Antitrust
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Courts, Government
DOJ Stops Airlines From Merging And Costing Us Even More
Doesn't matter as much when all of your flights are reimbursed by the firm, but it is still a win.
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Finance
There Really Was A Corporate Conspiracy To Inflate Egg Prices, And It's Been Proven In Federal Court
Illinois indicates that the Machiavellian machinations of corporate colluders over œufs were the culinary culprit in this sense-scrambling story. -
Law Schools
Are We Seeing An Up-And-Coming Antitrust Boom?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.06.23
* Donald Trump set to testify in New York. Be there, will be wild. [Reuters]
* Stroock files notice that it’s laying off roughly 140 people in New York. [Bloomberg Law News]
* The administration’s antitrust push hasn’t netted all the results one might’ve hoped, but Lina Khan’s tenure at the FTC may have some knock on effects as law students embrace antitrust work. [Politico]
* More firms are condemning senior associates to a holding pattern. [American Lawyer]
* Defamation filings are on the rise and it’s a real, shall we say, SLAPP in the face. [ABA Journal]
* It’s Pro Bono Week in the UK — the sort of annual recognition of good works that frightens and confuses Americans. [LegalCheek]
* NCAA faces billions in damages after feasting at the free labor trough for decades. [Law360]
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Courts, Finance
The Google Monopoly Trial Now Underway Could Remake The Anticompetitive Internet Ecosystem
As the legal woes of Donald Trump and Sam Bankman-Fried are eating up most of the bandwidth, Google's own trial seems to be slipping to the second page of search results. -
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Government
FTC Makes Good On Promise To Trust Bust By Going After Amazon
Amazon better have their defenses prepared from A to Z. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.22.23
* Somehow they’ve managed to find even more undisclosed private air travel. This time taking Clarence Thomas to a Koch brothers event in a level of impropriety that a former W. Bush judge said, “takes my breath away, frankly.” [ProPublica]
* Clifford Chance opts for permanent hybrid work model while other firms choose alienation and extortion. [RollonFriday]
* Second Circuit decides Sam Bankman-Fried can wait in jail. [Law360]
* North Carolina Supreme Court justice Anita Earls spoke publicly about implicit bias in the legal system. After the judiciary commission ordered her to pre-clear future statements with them, she sued over the prior restraint and the federal judge chastised her for making the justice system look bad by talking about bias out loud. [Balls and Strikes]
* Having toppled admissions, right-wingers take aim at scholarships that might possibly help non-white people go to school. [Reuters]
* Judge upholds the right of private investors to put their money toward companies that match their environmental and social goals. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Profiling the folks chronicling the opaque Google antitrust case. [Wired]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.12.23
* Trump moves to get Judge Chutkan kicked off his case because at a sentencing for a low-level January 6er, she said that the organizers of the riot had not been charged. But she never said Trump was the one who organized the riot. So… his lawyers are the ones making the connection that well obviously our client organized the riot. Galaxy brain work, gang! [CNN]
* NY judge strikes down state’s ethics commission, ruling that it violates separation of powers for former governor Andrew Cuomo to be subject to an independent ethical probe. By way of pure coincidence, this judge was a Trump nominee who failed to reach a Senate vote. [Law360]
* Because, relatedly, the Supreme Court eyes another run at the CFPB arguing that it violates the separation of powers to have an agency that lawmakers can’t unilaterally zero-fund at any moment. [Reuters]
* The Google antitrust defense team learned its trade while working on the other side of the Microsoft antitrust case. Around, around the revolving door goes! [Bloomberg Law News]
* Supreme Court needs binding ethics rules… but don’t hold your breath. [Dorf on Law]
* Tech and office space enjoy a complicated budgeting relationship. [American Lawyer]
* Legendary DC attorney Bob Bennett has passed away. [NY Times]
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Law Schools
Symposium Publishes Joshua Wright Column... Hidden In Its 'Uncategorized' Archives
Some high academia weirdness going on here.
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Finance
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.24.23
* Come August, The Wisconsin Supreme Court will be a majority Democrat. Liberals in the state have big plans — particularly on abortion and voting rights. [Huffington Post]
* The DOJ and FTC have released new merger guidelines. They want to bring antitrust enforcement back to its roots. [Law360]
* Want a corporate board seat? Now’s your moment! Thanks to increased regulations everyone wants an attorney on their board. [Bloomberg Law]
* Sam Bankman-Fried will finally shut up. The talkative founder of crypto exchange FTX has accepted a gag order in the criminal case against him, though his attorney contest that his previous interviews with reporters amounts to witness tampering. [Reuters]
* Biglaw “caste system”? Sounds pretty accurate to me. [Law.com]
* With more legal threat closing in, Donald Trump is only getting Trump-ier. Thankfully, that’s unlikely to work in court. [Salon]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.14.23
* Here we go again! Biden uses another avenue to issue some of the student debt relief blocked by Republicans in the Super Legislature. [Reuters] * After the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to foreign knockoffs, IP lawyers are left “questioning” what’s left. [Bloomberg Law News] * Fake money leads to real federal fraud charges. […]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.13.23
* The FTC is appealing its case against the Microsoft-Activision merger. There’s a lot of talk about the FTC “failing” but even in losing they forced Microsoft to publicly claim it wouldn’t make key franchises XBox exclusives and… that’s a victory in itself. Successful litigation doesn’t have to end in a win to have been a smart case to bring. [Law360]
* But, because everything is stupid now, the FTC is going to get grilled in a congressional hearing. [Reuters]
* Gun ban in state parks upheld because the law has never been enforced and may never be… haven’t these people heard of 303 Creative? You don’t need any of that anymore. [Hartford Courant]
* Allen & Overy’s managing partner has stepped down in the midst of the Shearman merger negotiations. [Bloomberg Law News]
* The Titanic sub disaster underscores the need for robust anti-SLAPP laws. [Daily Beast]
* NCBE unveils its nextgen bar exam questions. They are not much better than the existing questions. [Law.com]
* A new wrinkle in the hybrid office reality: small firms sharing office space. A new ethics opinion deals with this issue and hopefully settles who gets to decide if the toilet paper is overhanded or underhanded. [ABA Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.12.23
* In bothsideism push, conservatives are hyping that Sotomayor’s book tour makes hosts purchase copies. Putting aside that this is how book tours work everywhere, the complaint underscores that Alito and Thomas defenders think the problem is “justices making money” as opposed to “justices getting paid by parties trying to influence the judges.” [AP]
* Lawsuit brought against Idaho’s abortion travel ban. [Law.com]
* It’s not just law firms forcing people back to in-person work just because old partners feel lonely. Judges are willing to let the wheels of justice grind if it gives them some playmates throughout the day. [New York Law Journal]
* “Judges Confused by Supreme Court’s Historical Test for Gun Laws.” It can be confusing if you get tripped up on the “historical” part. But it’s really easy once you ignore all the actual history and only use the gun manufacturer fan fiction account in Bruen. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Mainstream media asking snide questions about antitrust law after Microsoft ruling. [NY Times]
* Judge Newman’s battle with the rest of the Federal Circuit now has a mediator. [Law360]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.06.23
* Employers are finally stepping up and suing health insurers for continually screwing over employees in case you’re looking for a lawsuit with the least sympathetic defendants imaginable. [Bloomberg Law News]
* It’s arraigning men… or at least one man as Walt Nauta heads to the courthouse today. [Reuters]
* AI won’t disrupt the legal world for a good while yet. [LegalCheek]
* Cop shows never read the second half of Miranda and it shows. [ProPublica]
* Did you know not to use a Sharpie for redactions? I thought everyone did, but apparently not. [Legaltech News]
* JetBlue won’t appeal antitrust loss in bid to secure larger market share a different way. [Law360]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.29.23
* While Sam Alito rewrote laws to help oil and gas exploit more land, his wife was… making land deals with oil and gas companies. But I guess that’s okay because his wife’s money isn’t “adjacent” to him because the couple is not physically “continuously connected.” [The Intercept]
* Law professor who feels persecuted because law schools hire other professors to teach classes about racism is going after a law school for having a “students of color” outreach program. By the end of the week, he’s probably going to have the Supreme Court’s backing on that one. [NY Post]
* So many of the problems facing Ron DeSantis could be solved by taking 10 minutes to read the Constitution. [CBS News]
* California’s ban on using public funds to travel to states with pro-bigotry laws on the books has hurt Black academics who can’t travel to conferences in those states. Which was the obvious outcome. Unless California plans to put resources behind bidding on and hosting all of these national conferences, the policy is always going to turn out this way. [Los Angeles Times]
* The FTC plans to file a sweeping antitrust suit against Amazon in a few weeks. It took a lot longer to deliver than a Prime package, but it’s worth the wait. [Bloomberg Law News]
* UK law firms worried that ChatGPT might be writing job applications. Oh no! How will firms survive once AI learns to write “I think my greatest weakness is that I care too much about the work.” [Law.com International]
* “Privacy Suit Says AI Could ‘Decide To Eliminate The Species.'” Or worse: cover letters. [Law360]