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Dec 3, 2024 | 
businessandamerica.com | Elizabeth Haas
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Benjamin Dryden |Kate E. Gehl |Elizabeth Haas
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 blog references a Statement of Interest that it and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) (together, the Agencies) filed earlier that same day in Duffy v. Yardi Systems, Inc. in the Western District of Washington.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Elizabeth Haas |Ian Hampton |Tim Patterson
A recent opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reinstates allegations against McDonald’s that no-poach provisions in the company’s franchise agreements violate the antitrust laws, holding that such provisions may be per se illegal. Until 2017, McDonald’s franchise agreements included so-called no-poach provisions barring franchisees from hiring or soliciting another franchise’s employee until six months after the employee left the other franchise.
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Aug 26, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Elizabeth Haas
The author had a long history with Frances Hesselbein, going back to Frances’s years as CEO Girl Scouts of the USA. She knew her through good times and exceedingly challenging ones. She writes, “Frances often said, ‘leadership is who you are, not what you do;’ but what she did at the vanguard of key social movements in the second half of the last century and the first two decades of this century made a real difference to our society.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Elizabeth Haas |Ian Hampton |Diane Hazel
For the first time in 40 years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken action to enforce Section 8 of the Clayton Act, which prohibits so-called interlocking directorates.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Benjamin Dryden |Richard Flannery |Elizabeth Haas
On July 19, 2023, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (together, the Agencies) released a draft set of revised Merger Guidelines (the Revised Guidelines) to set forth the Agencies’ current view of the state of antitrust merger enforcement.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Benjamin Dryden |Richard Flannery |Elizabeth Haas
On June 27, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), with the concurrence of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, announced a wide range of significant proposed changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) pre-merger notification and report form.
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Jun 2, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Benjamin Dryden |Elizabeth Haas
This article was originally published in Law360 on June 1, 2023, and is republished here with permission. The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently issued a long-anticipated ruling in an antitrust challenge to the so-called Northeast Alliance, or NEA, between American Airlines Group Inc. and JetBlue Airways Corp.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
law360.com | Benjamin Dryden |Elizabeth Haas
By Benjamin Dryden and Elizabeth Haas (June 1, 2023, 2:45 PM EDT) -- The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently issued a long-anticipated ruling in an antitrust challenge to the so-called Northeast Alliance, or NEA, between American Airlines Group Inc. and JetBlue Airways Corp.... Stay ahead of the curveIn the legal profession, information is the key to success. You have to know what's happening with clients, competitors, practice areas, and industries.
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Mar 30, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Kate E. Gehl |Elizabeth Haas
Foley Forward: Trends 2023Manufacturing companies should actively prepare for heightened antitrust scrutiny of their business practices in 2023, including practices that have not traditionally garnered the focus of the federal antitrust enforcers. Employee noncompetes have recently come under fire from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
