U.S. Supreme Court

Class Actions, FTC Enforcement, Mergers and Acquisitions, Monopolization

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Some U.S. Supreme Court watchers may have been disappointed that the Court on the last day of the October 2011 term–according to the Court’s calendar–did not decide the fate of President Obama’s health care overhaul legislation. That decision is most likely to come within the next three days, before the Court wraps up for the…

Antitrust Exemptions & Immunity, FTC Enforcement, Mergers and Acquisitions

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The next Term may see significant SCOTUS consideration of the state action immunity, the first such case since 1992. The decision below in the defendants’ favor was quite plainly wrong, and so it might also become only the second antitrust case in twenty years in which the Court has ruled for a plaintiff.  That would…