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Reliance on Third-Party “Pricing” Facilitators Under Increasing Antitrust Scrutiny

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In the past year, healthcare systems and providers across the country have filed a series of antitrust lawsuits against MultiPlan Inc. and major US health insurers, alleging a hub-and-spoke conspiracy to fix and reduce...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Informed Board - Summer 2024

Across industries, companies are facing new and uncertain regulatory pressures and demands in areas including artificial intelligence, sustainability, algorithmic pricing and fintech-bank relations. In this issue of The...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

DOJ Takes Aim at AI-Powered Rent Prices

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and eight state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against real estate software company RealPage on August 23, 2024. The lawsuit alleges that RealPage’s algorithmic pricing...more

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The DOJ's Lawsuit Against RealPage: Unpacking the Allegations and Implications for the Rental Market

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and eight state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against real estate software company RealPage, alleging that its algorithmic pricing system has contributed to widespread...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up: 2024 Mid-Year Global Review

At the mid-year point, 2024 is shaping up to be an eventful year in cartel enforcement. In the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Antitrust Division (Division) enjoyed two significant victories and finally...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Care, AI and Antitrust: Analysis and Next Steps

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to permeate the health care industry (and every other part of American life), the industry should be attentive to the risk of anticompetitive conduct arising from reliance on AI and...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Full Steam Ahead for Cartel Enforcement in 2024

As anticipated, cartel enforcement is ramping up at the start of 2024 and investigations relating to artificial intelligence (AI) are taking center stage. Leadership of both the broader Department of Justice (DOJ) and the...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

DOJ Warns Against Unintelligent Use of Artificial Intelligence

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The Department of Justice is stepping up its focus on artificial intelligence (“AI”), with officials warning that harsher penalties could be in store for those who deliberately misuse the technology to commit white collar...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

DOJ Deputy Chief Announces “Stiffer Sentences” for AI-Related White-Collar Crime — AI: The Washington Report

Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco’s March 7, 2024, speech addressed the agency’s current enforcement stance towards AI. In the speech, Monaco reiterated that there are no AI exemptions to the...more

The Volkov Law Group

Justice Department Focuses on Artificial Intelligence Assisted Crime

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In the face of rapid technology changes, the Department of Justice usually has to play catch up.  When cryptocurrency and blockchain entered the United States economy, the Justice Department played catch up.  Fraudsters and...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco Announces DOJ’s Approach to AI

On February 14, 2024, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced two important developments related to the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) as it relates to the work of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). First,...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

Senators Propose Clarification of Antitrust Law to Expressly Cover Algorithmic Collusion — AI: The Washington Report

1. Following up on a December 2023 hearing on algorithmic price-fixing and self-preferencing, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced a...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up: What to Watch in 2024

The year 2023 ended with a bang in the cartel space, with a federal court of appeals upending what was long believed to be the scope of conduct that should be considered per se under the Sherman Act. The new year, 2024,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Algorithmic Pricing – The ‘New Frontier’ of Antitrust Law

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Summary - Government antitrust enforcers and plaintiffs’ class action lawyers are increasingly focusing on algorithmic pricing software programs used in various sectors of the real estate market. Driving this focus is...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

Senators Consider Reforms to Antitrust Law to Address Algorithmic Price-Fixing and Self-Preferencing — AI: The Washington Report

Welcome to this week's issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies. This week, we discuss the Senate Judiciary Committee’s December 13, 2023 hearing...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Sights and Sounds from the Antitrust Section’s 2023 Spring Meeting

Antitrust practitioners from around the world gathered in Washington, D.C. the week of March 27, 2023, for a series of industry meetings, centered around the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s 71st Annual Spring...more

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OTA & Travel Distribution Update - Price-fixing fines imposed against FlightCentre; Red Lion's unorthodox approach to loyalty;...

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This week’s OTA & Travel Distribution Update for the week ending April 6, 2018 is below. A variety of stories are featured in this week’s Update, including an interesting follow up story on Red Lion’s somewhat unique (and...more

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