Appeals, Antitrust Provisions, The Clayton Act

Update: FTC Drops In-House Challenge of Microsoft’s Activision Acquisition After Ninth Circuit Affirms Denial of Preliminary...

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 6/11/2025

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

Ninth Circuit Rules In Favor Of Merging Parties In Microsoft/Activision Appeal

A&O Shearman on 5/13/2025

On May 7, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court opinion that denied the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) motion for a preliminary injunction against Microsoft’s acquisition of...more

Eighth Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction Blocking Physician Practice Acquisition in North Dakota

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis on 7/1/2019

On June 13, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction granted to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and North Dakota Attorney General (NDAG) blocking the proposed acquisition of...more

AIG Won’t Have To Defend Carfax In $50 Million Antitrust Suit

Carlton Fields on 3/7/2018

On March 1, a New York appeals court ruled that American International Group, Inc. (AIG) need not defend Carfax, Inc. against a $50 million suit alleging the company monopolized the vehicle history report market. ...more

Ninth Circuit Affirms Divestiture of Consummated Physician Practice Acquisition

McDermott Will & Emery on 3/2/2015

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed an Idaho federal district court’s decision ordering the divestiture of a physician practice group that had been acquired by a competing health system. The case, which...more

In Highly-Anticipated Decision, Ninth Circuit Affirms That Hospital-Physician Group Merger in St. Luke’s Violated Section 7 And...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/20/2015

On February 10, 2015, the Ninth Circuit issued its highly-anticipated decision at the intersection of health care and antitrust, affirming the lower court’s finding that a hospital-physician group merger completed nearly...more