Author: Luis Blanquez Summer is over and everyone is back at the office. If you’ve been enjoying some days off, you’ve probably missed what happened recently in the algorithmic-pricing space in the US. And, as always, we had a very busy summer here. First, there is a new case from the Northern District of California […]| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Ruth Glaeser The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an injunction that would have allowed University of Wisconsin–Madison football player Nyzier Fourqurean to play a fifth season, ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Luis Blanquez As a long-standing antitrust attorney in Europe, making the decision to move from Madrid to San Diego a few years ago to practice law in the U.S. has been a life-changing ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
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Authors: Steve Cernak & Molly Donovan There is no guaranteed safety zone for exchanging competitively sensitive information amongst competitors. Practices once deemed relatively safe—like ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Steven J. Cernak[1] On June 21, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed lower court decisions and held that certain NCAA restrictions on educational benefits for student-athletes violated ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Authors: Steven Cernak and Luis Blanquez Section 8 of the Clayton Act prohibits certain interlocking directorates between competing corporations. But while the prohibition has been around since ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Authors: Steven J. Cernak and Luis Blanquez On August 3, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition announced what might seem like a small technical change to the Hart-Scott-Rodino ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
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Author: Steven Cernak This blog has discussed dynamic competition several times recently, such as here and here. Very roughly, the idea is that innovation is the big driver of wealth creation and ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Steven Cernak On July 11, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division filed a Statement of Interest in a private lawsuit alleging anticompetitive collusion among defendants like The ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Authors: Jack Prindle and Steve Cernak Note: Jack Prindle is a student at the University of Virginia School of Law joining Bona Law for the summer. The DOJ’s Antitrust Division would like to ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Steven Cernak Last week, the FTC voluntarily dismissed its Robinson-Patman Act case against Pepsi that it filed in January. The dismissal and the Commissioner statements accompanying it hinted that the FTC’s determination to revive Robinson-Patman will not be as strong in the Trump Administration. Short and Recent History of the Case This blog has […]| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Authors: Ruth Glaeser and Steven Cernak In her first major speech since taking the helm of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater spotlighted a ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Steven Cernak Late last month, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater gave her first major policy address, entitled “The Conservative Roots of America First ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Nicolas Petit This is a guest post from noted antitrust and competition law scholar Nicolas Petit. Petit is a Professor of Competition Law in the Department of Law at the European ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Steven Cernak Years ago when I was working in-house at General Motors, one of my bosses asked just what it was that I did at all those ABA Antitrust Section meetings I attended: “Seems ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Luis Blanquez In simple terms algorithmic pricing takes place when competitors make use of a software platform to share competitively sensitive information, which the pricing algorithm ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
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Authors: Steven Cernak and Luis Blanquez On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its usual annual announcement to increase the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act thresholds. The ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Luis Blanquez We recently wrote about the Federal Trade Commission’s blog post explaining how relying on a common algorithm to determine your pricing decisions might violate Section 1 of ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Luis Blanquez Are you delegating your pricing decisions to a common algorithm software platform? If so, you might violate the antitrust laws. It may not even matter whether you actually ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
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Author: Luis Blanquez A company using a blockchain––or perhaps even the blockchain itself––, with a sizeable share of a market, could be a monopolist subject to U.S. antitrust laws. But monopoly ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
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