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The Ninth Circuit has dismissed the FTC's claim that AT&T intentionally reducing the data speed of customers with unlimited mobile data plans can be challenged as an "unfair or deceptive" practice.

On April 13, 2015 the Second Circuit (Hon. Walker, Raggi, Droney) heard oral argument in People of the State of New York v. Actavis PLC.

Can participation in a business or trade association and allegiance to its rules trigger antitrust liability for association members under the Sherman Act?

Last week we posted a discussion concerning effective antitrust corporate compliance programs, and provided some factors that in-house counsel should consider in developing compliance programs governing employees’ communications with competitors and dealings with customers and suppliers.

When a widespread industry practice comes under regulatory scrutiny, companies that end up in the crosshairs sometimes fall back on the "everyone does it" defense.

On Dec. 5, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with three defendants who it alleged partook in deceptive, abusive and unfair debt collection practices ...

Since negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 2.0 commenced in August 2017, a lot of attention has been placed on specific disciplines.

The Appeals Court agreed with the Northern District of California District Court Judge's ruling that the NCAA's limitation on student-athlete compensation violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by being too restrictive.

The highly influential Article 29 Working Party, composed in part of representatives of the EU’s national data protection offices, has announced that the right to be forgotten applies to .com as well as country-specific search results.

Earlier this year, we covered the Supreme Court's decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC, which held that a state regulatory board composed of "active market participants" was not immune to federal antitrust laws unless the state "actively supervised" the board.

Disgorgement has long been viewed as a remedy reserved only for the most egregious antitrust violations, such as price fixing.

If you hold a class 5 manufacturer's license, a class 7 micro-brewery license, or a class 8 farm brewery license in Maryland, then you are likely already aware that with a Class 7 limited beer...

This webinar for business executives and high-level in-house counsel, including those with international responsibility, will feature Mark Entwistle, former Canadian Ambassador to Cuba, and Duane Morris attorneys Dr. Timothy Ashby and Marco Gonzalez, Jr., in a discussion of existing legislation that exempts agricultural, food, pharmaceutical and medical device products from the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba, and pending legislation that would ease travel and commerce restrictions between the Unit

Federal antitrust regulators are scrutinizing private equity transactions more closely for potential anticompetitive effects—even transactions that result in the acquisition of only minority, non-controlling interests.

We’ve previously written about the components of effective antitrust compliance programs and the potential benefits corporations may achieve by adopting them.

A recent decision in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Liu v. Amerco

In a stark reminder that the US antitrust agencies continue to take illegal premerger coordination—commonly known as "gun jumping"—very seriously, two producers of medium density fiberboard (MDF) agreed to pay nearly $5 million in civil penalties and disgorgement for violations of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act and Section 1 of the Sherman Act.

The Commissioners' vote on the new policy was 4-1.