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Cozen Currents: To the Victors Goes the Process

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The Cozen Lens - •If either party sweeps control of the federal government in November, pressure will be high to reform the filibuster. •The embrace of populism among Democrats and Republicans has made antitrust...more

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[Webinar] Notable Trends in US Privacy Law - January 17th, 12:00 pm EST

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Join privacy and compliance expert Chris Wall from HaystackID as he leads an insightful webcast exploring the key developments and trends impacting privacy laws and regulations across the United States. Companies face new...more

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DOJ Withdraws Healthcare Antitrust Policy Statements

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Antitrust Division, recently withdrew three sets of guidelines that had been relied upon heavily by the healthcare industry: the 1993 Antitrust Enforcement Policy Statements Issued for...more

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[Webinar] China Data Protection Legislation in the Making: Implications Beyond China’s Borders - June 29th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

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China's draft Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) has just gone through the second reading and is now near final form and expected to be finalized very soon. Once promulgated, it will be the first comprehensive law on...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 5.12.2021 | Top Story: Fed Stands Pat on Strategy Despite Inflation Worries Roiling Markets

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Despite the reemergence of inflation and bubbles as the concerns-of-the-day that caused markets to quiver their way to a 3-month low yesterday, Fed officials remained committed to their “wait and see” strategy on removing...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Senate Democrat Introduces Sweeping Antitrust Legislation

On Thursday, February 4, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, announced the introduction of a sweeping antitrust reform...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.26.2021 | Top Story: Apollo Global Ousts Leon Black as CEO Over Epstein Ties

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Private equity behemoth Apollo Global Management’s CEO, Leon Black, is stepping down after an outside inquiry by Dechert—“ordered by the firm’s board at Mr. Black’s behest in October”—revealed that Black “had paid more than...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.20.2021 | Top Story: Netflix Hits 200M Subscribers, Halts Massive Borrowing

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During its Q4 earnings report yesterday, Netflix announced a significant departure from past practice: it’s done borrowing money (for now, at least). After borrowing “over $16 billion to feed its titanic appetite for content”...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.18.2020 | Top Story: States Unveil Yet Another Antitrust Action Against Google Over Search Dominance

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Another day, another new Google antitrust lawsuit—this time thanks to a group of 30-plus states that have accused the company of “illegally arranging its search results to push out smaller rivals.” Oh, and money likely won’t...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.7.2020 | Top Story: November Hiring Well Below Expectations as Employment Recovery Stalls

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Friday’s jobs report was not only 200,000 jobs below projections for November, but it marked the fifth straight month of a diminished pace of hiring in the United States and brought urgency to facing the reality that there...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.22.2020 | Top Story: OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma to Plead Guilty, Pay $8.3B for Role in Opioid Crisis

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The Justice Department on Wednesday announced an $8.3 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma as part of a deal in which the company will plead guilty to criminal charges “related to its marketing of the addictive painkiller”...more

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The New Name, Image and Likeness Playing Field for Colleges and Universities – What You Need to Know

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Prior to 2015, student athletes were not permitted by NCAA rules to exploit commercially their name, image and likeness (“NIL”).  However, the decision that year in O’Bannon v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass’n, 802 F.3d...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.8.2020 | Top Story: Feds fine Citi $400M over “Longstanding” Governance Failures

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Federal regulators—including the Federal Reserve and the OCC—have fined Citigroup $400 million over “longstanding” failures in the areas of risk management, data governance, and internal controls. In addition to the fine, the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.1.2020 | Top Story: Palantir and Asana Make Strong Showing In Direct Listing Public Debut

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Palantir’s direct listing experiment generally went well yesterday, with the company’s shares beginning trading up nearly 40% from the $7.25 reference price set Tuesday evening. Fellow direct lister Asana also had a good...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Price Gouging Weekly Round Up - August 2020 #3

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Price gouging enforcement and litigation is front and center for company counsel and business managers nationwide. Our weekly round up highlights some of the most relevant news and information to our clients and friends. ...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Week in Weed: June 2020 #4

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. We begin with the claim that the Justice Department brought antitrust actions against cannabis companies due to...more

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Compliance Notes – Vol. 1, Issue 6

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Welcome to Volume 1, Issue 6 of Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes, and court cases involving campaign finance,...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

COVID-19 Update: Antitrust Enforcement Remains Robust Despite COVID-19

Many clients have asked about the state of federal antitrust enforcement during the current pandemic. We can tell you this: the Agencies are taking longer to clear or challenge deals, but the level of antitrust enforcement,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Congress Considering New Federal Price Gouging Laws

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Congress has begun igniting its legislative engine to create a federal framework to prohibit price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic. Until now, price gouging has mainly been the province of state laws....more

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Food & Beverage Litigation Update l February 2020

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - Virginia Law Limiting Use of “Milk” Advances - Following a vote in the Virginia House Agriculture Subcommittee, the state’s House of Delegates will reportedly consider a bill that...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Deep Dive on Deep Learning: FTC Considers Artificial Intelligence

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Seventh Hearing on Competition and Consumer Protection considers ethical, practical, and legal dimensions of artificial intelligence and machine learning. On November 13 and 14, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held the...more

Hogan Lovells

Antitrust, Competition, and Economic Regulation Quarterly Newsletter - Summer 2018

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Read the latest news on antitrust, competition, and economic regulation in this summer edition of our quarterly ACER newsletter. ...more

Troutman Pepper

No-Poach Agreements Targeted by Plaintiffs, Enforcement Agencies and Senators

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Agreements among companies to not hire each other’s workers are more risky than ever. The DOJ’s Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, stated on January 19 that the division has criminal cases...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Senate Passes the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act, and Takes Another Shot at Increased Protections for Whistleblowers

On November 15, 2017, the United States Senate passed the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2017 (“CAARA”). This Act would amend the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 (“ACPERA”), and would...more

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Senate Democrats Introduce “Better Deal” Antitrust Enforcement Legislation

As part of the effort to rebrand the party and reconnect with working-class voters who were lost in the presidential election, congressional Democrats revealed a new populist policy agenda, titled “A Better Deal: Better Jobs,...more

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