging a FTC administrative law judge’s decision in favour of Impax in a pay-for-delay case. We also have analysis penned by former senior antitrust enforcers Donald I Baker and William S Comanor about a concession made during US v AT&T, which could undercut the Department of Justice’s appeal.