Tag: Antitrust lawsuit
New Suit Alleges Google Fixed Ad Rates With Facebook
Alphabet’s Google was accused in an antitrust lawsuit of giving itself the edge in online advertising by cutting a cozy deal with Facebook that...
US Administration & TikTok Agree To Drop Lawsuit
Under the US President Joe Biden administration, a lawsuit from the President Donald Trump era attempting to ban TikTok from American shores won’t be...
Australia Moves Epic Games Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple Forward
The antitrust lawsuit initiated by Epic Games against Apple was given the green light to move forward by the court in Australia in a...
US Judge Denies Aon’s Bid For A Quick Trial
A federal judge said he can’t schedule a summer trial in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit challenging insurance broker Aon’s proposed acquisition of rival...
FTC Eases Standards For Competition Lawsuits
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to rescind a 2015 policy statement that hampered its ability to file antitrust lawsuits, effectively lowering the bar for such actions.
That...
US FTC Claims That Martin Shkreli Destroyed Evidence
The Federal Trade Commission accused disgraced pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli on Tuesday, June 1, of having destroyed evidence relevant to a lawsuit that could...
Booksellers Sue Amazon & Big Five Publishers For Price-Fixing
Amazon and the “Big Five” publishers – Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster – have been accused of colluding to...
Uber, Lyft Drivers File Lawsuit Over Prop 22 In California
Gig workers in California who drive for Uber, Lyft, and other rideshare and delivery platforms have filed a lawsuit in the state’s Supreme Court...
Court Asked To Delay Consolidating Facebook Cases
According to a Bloomberg report, Facebook is asking a District of Columbia federal court to delay deciding whether it will consolidate two antitrust lawsuits...
Lawsuits Filed by the FTC and the State Attorneys General Are...
By Jennifer Newstead (Vice President & General Counsel, Facebook)
Billions of people use Facebook’s products every day. To earn their time and attention, we compete...
