US Antitrust Cases
Antitrust Antidote, a quarterly review of significant US antitrust decisions from legal and economic perspectives, by Koren W. Wong-Ervin, Jeremy Sandford, Nathan Wilson and Jeremy Kauffman. 10 reviews since 1 March 2024.
The reviews
Newest first- No. 10
25 June 2026Antitrust Antidote: April-June 2026
There were a number of significant decisions from April through June 2026, including: (1) the Eastern District of California’s preliminary injunction in In re Nexstar-Tegna Merger Litigation, requiring hold-separate relief notwithstanding prior DOJ and FCC approval of the…
- No. 9
29 April 2026 - No. 8
22 December 2025Antitrust Antidote: October-December 2025
There were a number of decisions from October through December 2025, including: (1) FTC v. Meta, in which the court relied heavily on experimental field study research in concluding that Meta is not a monopolist; (2) Bakay et al. v. Apple, in which the Ninth Circuit affirmed…
- No. 7
7 October 2025Antitrust Antidote: June-September 2025
There were a number of decisions from June through September 2025 including: (1) a fifth recent decision (U.S. et al. v. Apple) refusing to apply the more defense-friendly refusal-to-deal standard; (2) yet another lower court decision (involving the “famed” Hermès Birkin bag)…
- No. 6
25 June 2025Antitrust Antidote: March-June 2025
There were a number of decisions from March through June 2025 including: (1) a Ninth Circuit win by Microsoft and Activision in the FTC’s suit challenging the vertical integration between the two companies; (2) two district court decisions (U.S. et al. v. Google Ad Tech and…
- No. 5
14 April 2025 - No. 4
27 December 2024Antitrust Antidote: October-December 2024
There were a number of decisions from October-December 2024, including: Given the incoming Trump Administration and the possibility that the 2023 Merger Guidelines will be revised (and perhaps significantly), it is particularly noteworthy that several courts have now relied on…
- No. 3
14 October 2024Antitrust Antidote: June-September 2024
In re: NFL “Sunday Ticket” Antitrust Litig. (C.D.Cal August 2024) Classes of commercial and residential subscribers to NFL Sunday Ticket sued the NFL and its teams, asserting antitrust harm relating to the NFL’s bundling of out-of-market games, i.e., those not involving a team…
- No. 2
5 June 2024Antitrust Antidote: March-May 2024
There were a number of decisions from April-May 2024, covering topics such as (1) the use of the SSNIP test in monopolization (as opposed to merger) cases, which raises the issue of the proper benchmark for the competitive price; (2) the proper methodologies for damages models…
- No. 1
1 March 2024Antitrust Antidote: December 2023-February 2024
There were a number of significant developments from the end of 2023 through the beginning of 2024 covering important (and highly debated) topics, such as: (1) the role of contracting as an alternative to vertical integration when determining whether benefits such as the…