Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section

Join us for the 29th Annual Antitrust, UCL and Privacy Section Golden State Institute & Antitrust Lawyer of the Year Reception and Dinner on November 14, 2019 in San Francisco. Read more

The California Consumers Privacy Act (CCPA) represents a quantum leap in US privacy, and the core of that change is the expansive concept of personal information. Read more

With the widespread use of social media among all generations, vast amounts of publicly available data exist that automated bots can scrape information from and provide to other companies Read more

On September 10, 2019 the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to counter-defendant Intellectual Ventures by district courts in Maryland and Virginia. Read more

The Antitrust, UCL and Privacy Section is currently recruiting attorneys and law students to participate in the 2019-2020 Mentorship Program. You may apply to be a mentor, mentee, or both. If you are interested in joining the Mentorship Program, you must complete the following questionnaire(s) no later than Friday, September 6, 2019. Read more

Penelope A. Preovolos, the 2019 “Antitrust Lawyer of the Year” and a partner at Morrison & Foerster, will discuss why she became a competition lawyer – and stayed one. In this fireside chat, Penelope will be interviewed by antitrust litigator (and Hastings alum) Francis O. Scarpulla. Read more

Penelope A. Preovolos, the 2019 “Antitrust Lawyer of the Year” and a partner at Morrison & Foerster, will discuss why she became a competition lawyer – and stayed one. Read more

Bob Connolly Law Office Of Robert Connolly Judge Beth Labson Freeman recently denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment in an indirect purchaser’s complaint alleging a price-fixing conspiracy among the major suppliers of titanium dioxide. Home Depot, U.S.A., Inc. v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Company, et al., Case No. 16-cv-04865-BLF; 2019 WL 3804667 (N.D. Cal. 8/13/2019) .  In a similar suit brought by the direct purchasers of titanium oxide, the District Court for the District of Maryland denied the defendants’… Read more

Harrison (Buzz) Frahn IV, John Goheen, Geoff Schmelkin Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP On July 25, 2019, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero of the Northern District of California granted a motion to dismiss the antitrust suit brought by the City of Oakland (“Oakland”) against the Oakland Raiders (the “Raiders”), the National Football League (“NFL”), and all thirty-one other NFL teams over the Raiders’ planned relocation to Las Vegas.  City of Oakland v. Oakland Raiders, et al., No. 18-cv-07444-JCS, 2019… Read more

In re: National Football League's “Sunday Ticket” Antitrust Litig., — F.3d —-, No. 17-56119, 2019 WL 3788253 (9th Cir. Aug. 16, 2019) [Sunday Ticket] Lesley E. Weaver, Anne K. Davis, and Joshua S. Samra Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP SUMMARY Sunday Ticket, a putative antitrust class action by commercial and residential DirecTV subscribers (hereinafter, the “Plaintiffs”) on appeal to the Ninth Circuit from the Central District of California’s dismissal, alleges that the out-of-market game telecasting arrangements between the National Football… Read more