NIL Recruitment Injunction — Highway to NIL Podcast
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 18 - A Deep Dive Into Antitrust Violations and the Procurement Collusion Strike Force
Class Action | Eleventh Circuit Reinstates No Hire Antitrust Claims Against Burger King
Antitrust Conversations: Antitrust Litigation
Antitrust Conversations: Fundamentals of Antitrust Law
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Podcast | Episode 100: Marguerite Willis, Nexsen Pruet Attorney
NCAA vs. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma: A Win for Antitrust Law and College Football Fans
College Sports, Video Games & the Right of Publicity With Guest Michael McCann of Sportico
JONES DAY TALKS®: Alston, the NCAA, and the Future of College Sports
Game On: College Sports, Video Games & the Right of Publicity With Guest Michael McCann of Sportico
Nota Bene Episode 68: The Current Antitrust Enforcement Climate in the United States with Capitol Forum Senior Editor Nate Soderstrom
Nota Bene Episode 29: The Essential Elements of Effective Corporate Compliance Programs with Jim McGinnis
It both rivals and compounds the transformation brought to us by advancements in computing technology, mobile technology, and the internet. The rapid evolution and commercialization of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has...more
On June 30, 2025, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey denied Apple’s Motion to Dismiss the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) lawsuit accusing the company of violating Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act...more
Takeaway: We have written about “no-poach” class actions, in which employers allegedly conspire not to recruit or hire each other’s employees with the intent of driving down wages. See Eleventh Circuit reinstates no-hire...more
On May 22nd, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) filed a joint Statement of Interest in a case against several prominent asset managers brought last year by the Texas Attorney General. In...more
On May 19, 2025, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed into law the Right to Repair Act, which will require original manufacturers of digital electronic products to make available certain parts, tools, and documentation for...more
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
State attorneys general (AGs) have recently signaled a more aggressive stance toward their own criminal antitrust enforcement. If they realize their ambitions, this could presage a notable shift in the US enforcement...more
In October 2016, the Obama Administration announced that it would criminally prosecute no-poach and wage-fixing agreements among competitors for talent. Starting in December 2020, through the Trump and Biden Administrations,...more
On March 21, 2025, Judge Jeffrey S. White of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted defendant software company’s motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ claims of price-fixing under the Sherman...more
2025 promises a dynamic and challenging year for businesses as key antitrust cases set new precedent, private antitrust litigation will intensify, and legal battles evolve. In this first installment of the Wilson Sonsini...more
The US District Court for the Western District of Washington issued a significant ruling on December 4, 2024 in an ongoing case raising alleged claims of algorithmic price collusion in the apartment rental industry. The court...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in a 3-2 party-line vote last week, ordered a New York City area building services contractor, Guardian Service Industries, Inc. (Guardian), to rescind all "no-hire" agreements, including...more
On Nov. 12, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a court of appeals decision that has important implications for the Department of Justice’s criminal antitrust enforcement program. In United States v. Brewbaker,...more
The US Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) recently filed a Statement of Interest (Statement) to highlight its view that (1) information sharing alone, without any agreement to fix prices, can violate US antitrust...more
DOJ’s Antitrust Division has been relatively quiet in prosecuting criminal cartel or bid-rigging cases. Since 2015, the Antitrust Division’s criminal enforcement has fallen from the billions in penalties each year to the...more
On August 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and eight states filed a complaint in federal court in North Carolina alleging that RealPage, a software analytics company, coordinated rental prices in the real estate...more
On July 22, 2024, Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer of the Northern District of Illinois issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order (“Opinion”), ultimately ruling to certify a class of vendors that provide back-end software to many of...more
Federal and state antitrust enforcers, as well as private plaintiffs, are actively investigating and challenging both the companies using pricing algorithms, and the software vendors or the data analytics firms providing the...more
In what will be one of the most important decisions in antitrust since the proliferation of algorithm software, on May 8, 2024, Chief Judge Miranda Du of the United States District Court, District of Nevada, granted the hotel...more
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently published a blog post warning that the use of algorithms to assist in determining prices may violate federal antitrust laws, regardless of the business or industry. The FTC...more
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to present its 2023 Antitrust Year in Review, which provides an overview of the significant developments in antitrust law, policy, and enforcement over the past year. This report...more
The year 2023 ended with a bang in the cartel space, with a federal court of appeals upending what was long believed to be the scope of conduct that should be considered per se under the Sherman Act. The new year, 2024,...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and now state attorneys general, have set their sights on staffing companies in their evolving efforts to examine labor markets through an antitrust lens....more
On September 28, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a civil suit against a benchmarking service provider that signals a crack-down on benchmarking involving the exchange of competitively sensitive information. ...more
With the end of summer and fall right around the corner, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Antitrust Division is gearing up for several crucial displays of its criminal enforcement priorities across multiple...more