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Blog of Reason’s Month-In-Review: Recent and Noteworthy Trends in Antitrust and Consumer Protection
By Gabriella E. Bensur, Robert Langer, Caitlyn Doerr, Jessica Puterman
KEY TAKEAWAYS The past few weeks have seen many interesting antitrust and consumer protection developments. Among them: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) revised the Justice Manual to update its…
Balkinization
The Fragility of Our Private Enforcement Republic
By guestbloggerbalkin-blogspot-com
For the Balkinization symposium on Diego Zambrano, How Americans Enforce the Law (Stanford University Press, 2026).Myriam Gilles IntroductionWhen the German car manufacturer Volkswagen finally confessed in 2015 to having installed “defeat devices”…
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Old debates die hard: FTC Commissioner Meador argues for reviving Section 5’s standalone authority
By Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
The debate over the scope of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) enforcement authority under Section 5 of the FTC Act shows no signs of abating. The core of the debate…
Truth on the Market
Checkout Error: A Bad Grocery Plan Meets a Weak Antitrust Case
I’ve criticized plenty of private antitrust cases. This may be the first in which the plaintiffs sued to stop a genuinely bad idea—and I still think they should lose. That…
Entertainment Law Resources
Twelve States Sue to Block Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger
On July 13, 2026, the attorneys general of twelve states filed a federal antitrust complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking to permanently…
Truth on the Market
Antitrust Standing Room Only
By Onyeka Aralu
Antitrust law does not hand out damages just because someone got hurt in the general vicinity of an antitrust violation. A plaintiff must show more than bad conduct, more than…
Truth on the Market
The Case of the Vanishing Competitor
By Alden Abbott
Spirit Airlines was supposed to be the competitor antitrust law saved. Instead, it may become the cautionary tale antitrust law cannot quite avoid. The carrier’s disappearance has transformed the JetBlue-Spirit…
Entertainment Law Resources
The Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery Merger: An Antitrust Case for Rejection
I. IntroductionIn February 2026, Paramount Global signed a $110 billion agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, setting the stage for one of the largest media combinations in recent memory.1 The…
Sports Law Expert
NFL Wins Motion To Dismiss In Unusual Social Media Antitrust Case
By Holt Hackney
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer A modern twist on an old axiom is that those with the gold get sued in today’s sports’ world. A recent example just played out…
Truth on the Market
Acquihires and Antitrust: When Buying the Team Isn’t Buying the Company
By Onyeka Aralu
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has trained its sights on one of Silicon Valley’s most familiar deal structures: the “acquihire.” In a Bloomberg podcast interview, FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said…