By: Jacques Buhart, Stéphane Dionnet & Frédéric Pradelles (Antitrust Alert) The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a preliminary ruling on June 29, 2023, in the case of Super Bock Bebidas vs. Autoridade da Concorrência (C-211/22), based on questions referred by the Lisbon Court of Appeal (Tribunal da Relaçao de Lisboa). While the […]

J.P. Morgan Chase reportedly aims to collect on an insurance policy after its acquisition of college aid platform Frank. The bank and Frank founder Charlie Javice are now engaged in a court battle, and J.P. Morgan Chase has filed a claim on a “representations and warranties” policy that it took out on the deal and that […]

By: Justus Haucap (D’Kart) For the European Antitrust community, the Austrian city of Innsbruck, high in the Alps and famous for winter sports, invites a different kind of memory: that of the annual symposium of the Forschungsinstitut für Wirtschaftsverfassung und Wettbewerb (a research institute, FIW for short). Following a two-year hiatus due to COVID, the […]

On Wednesday a federal grand jury in Las Vegas handed down an indictment accusing a healthcare executive of conspiring to suppress the wages for local nurses, in violation of US antitrust law. If convicted, the executive could face severe criminal penalties. Eduardo Lopez, of Las Vegas, was recently charged with being involved in a conspiracy […]

Federal Trade Commissioner Christine Wilson, the sole remaining Republican at the FTC’s governing board, said she plans to resign from the position, citing her reason for this decision as Democratic Chair Lina Khan’s “disregard for the rule of law and due process.” “Much ink has been spilled about Lina Khan’s attempts to remake federal antitrust […]

Google on Thursday lost its fight in India’s Supreme Court to block an antitrust order, in a major setback that will force the U.S. tech giant to change the business model of its popular Android operating system in a key growth market. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) ruled in October that Google, exploited its dominant […]

Russia’s Gazprom has won an appeal against a fine of over €6 billion imposed on it by Poland’s antitrust authority, UOKiK, for constructing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline without first seeking Polish approval. UOKiK now says that it plans to challenge the ruling, reported Moscow Times.  In October 2020, UOKiK imposed financial penalties of more […]

Apple stopped Spotify from circumventing its App Store fees for audiobooks, and now, Spotify is allegedly speaking with the British competition watchdog over the incident. Spotify wants to sell audiobooks within its app by sending customers to its website. Apple doesn’t allow this for individual goods, though a rule was passed to allow subscription services […]

British online furniture retailer Made.com said on Tuesday talks with a number of interested parties for a potential sale of the company have been terminated after they were unable to meet the timetable. The company added it is no longer in receipt of funding proposals or any possible offers for a potential sale, reported Reuters.  “The […]

By Karol B. Zdybel, University of Hamburg The concept of anticommons has been gaining researchers’ interest over the past 25 years. Although it is not fully novel and occasionally repeats otherwise known theses, it introduces a both simple and useful conceptual framework for thinking about legal institutions. Thanks to this, the theory of anticommons elegantly […]

By: Joe McKendrick and Andy Thurai (Harvard Business Review) Artificial intelligence is designed to assist with decision-making when the data, parameters, and variables involved are beyond human comprehension. For the most part, AI systems make the right decisions given the constraints. However, AI notoriously fails in capturing or responding to intangible human factors that go into real-life […]

By: Samantha Lai and Alex Engler (Tech Tank) In the tech policy space, people with disabilities face many problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) biases have created disparate outcomes in automated hiring, while surveillance technology such as automated test proctoring software fails to accommodate students with disabilities. Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality (AR/ VR), and automated vehicles […]