Publications
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, urging the court to grant a rehearing In re Merck Mumps Vaccine Antitrust Litigation. A class of physicians alleged that Merck misled the Food and Drug Administration about the shelf-life of its vaccine and thereby kept out a competing vaccine.
Read MorePolicy counsel Tara Pincock calls for stricter enforcement to ensure that executives face consequences, deterring price-fixing in the future.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes on the potential rescue to come to small businesses if Kamala Harris wins the upcoming election, shifting the cooperation of the FTC towards independent corporations.
Read MoreIn Project Syndicate’s Big Question, Tara Pincock weighs in on the current state of antitrust law, enforcement, and the courts.
Read MoreOpen Markets submitted a comment to the FTC calling for termination of a 2012 Coopharma consent order and urging the agency to endorse an exemption for employees, contractors and small firms that challenge concentrations of power.
Read MoreIn Competition Policy International: Antitrust Chronicle, September 2024, Open Markets senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley publishes a paper, "Illuminating the Anti-Coercion Foundations of Refusals to Deal.”
Read MoreOpen Markets files amicus brief in algorithmic price-fixing case involving Las Vegas hotels, Gibson v. Cendyn Group.
Read MoreBarry Lynn authors Harper's October 2024 cover story, "The Antitrust Revolution: Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech."
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci have co-written an article on the impact that unaffordable housing is having on regional and national economics, specifically high living cost areas, and what to do to fix the problem.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan joins the Broken Law Podcast to discuss major updates in antitrust, including the FTC’s rule banning non-competes and the Amazon, Kroger-Albertsons, and Apple cases.
Read MoreDirector of Europe and Transatlantic Partnerships Max von Thun demands a new economic vision for the European Union by pursuing competition to create a robust political economy that can take back power from corporate behemoths.
Read MoreOpen Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement on the Department of Justice and state attorneys general suing to break up the entertainment and ticketing monopoly, Live Nation-Ticketmaster (formally “Live Nation Entertainment”).
Read MoreWisconsin senator Tammy Baldwin quoted Open Markets Institute’s legal director Sandeep Vaheesan in a press release her STOP Bad Mergers Act, which she recently introduced to crack down on mergers that result in higher prices and fewer American jobs.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan goes into detail on the recent brief filed by Open Markets, and the attempt by Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. to legalize their unlawful business model in Massachusetts--to the detriment of drivers, high-road rivals, and the state's labor market standards.
Read MoreOpen Markets’ legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci as spoke at an event hosted by the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative on Friday May 10th, 2024.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in El Koussa v. Campbell, a case before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts challenging proposed ballot initiatives in Massachusetts concerning whether app-based companies like Uber and Lyft should be allowed to legally classify their drivers as independent contractors.
Read MoreOpen Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule to ban non-compete clauses for all workers.
Read MoreOpen Markets senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley called for the enforcement of the all-but-lapsed Robertson-Patman Act (RPA), enacted in the 1930s by discussing RPA’s ability to level the playing field for small retailers competing against the likes of Walmart and Amazon.
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