In this issue, we take a look at how the fight to rein in Big Tech giants is moving to the states as the future for antitrust enforcement remains uncertain under the incoming Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress.
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Executive director Barry Lynn contemplates if Trump would allow Lina Khan to remain as FTC chair, given his corporate-aligned motives rather than genuine populism.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan speaks on this podcast episode to discusses the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) ban on noncompete clauses, which prevent workers from taking jobs with competitors and a recent court ruling that temporarily blocked the ban.
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Food program manager Claire Kelloway argues that the Kroger-Albertsons merger would likely lead to store closures, job losses, and reduced wages for workers, emphasizing the need for the Federal Trade Commission to consider these labor impacts in its antitrust review
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CJL director Courtney Radsch wrote an article emphasizing Google's need to pay news organizations for the media content it uses to fuel its lucrative and monopolistic search and ad businesses.
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The Open Markets Institute released a statement on the decision Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas to strike down a landmark new rule enacted by the Federal Trade Commission that would have banned non-compete clauses in employment contracts.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley emphasizes in Common Dreams the need for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block Mars Inc.'s acquisition of Kellanova arguing that this merger would significantly reduce competition in the snack and cereal bar market.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley provides comprehensive insight on the unfair practices of employers using non-compete agreements and TRAPs, and the advancements in the removal of these practices by the FTC.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director, and Brian Callaci, chief economist co-authored a piece about judicial changes to antitrust law that has taken a more permissive approach to coercion and exploitation affecting worker wages.
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Open Markets Institute’s report, AI in the Public Interest: Confronting their Monopoly Threat, which was published last year, in an article on federal investigations into Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI for their monopolization of the AI space was cited in Valuetainment.
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Legal 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.
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Open 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”).
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Open 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.
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OMI executive director Barry Lynn is quoted on Lina Khan’s origin story, noting that she joined Open Markets fresh out of college.
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Open Markets Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway released a statement regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s move to block a merger between two of the nation’s largest grocers, Kroger and Albertsons.
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Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn released the following statement regarding the news that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will investigate partnerships between dominant tech giants and artificial intelligence companies, including Microsoft and OpenAI, Amazon and Anthropic, and Google and Anthropic.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan is quoted in Common Dreams regarding how the new merger guidelines just released by the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission “put fealty to law front and center again.”
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Barry Lynn is quoted in the Houston Chronicle from a statement urging US regulators to block both buyouts.
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