Laying down the law: The Tipline for 6 October 2023

Assistant attorney general Jonathan Kanter is about done defending the age of some of the case law cited in the US agencies’ draft merger guidelines. On Thursday, he asked a Brookings Institution audience if they had heard of Brown v Board of Education. “My recollection from law school is that Supreme Court cases don’t expire,” Kanter said of the court’s 1954 decision striking down public school segregation.