The California State Assembly recently unveiled legislation (“AB 325”) designed to strengthen California antitrust enforcement in two ways. First, the proposed statute would impose heavy restrictions on — and under some...more
6/24/2025
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For decades, California enforcers and politicians have argued for state-level antitrust enforcement activity at a level commensurate with California’s $4.1 trillion economy, the largest state economy in the United States....more
California continues to ramp up recent efforts to ferret out anticompetitive conduct in the Golden State through oversight and enforcement. In 2023, the state appointed an antitrust prosecutor to head up its new Division of...more
On October 14, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into effect ABX2-1, which was developed and passed in a special legislative session. The aggressive new law — ostensibly designed to prevent the sort of supply...more
California Senior Assistant Attorney General Paula Blizzard announced that the California AG’s office will “reinvigorate” its dormant criminal enforcement of the Cartwright Act.
For more than a century, California’s...more