NCAA obtains a vital win on antitrust challenge of athletic aid rules *

USA - March 26 2013
In a recent federal court decision, the NCAA obtained dismissal of a claim that certain rules governing athletic grants-in-aid violated the antitrust…

Co-authors: Tyrone P. Thomas.

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Ninth Circuit clarifies extraterritorial reach of California antitrust laws *

USA - February 25 2013
In AT&T Mobility LLC v. AU Optronics Corp., Ninth Circuit Case No. 11-16188 (Feb. 14, 2013), the Ninth Circuit held that California's antitrust law…

Co-authors: Evan Nadel, Harvey Saferstein.

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Supreme Court unanimously rules unforeseeability bars immunity defense for allegedly anticompetitive hospital merger *

USA - February 21 2013
On February 19, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that state-action immunity does not protect a state-created hospital authority from…

Co-authors: Farrah Short, Bruce D. Sokler.

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DOJ assistant Attorney General William Baer’s first merger challenge confirms continued aggressive merger enforcement by Antitrust Division *

USA - February 4 2013
On January 31, 2013, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed its first lawsuit challenging a merger under newly sworn-in…

Co-authors: Farrah Short, Helen J. Kim, Bruce D. Sokler, Christi J. Braun, Shoshana S. Speiser.

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DOJ approves Greater New York Hospital Association’s proposed gainsharing program *

USA - January 29 2013
On January 16, the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division ("DOJ") announced that it does not presently intend to challenge the Greater New York…

Co-authors: Farrah Short, Bruce D. Sokler, Christi J. Braun, Shoshana S. Speiser.

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