Beyond belief: The Tipline for 17 August 2022

Antitrust lawyers are once again reminding the federal judiciary that anything is possible. “I sometimes cannot believe the things that lawyers do,” Judge Colleen McMahon wrote in response to a request that two drugmakers be barred from referring to their reverse-payment settlement as “large”. The senior judge on the US District Court for the Southern District of New York also said the trial in the Namenda antitrust litigation would not delve into Black Lives Matter protests or the covid-19 pandemic. In today's Tipline, Foley & Lardner and Milbank grow their antitrust practices and TikTok does not want Meta’s in-house team viewing any competitive secrets.