In stunning, back-to-back setbacks for the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and its promised efforts to pursue employer agreements that restrain labor markets, in April 2022, two separate juries...
On 28 March 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held their first of four “listening sessions” related to their review of the merger enforcement guidelines. The DOJ and the FTC...
ARBITRATION OF ANTITRUST DISPUTES
It has long been settled that private antitrust disputes are arbitrable. In 1985, the US Supreme Court ruled that antitrust disputes are arbitrable if the claims are “encompassed within a valid arbitration clause in an...
On 18 January 2022, with less than 24 hours’ notice to the public, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a joint press conference to announce that they were beginning to redevelop...
With the recent confirmation of Jonathan Kanter as assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Biden administration finally has leadership at the world’s largest...