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Health Care Antitrust Update Part II: Recent Federal and State Enforcement Initiatives and Litigation Involving the FTC’s...

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Over the past several months, antitrust enforcement activity in the healthcare provider sector has continued to steadily increase. In Part I of this two-part update, we discussed recent lawsuits involving private equity...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

California Considers Expanding State Antitrust Prohibitions

Big changes to California’s state antitrust law, called the Cartwright Act, may be in the works. These changes, if enacted, would represent a significant departure from current antitrust law, prohibiting otherwise lawful...more

Troutman Pepper

California DOJ to Ramp Up Criminal Antitrust Enforcement

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On March 6, the California Department of Justice’s (California DOJ) Antitrust Chief Paula Blizzard, announced at the American Bar Association’s National Institute on White Collar Crime that her office is planning to...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

The California Supreme Court Clarifies Section 16600 as Applied to Business Contracts and Holds That an Independently Wrongful Act...

The most powerful tool capable of invalidating competitive restraints under California law is Business and Professions Code section 16600. That statute states that “[e]very contract by which anyone is restrained from...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

The California Attorney General and Sutter Health Face Off in an Antitrust Lawsuit

On March 29, 2018, the Attorney General of California filed an antitrust action against Sutter Health and its affiliates (“Sutter”) alleging Sutter engaged in various anticompetitive conduct in violation of California’s...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CA Supreme Court Issues First Decision Extending FTC v. Actavis to State Antitrust Litigation

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The California Supreme Court issued a decision today in the Cipro antitrust cases, concluding that the analysis set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court in FTC v. Actavis applies to alleged “pay-for-delay” pharmaceutical patent...more

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