Antitrust in the News

In an order and opinion denying a motion for preliminary approval of class action settlement, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California found the proposed settlement in Arena v. Intuit Inc., Case No. 19-cv-02546-CRB, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 41994(N.D. Cal. Mar. 5, 2021) was not fair, reasonable, and adequate, and therefore did not satisfy Rule 23(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which requires the Court to approve class action settlements in light of due process concerns for absent class members. Read more

Welcome to the November E-briefs, News and Notes. This edition includes E-Briefs authored by Jonathan Levine, Pritzker Levine LLP, Kerry C. Klein, Farmer Brownstein Jaeger Goldstein Klein & Siegel LLP and Bob Connolly, Law Office of Robert Connolly. The Agency Update section includes links to numerous DOJ/FTC press releases. Read more

Welcome to the October E-briefs, News and Notes. This edition includes an important Unfair Competition/Antitrust e-brief (Epic v. Apple) written by Kerry C. Klein. Other e-briefs are by Christina Tusan and William Pletcher, Lily L. Purqurian, and Bob Connolly. Read more

Welcome to the September E-briefs, News and Notes. We hope you find this edition useful. I want to thank Anthony Leon for contributing an E-brief.  E-briefs is in need of additional volunteer authors.  If you would like to be on the email list of attorneys to whom I send out requests for help, please let me know. There is no obligation to take on any particular case, but if you get the email messages about e-briefs, you can jump in… Read more

Welcome to the July E-briefs, News and Notes. We hope you find this edition useful. Read more

Welcome to the July E-briefs, News and Notes. We hope you find this edition useful. Read more

Welcome to the June E-briefs, News and Notes. We hope you find this edition useful. Read more

Welcome to the May E-briefs, News and Notes. We hope you find this edition useful. Read more

Antitrust And Unfair Competition Law E-Brief, News and Notes: April 2021 Read more

Antitrust Division, US DOJ Richard A. Powers Named Acting Assistant Attorney General On February 8, 2021, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Powers was designated Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. Health Care Staffing Company and Executive Indicted for Colluding to Suppress Wages of School Nurses, March 30, 2021A federal grand jury in Las Vegas, Nevada, returned an indictment charging VDA OC LLC (formerly Advantage On Call LLC), a health care staffing company, and Ryan Hee, a former… Read more