After years of litigating its attempt to block Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently dropped its in-house challenge following the Ninth Circuit’s decision affirming...more
6/11/2025
/ Acquisitions ,
Activision ,
Antitrust Litigation ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Appeals ,
Competition ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Judicial Authority ,
Mergers ,
Microsoft ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Settlement ,
The Clayton Act
Last month, the Second Circuit rejected the effort of an association of anesthesiology service providers to enjoin a Syracuse-based hospital from recruiting and hiring local anesthesiology providers. The association, American...more
This week, the Second Circuit affirmed the approval of a $50 million agreement settling price-fixing claims brought by a class of farmers against a dairy cooperative and a dairy marketing company. The settlement in Allen et...more
How explicitly must a complaint sounding in antitrust allege causation? At oral argument last week, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit evaluated the sufficiency of the plaintiffs’ allegations that certain Takeda...more
9/23/2016
/ Actos ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Appeals ,
Causation ,
Dismissals ,
False Evidence ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Generic Drugs ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pleading Standards ,
Product Exclusivity ,
Takeda Pharmaceuticals ,
Twombly/Iqbal Pleading Standard
Forced to choose between the competing concerns of international comity and United States antitrust law in In re: Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation, a unanimous panel of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided this...more
9/22/2016
/ Amicus Briefs ,
Anti-Competitive ,
Antitrust Litigation ,
Appeals ,
China ,
Comity ,
Dismissal With Prejudice ,
International Litigation ,
Jurisdiction ,
Jury Verdicts ,
MInistry of Commerce ,
Reversal ,
Vacated
On November 25, 2015, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the $156 million antitrust judgment in MM Steel, L.P. v. JSW Steel (USA) Incorporated; Nucor Corporation, upholding a jury verdict that found one...more