Topic
Antitrust Exemptions
36 published works
Antitrust Advocate
Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption Marks Its 100th Anniversary with a New Challenge
By Carl Hittinger, Tyson Herrold
For more than a century, minor league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB) have thrived in a symbiotic relationship. Minor league teams affiliate with major league teams for financial support…
Agricultural Law Weekly Review
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—Week Ending February 4, 2022
Antitrust: Federal Court Finds Pennsylvania Mushroom Cooperative Not Entitled to Antitrust ProtectionOn January 26, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued an order and opinion…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
The Commission’s Initiative on Shielding Collective Bargaining From Antitrust Scrutiny
On January 6, 2021, the Commission published an inception impact assessment[1] on its latest policy initiative: allowing for more collective bargaining under EU antitrust rules to improve working conditions for…
The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Baseball and the Antitrust Laws Part IV: Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption
By Bona Law PC
Author: Luke Hasskamp This article—the fourth in a series—addresses some of the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision in Federal Baseball Club v. National League, where the Court unanimously held…
The Antitrust Attorney Blog
The Amicus Brief is an Important Advocacy Tool for Both the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice in State-Action Immunity Cases
By Bona Law PC
Author: Luis Blanquez We’ve discussed the state action doctrine many times in the past. The courts have interpreted the federal antitrust laws as providing a limited exemption from the antitrust…
The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Baseball and the Antitrust Laws Part II: The Owners Strike Back (and Strike Out)
By Bona Law PC
Author: Luke Hasskamp This is the second of a series of articles examining some of the interesting intersections between the law and baseball, with a focus on baseball’s exemption from…
Health Law Rx
Antitrust Exemption Allows Health System to Avoid All Claims for Damages in Antitrust Class Action
Atrium Health (formerly known as Carolinas Healthcare System) scored a big victory in its defense of an antitrust class action on March 4, when the Court ruled that the plaintiffs…
The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Is Insurance Really Exempt from the U.S. Antitrust Laws?
By Bona Law PC
In many instances, conduct involving the business of insurance is, indeed, exempt from antitrust liability. So why does insurance sometimes get a free pass? In 1945, Congress passed a law…
Labor & Employment Insights
The (Exempt) Boys of Summer: 9th Circuit Upholds Minor League Baseball Antitrust Exemption in Wage Suit
Does Major League Baseball’s (MLB) farm league system violate federal antitrust laws? Not according to the 9th Circuit. As written about in this previous post from July 2016 and one from…
Focus on Regulation
Lost in the woods? Special treatment for the press, cooperative and savings bank associations and the timber industry in German Competition Act reform
By Jan Eggers
Current legislative changes in the German Competition Act and the Federal Forest Act bring a set of new antitrust exemptions. We briefly present them in our blog: 1. Cooperation between…