25 Jul, 2024 FTC’s Noncompete Ban Survives Preliminary Challenge in Pennsylvania Federal Court By Craig Minerva Tomasz Mielniczuk On July 23, 2024, the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied a request for a preliminary injunction to stay the...
15 Jul, 2024 New Tech, Old Theories: The DOJ Antitrust Division's Workshop on Artificial Intelligence By Andrew Freeborn Overview On May 30, 2024, the DOJ’s Antitrust Division hosted a workshop for global antitrust authorities, academics, financiers, and...
15 Jul, 2024 Has the Scrutiny Reached a Fever Pitch? Taking the Temperature of Private Equity in Healthcare: A Podcast Episode with Managing Partner Jeny Maier By Axinn Insights In this episode of Our Curious Amalgam podcast, Managing Partner Jeny Maier and co-host Jaclyn Phillips discuss with antitrust attorney...
08 Jul, 2024 Court Temporarily Halts FTC Proposed Rule on Non-Competes By Kail Jethmalani Dan Oakes The FTC’s recent rule largely rendering employment-related non-compete covenants unenforceable has hit a roadblock—at least with respect...
28 Jun, 2024 ABA International Cartel Workshop: U.S. Enforcement Takeaways By Dan Oakes The 2024 ABA/IBA International Cartel Workshop in Barcelona, Spain just wrapped up after three days full of demonstrations around a...
28 Jun, 2024 In SEC v. Jarkesy, Supreme Court Leaves Open Constitutional Challenges Related to FTC Structure and Process By Craig Minerva Conner Dwinell In a much-watched case concerning the administrative state, on June 27, the Supreme Court decided in SEC v. Jarkesy that defendants...
20 Jun, 2024 Did the Supreme Court Just Make It Harder for the FTC to Block Mergers? By Russell Steinthal For most litigated mergers, the preliminary injunction hearing is decisive: if the FTC or DOJ obtains a preliminary injunction, parties...
20 Jun, 2024 Hospital Deal Collapses When Fourth Circuit Agrees to Injunction Pending Review of FTC Loss — Key Issue Left Unresolved By Rick Dagen The FTC lost its challenge to Novant's acquisition of two hospitals owned by Community Health Systems ("CHS") but obtained an injunction...
11 Jun, 2024 Court Orders Patents Delisted from Orange Book: Is FTC's Newly Aggressive Posture Having an Impact? By Ross Blau Over the past year, FTC has placed two sets of Orange Book listings in its crosshairs, but, to date, FTC has not actually begun any...
15 May, 2024 Large and Unjustified: Second Circuit Clarifies Pleading Requirements in Reverse Payments Cases By Caroline Boisvert Ted Mathias On May 13—and more than ten years after Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis, the leading U.S. Supreme Court case on reverse payment...
15 May, 2024 What’s Happening with Competition Law in France, Portugal, and Poland? A Podcast Episode with Managing Partner Jeny Maier By Axinn Insights On this episode of Our Curious Amalgam, Axinn managing partner Jeny Maier speaks with Nuno Cunha Rodrigues, the president of the...
07 May, 2024 FTC Final Rule Banning Non-Competes Faces Uncertainty By Lisl Dunlop Tasneem Chowdhury The Federal Trade Commission’s final rule banning non-competes was published in the Federal Register today, potentially becoming...
06 May, 2024 Will the PTO's Proposed Expansion of Filing Settlement Agreements Help to Reduce Drug Prices? By Craig Minerva In a recent Federal Register notice, the PTO announced a proposed rule requiring that any settlement agreement resolving a PTAB...
29 Apr, 2024 HealthyCompetition.gov Portal Seeks Public Input on Healthcare Industry Practices By Lisl Dunlop Expanding the range of ways they can identify and investigate potential competition concerns in healthcare, DOJ, FTC, and HHS recently...
22 Apr, 2024 Want To Be an Antitrust Scholar? Meet the ABA’s International Scholar-in-Residence By Axinn Insights Many practitioners wonder what it would be like to be an academic, diving deeply into the leading international legal and policy issues...
19 Apr, 2024 Step Aside, FTC: NYC to Banish Non-Competes By Kail Jethmalani The FTC's proposed ban on labor non-competes has loomed since January 2023, with a vote now scheduled for April 23, 2024 in a special...