Topic: State enforcement

The American Bar Association has urged the European Commission to update its market definition notice to provide guidance on how it intends to analyse and intervene in cases involving multi-sided markets and digital platforms.

20 October 2020

Ride-hailing platforms Uber and Lyft face a presumed disadvantage in seeking to overturn a ruling that required them to classify their drivers as employees, a California state appellate court has said.

14 October 2020

Competition enforcers need more flexible laws for challenging anticompetitive conduct, New York State attorney general Letitia James has said.

15 September 2020

The Federal Trade Commission will argue at trial next week that Jefferson Health and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network are unable to meet the burden of proof to establish a failing firm defence allowing both companies to merge.

08 September 2020

Drug purchasers suing generic pharmaceutical companies for an alleged antitrust conspiracy have told a federal judge that the case brought by a large group of state attorneys general centred on Teva Pharmaceuticals should be among the first to go to trial.

10 July 2020

A coalition of 51 US states and territories have filed their third sweeping antitrust lawsuit against the generic pharmaceuticals industry, alleging a massive conspiracy to fix prices for topical skin treatments.

11 June 2020

A federal judge in Kentucky has granted summary judgment in favour of gasoline company Marathon on antitrust claims brought by the state of Kentucky.

03 June 2020