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In the latest major development in Motorola Mobility’s price-fixing lawsuit, the Seventh Circuit granted Motorola’s petition for interlocutory appeal.

On March 22, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit allowed a claim to proceed under § 1 of the Sherman Act against four hospitals acting as a single network under a joint operating agreement.

Despite the increasing burden of e-discovery, private litigants and parties before the U.S. antitrust agencies have been cautious about embracing new e-discovery technologies to assist in identifying what documents are responsive to discovery or government requests.

The Federal Trade Commission has launched enforcement actions against three companies for allegedly misleading consumers about the domestic origin of their products...

Invoking statutory authority not used in almost two decades, President Trump on April 20, 2017, directed the DOC to conduct an investigation into the effects of steel imports on U.S. national security.

Oregon resident Mariel Spencer claims to have downloaded International Dairy Queen's official smartphone app, which offered her a pleasant surprise...

Once upon a time, at the dawn of the commercial Internet age, people regularly gained accessed to the Web via AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy.

The Second Circuit recently set aside a $147 million verdict against two Chinese companies accused of conspiring to fix the price and supply of vitamin C sold to U.S. buyers.

As the economy continues to globalize, so too does the reach of antitrust law. Two recent cases illustrate the interaction between international trade and U.S. antitrust law:

A federal district court has provided new guidance on how California’s Unfair Practices Act treats secret payments and rebates a manufacture offers to only some purchasers.

The FTC reaffirmed its intention aggressively to pursue reverse-payment patent settlement agreements in the pharmaceutical industry.

On June 4, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accepted, subject to final approval, a proposed consent order with Alta Bates Medical Group, Inc. (Alta Bates).

In the 2008 presidential election campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama promised to "reinvigorate" antitrust enforcement. Over the last few years, several observers have concluded that the Obama administration's antitrust record is not substantially different from that of his predecessor.

A new putative consumer class action claiming damages in excess of $5,000,000 was filed earlier this month in the Northern District of California against Goya Foods, Inc. ("Goya").

The cable industry finally obtained some control over skyrocketing pole attachment rates charged by cooperative utilities in North Carolina.

As far as disputes between administrative agencies and investigated companies, this one has gotten particularly public and ugly.

A unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a district court decision enforcing the Federal Trade Commission’s administrative subpoena and civil investigative demand in an ongoing FTC investigation.

Following a multiyear process that was initiated in 2019 and considered thousands of public comments, on October 16, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ...