Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section

The Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section hosts the Golden State Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law Institute (GSI) each year at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco. This is the Section’s marquee event and brings together private and public sector attorneys, academics, experts, judges, and law students for a multi-session conference on recent developments in the law, trials, and enforcement, followed by a cocktail reception and dinner honoring the California Antitrust Lawyer of the Year. Read more

Hoon Chun has been a prosecutor with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for twenty-eight years, most recently as Head Deputy of the Consumer Protection Division. The Consumer Protection Division files a variety of civil enforcement actions with a set of common themes and goals: Read more

<< back to the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section homepage The Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section is pleased to announce that Marshall Fern is the 2022 recipient of its Inclusion and Diversity Fellowship. As part of the Fellowship award, Marshall has secured a summer internship at the California Department of Justice’s Healthcare Rights and Access Section, Competition Unit, and an educational stipend of $10,000.  Apart from the internship, Marshall will participate in and contribute to the CLA’s Antitrust… Read more

The Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law Section’s brand new UCL Institute will feature leading UCL practitioners from across the private and public sector. Read more

Welcome to a to the July-August 2022 edition of E-Briefs, News and Notes. We recently issued a Special Edition of E-Briefs, News and Notes devoted to providing application information for law students and current judicial law clerks who may be interested in a position with a government enforcement agency. Read more

WELCOME to a Special Edition of E-Briefs, News and Notes devoted to providing application information for law students and current judicial law clerks who may be interested in a position with a government enforcement agency. Many agencies such as the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and California Attorney General’s Office have Honors Program hiring. Read more

Welcome to the June E-Briefs, News and Notes. We have included a new section, Other Notable Cases, where we flag additional judicial opinions but instead of a full E-Brief, we have a short summary describing the main antitrust/unfair competition issue in the case so that you may read the opinion if it is relevant to your practice. This issue also has three panel summaries from the May 2022 Antitrust and Unfair Competition Section of the California Lawyers Association Golden State… Read more

Welcome to the May 2022 E-briefs, News and Notes. Read more

The Antitrust Division has been aggressively investigating collusive wage-fixing and no-poach agreements in labor markets and bringing criminal cases when they believe a “naked” (not ancillary to a procompetitive agreement) agreement has been uncovered. The Antitrust Division recently suffered two consecutive setbacks in its initial labor market collusion jury trials. On April 14, 2022, a Texas federal jury returned not guilty verdicts Read more

On March 29, 2022, the Judge Rogers from the Northern District of California denied Consumer Plaintiffs’ motion for class certification without prejudice and then granted in part and denied in part Apple’s Daubert motion to exclude expert testimony. As a refresher given the amount of on-going Apple litigation, this specific Apple litigation relates to Consumer Plaintiffs’ claims that Apple charges developers on the App Store supracompetitive commissions, which are then passed to consumers in the form of increased prices for app downloads or subscriptions. Order Denying Plaintiffs’ Motion for Class Certification Without Prejudice, In re Apple iPhone Antitrust Litigation, case no. 11-cv-6714-YGR (March 29, 2022 N.D. Cal.). Read more