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2025 Mid-Year Review: State AGs in a New Era

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The United States is navigating a new era of regulatory oversight and the balance of power between federal and state regulators following the 2024 election cycle. As federal agencies retreat from and/or realign their...more

Fenwick & West LLP

DOJ’s Monopolization Wins Against Google May Spur Greater Enforcement Activity Under Trump 2.0

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On April 17, 2025, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema held that Google had violated both Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act by unlawfully monopolizing the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets and engaging in...more

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Challenge to Amusement Park Price Promotions Adds to Roller Coaster of Canadian Drip Pricing Enforcement

Just months after obtaining a record C$38.9-million penalty in the first fully contested drip pricing case in Canada, the Competition Bureau has initiated a new drip pricing case against Canada’s Wonderland Company, the...more

Mogin Law LLP

Structural vs. Behavioral: Dueling Antitrust Remedies Proposed at Google Ad Trial

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During this week’s trial in Alexandria, Va., the Department of Justice (DOJ) and state attorneys general have outlined a sweeping set of structural and behavioral remedies to curtail Google’s dominance in digital advertising,...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

U.S. Scores New Legal Antitrust Victory Over Google

The US government, led by President Trump, has recorded another big win in the battle that US law enforcement agencies have been waging for years against Google.   This time, a federal court issued a landmark ruling stating...more

Jenner & Block

U.S. et al. v. Google LLC: Key Takeaways from Advertising Technology Antitrust Decision

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Google again made antitrust headlines last week when a federal judge issued a 115-page decision finding that Google violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully establishing a monopoly in digital advertising markets relied...more

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Antitrust Ruling: Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Decision Signals Change

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On April 17, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found that Google violated antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the advertising technology market and unlawfully tying its products together....more

Cozen O'Connor

Google Found Liable for Anticompetitive Practices in Digital Advertising Markets

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A bipartisan coalition of 17 AGs and the U.S. DOJ obtained a favorable ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in their antitrust case against Google LLC. As previously reported, the suit...more

Mogin Law LLP

Musk Says Advertisers Abandoned X via Illegal Boycott

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Advertisers began pulling their ads from the microblogging site, then called Twitter, shortly after Elon Musk took the company over in October 2022. Within a month at least six major companies had stopped advertising on the...more

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Judge Rejects Google’s Motion to Dismiss States’ Advertising Antitrust Case

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A suit brought by state attorneys general accusing Google of overseeing a broad scheme of anticompetitive conduct in digital display advertising markets will continue following a Jan. 28, 2025, ruling from the Eastern...more

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DOJ Targets Google’s Chrome in Groundbreaking Antitrust Action

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In a landmark move, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is poised to introduce unprecedented measures to counteract Google’s dominance in the online search sphere. Following a decisive ruling by U.S. District Judge Amit...more

Alston & Bird

FTC Issues Final Rule on Fake Reviews and Testimonials

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Our Consumer Protection/FTC Team breaks down the newly effective Federal Trade Commission final rule prohibiting misleading online reviews....more

BakerHostetler

Latest FTC Health Privacy Case Sheds Light on Agency Health Privacy Approaches

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Health privacy has been a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) priority for decades, and indeed, one of its very first privacy cases, in the early 2000s, involved the inadvertent sharing of user health data. Fast-forward a few...more

Hinch Newman LLP

FTC CID Attorney on Considerations for Digital Marketers When Selecting Regulatory Investigation Defense Counsel

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You received a Civil Investigative (CID) from the Federal Trade Commission related to a consumer protection matter. Now what?...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Second Circuit Overturns FTC Ruling That Trademark Agreements Violated Section 5

At a time when antitrust enforcers, federal legislators and courts are heavily focused on technology platforms and digital advertisers like Google and Facebook, on June 11, 2021, the Second Circuit vacated an administrative...more

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The Rise and Fall of Statistical Significance

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Dealing with clinical studies can be one of the more challenging aspects of being an advertising/marketing lawyer, particularly if you are one of many lawyers who took the political science/econ route to law school. ...more

Sunstein LLP

January 2019 IP Update - Restricting Keyword Advertising Can be Anticompetitive, holds the FTC

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The contact lens juggernaut 1-800-Contacts has long been aggressive about curbing competitors’ use of “1-800-Contacts” as an online search keyword. On November 17, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held that fourteen...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

EU Fines Google €4.34 billion for Alleged Abuse of Dominant Position of Android Mobile System and Apps

On July 18, 2018, the European Commission (Commission) imposed a fine on Google LLC for the alleged abuse of a dominant market position pertaining to Android mobile devices. Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc....more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Facebook’s disappointing Q2 earnings (and, presumably, some pent-up scandal-fueled anti-‘Book sentiment) sent its stock into freefall yesterday, erasing more than $120 billion from the company’s market value as shares dove...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Where to Get Bad Advice on MAP Policies

Minimum advertised price (MAP) policies are becoming more and more popular. Especially with the rise of cutthroat competition in the online marketplace, many producers are hearing from their resellers that they want margin...more

Mintz

Antitrust Suit Against Michigan Hospital Moves Forward As Both Sides Denied Summary Judgment

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A federal district court denied summary judgment motions brought by both sides in the government’s antitrust suit against a Michigan hospital alleging an agreement not to compete in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act....more

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News Flash: An Agreement Between Competitors to Limit Advertising/Marketing Violates the Antitrust Laws

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For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed an antitrust complaint against hospital systems that agreed to not advertise on billboards or in print in each other’s home county. Last...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"European Court of Justice Rules on Retroactive Loyalty Rebates"

On October 6, 2015, the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) issued an important judgment clarifying the application of Article 102 to retroactive loyalty rebates (Post Danmark AS, Case C 23/14). The case, which had been...more

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