Stacy Mitchell

Dec 12, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Stacy Mitchell

On Tuesday, the federal government succeeded in doing something that it hasn’t done, or even seriously tried to do, in decades: It persuaded a court to block one large supermarket chain from acquiring another.

Dec 5, 2024 | gibsondunn.com | Stacy Mitchell

Client Alert  |  December 5, 2024 On December 3, 2024, a federal district court in Texas ruled that the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is likely unconstitutional and preliminarily enjoined its enforcement nationwide. Accordingly, the rule’s requirements cannot currently be enforced against entities that would otherwise be subject to the rule.

Dec 2, 2024 | ilsr.org | Stacy Mitchell

While many have long believed that food deserts arise in areas that just can’t attract a grocery store, Stacy Mitchell argues in The Atlantic that the modern food desert is actually a result of the federal government’s early-1980s decision to stop enforcing the Robinson-Patman Act. In fact, there’s ample evidence that before the 1980s, many neighborhoods that are now food deserts actually had a diverse and competitive grocery landscape.

Dec 1, 2024 | msn.com | Stacy Mitchell

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Dec 1, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Stacy Mitchell

The concept of the food desert has been around long enough that it feels almost like a fact of nature. Tens of millions of Americans live in low-income communities with no easy access to fresh groceries, and the general consensus is that these places just don’t have what it takes to attract and sustain a supermarket. They’re either too poor or too sparsely populated to generate sufficient spending on groceries, or they can’t overcome a racist pattern of corporate redlining.