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Price Fixing

A Roundup of the Current Legislative Response to the Prospect of Algorithmic Price Fixing

Philip A. Giordano (Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP)/March 6, 2025March 6, 2025

Legislators at many levels of government in the United States have proposed prohibiting the use of software algorithms that depend on non-public data from competitors to assist sellers in making…

Department of Justice Antitrust Division

DOJ Fugitive Page (And the Fugitive Disentitlement Doctrine)

Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)/February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

Recently the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and the FBI jointly announced the launch of a new online portal for information on international fugitives who have been charged with antitrust offenses…

Department of Justice Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice

What If There Was No Per Se Rule in Criminal Cases?

Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)/January 16, 2025January 16, 2025

The Supreme Court has now denied cert in three different challenges to the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases, the latest being the denial of the cross-cert petition by…

Department of Justice Antitrust Division

Supreme Court Set To Make Cert Decision On Per Se Battle

Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)/November 7, 2024November 7, 2024

On February 1, 2022, Brent Brewbaker, a former executive of Contech Engineered Solutions LLC was convicted by a jury for his participation in bid-rigging and fraud schemes targeting the North…

Price Fixing

The Reasons Some Courts Have Dismissed Antitrust Claims in the Latest Revenue Management Software Litigation

Philip A. Giordano (Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP)/September 12, 2024September 12, 2024

Federal and state antitrust enforcers and the private plaintiffs’ bar have revenue management software (RMS) squarely in their sights. In a string of recent antitrust cases, they have attacked software…

Department of Justice Antitrust Division

What’s New in U.S. Criminal Antitrust Enforcement? Cases Against Cartels in Local Markets

Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)/September 5, 2024September 5, 2024

In the last 12 months, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division has announced 19 new criminal cases. All of the cases focused on local markets. While this is not entirely…

Department of Justice Antitrust Division

A Modest Proposal—Antitrust Division Special Counsel for Whistleblower

Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)/May 9, 2024May 9, 2024

There has been a series of announcements by the Department of Justice of pilot programs designed to lure “insiders” to expose crimes, particularly financial crimes. The first announcement was a…

Antitrust-General

If I Were You…I’d Listen to this Podcast about Residential Real Estate & Antitrust

Molly Donovan and Aaron Gott (Bona Law)/April 5, 2024April 6, 2024

This Episode Is About: Residential Real Estate and Antitrust Why: A settlement has been reached between the National Association of Realtors (or NAR) and the class action plaintiffs that would…

Department of Justice Antitrust Division

You Are A Competitor If You Say So–My Disagreement with Fourth Circuit’s Brewbaker Opinion

Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)/December 13, 2023December 14, 2023

I have not written a blog post in some time. Been busy, or perhaps a bit lazy, but the Fourth Circuit opinion in United States v. Brewbaker, __ F. 4th…

FTC Enforcement

Bamboozled?

Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)/January 27, 2023January 27, 2023

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding…

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