We are all transaction platforms now: The Tipline for 20 July 2018

US Airways and Sabre were already debating American Express when it was just a circuit court ruling. The airline and the ticket distributor have been locked in a five-year battle, and now each is trying to convince the same circuit court as to why the Supreme Court’s ruling supports either side’s opposing position. We have coverage of that, more from the Federal Trade Commission’s administrative tribunal in the Ottobock/Freedom Innovations challenge and a Litigators of the Week article recognising the relatively rare accomplishment of a defeated direct purchasers’ class certification motion in a pay-for-delay case.