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Poorly crafted antitrust reforms are the last thing California needs | Opinion
18+ hour, 29+ min ago (336+ words) California faces serious economic challenges " including mounting private-sector job losses, stagnating consumer spending and the nation's highest unemployment rate. In a recent analysis, the California Center for Jobs & the Economy warned of deep structural problems that, if left unaddressed, risk…...
Justice Official Says He Wants to Avoid Antitrust Trials
23+ hour, 40+ min ago (117+ words) A top Justice Department official has told antitrust enforcers he prefers they stop taking cases to trial and instead seek to settle them," the Wall Street Journal reports. Some lawyers at the department interpreted the comments from Stanley Woodward, the…...
Back to Basics? Merger Remedies at the FTC And DOJ in Trump 2. 0
1+ day, 52+ min ago (97+ words) CPI | Back to Basics? Merger Remedies at the FTC And DOJ in Trump 2. 0 PYMNTS. com This article examines the evolving approach to merger remedies under the second Trump Administration. The authors describe a return to a more conventional enforcement philosophy…...
The Structural Directive: Vindicating the High Purpose of the Antitrust Laws
1+ day, 53+ min ago (94+ words) PYMNTS. com After more than a decade of vigorous advocacy by policy analysts, journalists, and legal scholars, federal and state enforcers finally found the political will to initiate numerous antitrust enforcement actions under Section 2 of the Sherman Act'the antitrust provision…...
Red Light, Yellow Light: Prior Approval and Prior Notice in FTC Merger Remedies
1+ day, 52+ min ago (109+ words) PYMNTS. com Prior approval and prior notice provisions have emerged as one of the most contested features of merger consent orders in recent years. In 2021, the FTC under Lina Khan reinstated prior approval and prior notice provisions as a standard…...
Trump taps telecom regulatory lawyer as DOJ antitrust head
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (479+ words) Adam Candeub, the FCC's general counsel with deep telecom roots, is set to take over the division overseeing blockbuster cases against Google, Apple, and Visa. The White House is preparing to nominate Adam Candeub, currently the General Counsel at the…...
Senator Warren Threatens Reversal of Paramount-Warner Merger
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (307+ words) Senator Elizabeth Warren warns the USD 111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger could be reversed amid national security and monopoly concerns. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has issued a severe warning that the highly controversial USD 111 billion (KES 14. 5 trillion) merger between Paramount Skydance…...
Rep. Jim Jordan details House probe in NFL, broadcasting & media rights deals
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (15+ words) National Desk...
Paramount Denies It Would Scuttle CNN to Appease Trump as Merger Nears EU Approval
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (669+ words) Paramount is denying reports that CEO David Ellison and his father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, promised the Trump administration they would overhaul CNN as part of their $111 billion equity acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns the venerable news organization…...
Best of Times, Worst of Times: House Panel Debates Airline Competition, Consolidation
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (680+ words) Lawmakers and experts put forward two dramatically different evaluations of the U. S. airline industry at a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday. But to the subcommittee's Democrats, the airline sector has taken a massive step backwards. Carriers are increasingly acting as a cartel,…...