Topic: State enforcement

The state of Texas and Google argued on Thursday over appropriate remedies for addressing an apparent leak to the press of an unredacted copy of 10 states’ monopolisation lawsuit against the technology company.

05 February 2021

Google’s monopoly over digital advertising threatens the very existence of the newspaper industry, a West Virginia publisher has alleged.

02 February 2021

Ukraine’s trade ministry is seeking the power to regulate the prices of essential goods and services of companies that abuse their dominance.

01 February 2021

The deputy majority leader of the New York State Senate has said he hopes legislative progress will have been made by mid-2021 on a bill that will “put more teeth” into the state’s antitrust laws.

26 January 2021

Google has expressed displeasure with the pace at which the Department of Justice and state attorneys general are producing evidence from third parties in their consolidated monopolisation cases.

22 January 2021

A federal New York judge has rejected a request from former pharmaceutical company executive Martin Shkreli to pause the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against him until his release from prison.

11 January 2021

A bipartisan group of US states and territories have alleged that Google illegally sought to maintain a monopoly over general search services, expanding upon a similar lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice in October.

18 December 2020

A Texas-led coalition of 10 state attorneys general has sued Google for allegedly using a series of anticompetitive tactics to cement and maintain its dominance over online advertising.

17 December 2020

The Council of the District of Columbia has unanimously voted to ban non-compete agreements, cementing the city’s position at the centre of the movement for limiting restrictions on employee mobility.

16 December 2020

Harvard Pilgrim Health and Tufts Health must divest an overlapping insurance plan to complete their merger, the Department of Justice and the State of New Hampshire have said.

15 December 2020