Podcast: Are Legal Holds Protected by Privilege? Insights from the FTC's Battle with Amazon
The FTC Takes Action Against the Amazon Prime Program
The FTC and DOJ Act Against Amazon to Protect Privacy
The Labor Law Insider: New York Amazon Employees Vote for Union - What Do We Learn?
Law Brief®: Mark Rosenberg and Richard Schoenstein Discuss Recent Experiences With Amazon Neutral Patent Evaluations
Episode 153 -- The Mighty Amazon Falls to OFAC Enforcement Sword
Subro Sense Podcast - Unpacking Product Claims Against Amazon
Amazon’s Pilot Program for Patent Disputes
The beginning of 2025 saw two overarching trends in FRAND litigation...more
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulation of September 14, 2022, along with the Digital Services Act (DSA) regulation, represents one of the major digital initiatives of the European Union. Gradually applicable since May 2,...more
Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending December 1, 2023, is below. This week’s Update features of variety of stories – resort fees, potential new EU traveler regulations and Ryanair’s continued pursuit of OTAs....more
CEP Magazine (February 2021) - On November 10, Margrethe Vestager, executive vice president of the European Commission, unveiled formal charges against Amazon for abusing its dominant position in major European Union...more
Globally, competition regulators have increased their attention to digital companies since big tech firms and dual platforms have the capabilities to gain disproportional advantages. Competition and antitrust laws aim to...more
US lawmakers urge FSOC to designate cloud-based storage systems used by major banks as systemically important financial market utilities. In an August 22, 2019, letter addressed to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, in his...more
This week’s Update includes a report on the EU Commission’s widespread examination of online platforms’ pricing practices and an update on the much-publicized standoff between United and Expedia. Enjoy....more
Risks of Information-Sharing at a Single Meeting - On 6 October 2017, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) provided a reminder that competing companies risk infringing competition law if they exchange commercially...more
The EC concludes that Luxembourg provided illegal tax benefits to Amazon of €250 million and refers Ireland to the European Court for failure to recover illegal tax benefits from Apple of €13 billion - On 4 October 2017,...more
Our weekly client OTA & Travel Distribution Update for the week ending June 16, 2017 is below. Several interesting stories this week... Price-Fixing Technology the Subject of EU Regulators [PARITY] - ("Enforcers Must...more
Not all the news coming out of Europe these days is about Brexit. In fact, the forces of unity and harmonization remain a top priority for European regulators hoping to combat digital security threats and create a safer and...more
Competition authorities worldwide ramped up scrutiny of e-commerce business practices in 2015. The European Commission (Commission) launched an expansive sector inquiry in May 2015 aimed at identifying anticompetitive...more
21 October 2015: Following state aid investigations, the European Commission has ordered Luxembourg and the Netherlands to recover unpaid taxes of €20-30m from each of Fiat and Starbucks. The Commission has confirmed that...more
As in the 9 percent "amusement tax" that the city of Chicago recently extended to online streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime, triggering a series of lawsuits alleging that the newly expanded tax was illegally...more
On 24 June 2015, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was defeated in its first attempt at convincing a jury to convict individuals for the UK criminal “cartel offence”. The jury was not persuaded that the two...more
On Thursday, the European Commissioner for Competition announced a formal investigation into whether Amazon, the largest distributor of e-books in Europe, has abused its dominance in the market for e-books. The investigation...more