The United States Department of Justice has reportedly begun an antitrust investigation of four major automakers for possible unlawful collusion in violation of United States antitrust law. The cause of this investigation? The automakers tentatively agreed with the...
I respectfully and strongly disagree with the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Amex case, in which the Supreme Court ruled, by a narrow 5-4 majority, that the government plaintiffs had failed to establish a prima facie case against American Express Company...
David Leonhardt of The New York Times has written a superb, groundbreaking article on the evolution of commerce in the United States (“The Charts That Show How Big Business Is Winning,” The New York Times, June 17, 2018). Relying on an original statistical analysis,...
On conventional antitrust grounds, which have not been argued in a generation but remain sound law and the controlling law, the Department of Justice should block the proposed merger of AT&T and Time-Warner. AT&T is a dominant distributor of media content,...