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Traditionally, plaintiffs asserting claims under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act allege the existence of one or more product markets relevant to the defendants’ anticompetitive conduct and the defendants’ shares of those markets in order to state a plausible claim of defendants’ market power and/or monopoly power in a product market.

In PNY Technologies, Inc. v. SanDisk Corp., the Northern District of California dismissed PNY’s exclusive dealing and attempted monopolization claims.

Two real estate investors pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Georgia.

In significant news for parties considering transactions potentially reportable under the Hart‑Scott‑Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act)...

In the United States, the McCarran Ferguson Act provides the insurance industry with a limited exemption from the federal antitrust laws.

On Aug. 6, 2014, a split three-judge panel from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit restored two of Mutual Pharmaceutical Company Inc.’s antitrust counterclaims against Tyco Healthcare Group LP that stemmed from Tyco’s 2006 patent infringement suit against the company.

Federal Court Opinion Reminds Health Care Providers To Assess The Antitrust Risks Of Competitor Affiliations.

In what it is calling the Antitrust Division's "first criminal prosecution against a conspiracy specifically targeting e-commerce," the Department of Justice has announced that an individual has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he conspired to fix the prices of wall posters sold online through Amazon Marketplace.

Florida's Attorney General has launched an antitrust investigation into CVS Health and its pharmacy benefit manager Caremark, examining whether the company inappropriately steered patients to CVS pharmacies and reimbursed them at higher rates than independent pharmacies. The investigation, part of a broader multi-state scrutiny of PBM business practices, seeks documents and testimony on policies related to transparency, reimbursement rates, audits, and market concentration in an industry where three PBMs co

On September 26, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 state attorneys general filed a complaint against Amazon.com Inc. in the United States District Court

On February 2, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that in 2021 the threshold for applying the size-of-parties test of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act will decrease from $94 million to $92 million.

The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") initiated on January 10, 2004, an administrative challenge to a hospital merger that closed in January 2000.

Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act confers broad enforcement powers on the Commission to prohibit "unfair methods of competition."

On November 28, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission announced important changes to the Premerger Notification Office's guidance on complying with Hart-Scott-Rodino Items 4(c) and 4(d).

On October 10, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously to adopt new rules for the premerger notification form and reporting process under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act.

A federal judge in Washington, DC ruled last week that the FTC must disclose the names of the individuals it relied on in its bid to block a proposed $3.5 billion merger between Sysco and US Foods.

On January 24, 2014, a federal district court judge validated the trend of recent increased Federal Trade Commission (FTC) scrutiny of physician practice consolidations and acquisitions by upholding the agency’s antitrust challenge to the St. Luke’s Health System (St. Luke’s) 2012 acquisition of Saltzer Medical Group (Saltzer).