A Southwest executive has testified that the partnership between American Airlines and JetBlue is hurting competition at certain airports, but conceded there is no evidence that it has resulted in decreased flight capacity.
The Department of Justice cannot use a temporary stay or injunction to unravel a $315 million tie-up between US Sugar and Imperial Sugar when its arguments fail on the merits, a Delaware federal court has held.
The Department of Justice’s top criminal antitrust prosecutor has joined the partnership at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson.
The Northeast Alliance differs from joint ventures between international airlines because it does not permit pricing coordination, the head of JetBlue has testified.
American Airlines ditched plans to “fight like hell” for JetBlue’s business in favour of a partnership designed to reduce flight capacity, the Department of Justice will argue in court today.
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The Department of Justice has made clear that it intends to restart criminal prosecutions under Section 2 of the Sherman Act. Arnold & Porter partner Andre Geverola – a former director of …
The Biden Administration has vowed to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement, in part by wielding the Sherman Act as a sword to protect workers against “the harmful effects of monopoly and monopsony” – especially …
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently issued a ground-breaking decision in the litigation between doormakers Jeld-Wen and Steves and Son, confirming a divestiture order in a private merger …
The leadership of the Trump Administration’s antitrust agencies is now in place and ready to enforce their vision of competition – including in the area of intellectual property. But past battles between …
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