Chopra: Enforce antitrust to improve labour market competition
The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice should enforce antitrust laws to improve competition in labour markets, Commissioner Rohit Chopra has said in a letter to the DOJ’s antitrust division.
Playing nicely: The Tipline for 19 September 2019
Rohit Chopra wants to see more wage-fixing cases out of the Federal Trade Commission’s sister antitrust agency. The commissioner commended the Department of Justice for announcing it would conduct criminal investigations into possible collusion related to compensation or other employment terms. Chopra also urged his own agency to pass rules barring certain non-compete contract provisions, even as FTC chair Joseph Simons testified there was not enough economic literature to back any changes at this point.
Delrahim spars with Democrats over emissions deal’s immunity
A horizontal agreement to reduce output would not qualify for the Noerr-Pennington defence against antitrust liability regardless of the intended policy goal, the head of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division has said.
FTC finds economic evidence insufficient for non-compete ban
The Federal Trade Commission deemed evidence on worker non-competes insufficient to justify a rulemaking, chairman Joseph Simons has said, but the agency will continue to pursue action against such clauses.
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Year in preview: antitrust on a “blue wave”
For the first time in eight years, Democrats control the US House of Representatives and its antitrust subcommittee. With that comes a bully pulpit, but also a big stick of investigation and potentially legislation.
- DOJ’s AT&T appeal may be undercut by a trial concession
- Google and the transatlantic antitrust abyss
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An interview with Chris Sagers
Chris Sagers’s book on antitrust is not like most of the others you may have seen lately.
Litigators of the week: Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick
Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh is not known for an expansive view of the federal antitrust laws, but he sided with iPhone users bringing antitrust claims – a win for their counsel at Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick.
Hot Docs – Hovenkamp, hospital-home bias and a healthy dose of judicial review
While the recent heatwave may have you inside by the air-conditioning all day, we have collected the hottest docs in antitrust to keep you entertained.
- Hot Docs: The ups and downs of horizontal shareholding and vertical enforcement
- Hot Docs: Dons and Bert and Roger and Herb
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Tipline
- News and notes from around the antitrust world
- Playing nicely: The Tipline for 19 September 2019
- Two Priuses and a Tesla: The Tipline for 18 September 2019
- Get your popcorn ready: The Tipline for 17 September 2019
- More from Tipline
- 20191203: Macquarie Group Limited; The Independent Order of Foresters
- 20191220: Tailwind Capital Partners III, L.P.; Linsalata Capital Partners Fund VI, L.P.
- 20190383: International Business Machines Corporation; Red Hat, Inc.
- 20191211: Unilever N.V.; Olly Public Benefit Corporation
- 20191215: AP IX First Street Holdings, L.P.; Smart & Final Stores, Inc.
Data courtesy of FTC.gov
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