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Should Revised Merger Guidelines Address Potential & Nascent Competition?

January 13, 2023

The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are considering changes to the Horizontal and Vertical Merger Guidelines and have asked whether the current...


DOJ’s Google Antitrust Lawsuit Misconstrues the Relevant Markets

October 20, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. —­­ Today, the Department of Justice and eleven Republican state attorneys general filed their long-expected lawsuit against Google. The suit alleges that “Google...


House Antitrust Report: 449 Pages & All of Them Miss the Mark

October 6, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. —­­ Today, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust released its long-awaited report proposing to rewrite the nation’s antitrust laws to address the...


New Vertical Merger Guidelines May Hurt Startups & Facilitate Political Weaponization of Antitrust

February 27, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. —­­ Yesterday, TechFreedom filed comments on the draft Vertical Merger Guidelines proposed by the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade...


Court Rejects Trump DOJ Suit to Block AT&T/Time Warner Merger

June 12, 2018

Last November, the Department of Justice stunned the antitrust world by suing to block AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner. No such “vertical” deal (between two...


Simons, Chopra, Phillips Nominated to Federal Trade Commission

October 19, 2017

WASHINGTON D.C. — Yesterday, the President nominated Republican Joe Simons to chair the Federal Trade Commission as well as Democrat Rohit Chopra and Republican Noah...