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DOJ Deadline To Block Change & UnitedHealth Merger Approaching Fast

The Department of Justice has until Saturday, February 27 to block the merger between UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare, according to a Securities and...
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Kanter Appoints New Special Assistant at DOJ Antitrust Division

Jonathan Kanter has filled some desks at the Department of Justice. Sarah Allen and Eric Posner will be Counsel to the AAG. Allen was...
Sanderson Farms

Sen. Warren Calls For DOJ Scrutiny To Oppose Sanderson Chicken Deal

Senator Elizabeth Warren, backed by some dozen other US lawmakers, told the Justice Department that a plan to merge chicken producer Sanderson Farms with...
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DOJ Antitrust & FBI Announce Effort To Deter Collusion

The US Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and the FBI announced an initiative on Thursday to detect and prosecute companies that take advantage of supply...
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DOJ Seeks Clarity In Gig Worker Employment Classification

In a statement on Friday, the Justice Department’s antitrust division has urged the National Labor Relations Board to clarify how it defines an employee. The...
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Veteran Federal Prosecutor Tapped For DOJ Antitrust Role

Carol Sipperly has been named acting deputy assistant attorney general for antitrust with oversight for civil and criminal antitrust litigation. Carol Sipperly will serve as acting...
2- Economic Issues in Assessing Potential and Nascent Competition Andrew Elzinga Nikhil Gupta Margaret Kyle and Vivek Mani

Economic Issues in Assessing Potential and Nascent Competition

Potential and nascent competition have seen renewed interest from academics, antitrust practitioners, and United States enforcement agencies in recent years. For example, the Federal...
Making the Potential Competition Doctrine Great Again

Making the Potential Competition Doctrine Great Again

Antitrust enforcement efforts against “big-tech” have been hobbled by the destruction of the “potential competition doctrine.” This post describes how the Supreme Court made...
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Sen. Warren Urges DOJ To Take On Price-Fixing

US Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat who has argued for the breakup of tech giants like Amazon, Google and Facebook, has urged the Justice...
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DaVita Must Face DOJ’s Criminal Antitrust Charges

On Friday, January 28, a federal judge declined to dismiss a criminal antitrust indictment alleging dialysis provider DaVita and its former CEO Kent Thiry...
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