The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in Cornish-Adebiyi v. Caesars, a case before the Third Circuit court in which casino hotels in Atlantic City used revenue management software from Cendyn Group to fix prices at high rates.
Read More
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in Ryan v. FTC, marking the second appellate case in which Open Markets has defended the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) landmark prohibition on non-compete clauses.
Read More
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 More
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in Villages v. FTC, one of two cases that challenge the FTC’s landmark prohibition on non-compete clauses.
Read More
Open Markets files amicus brief in algorithmic price-fixing case involving Las Vegas hotels, Gibson v. Cendyn Group.
Read More
The Open Markets Institute and its partners filed an amicus brief in the case of FuboTV versus a joint streaming venture between major TV broadcasters including Disney, Warner Brothers, Fox and Discovery, urging the courts to block the new venture that would dominate 80% of live sports content and is slated to begin this fall.
Read More
The 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 More
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in Ohio v. Google, a case in which the State of Ohio seeks to designate Google as a common carrier under state law in order to stop Google from preferencing it’s own products and services.
Read More
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in two cases currently before the Supreme Court concerning states’ ability to regulate certain companies in the public interest, or as “common carriers”: Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v Paxton.
Read More
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the case
Read More
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the case of Illumina v. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging the Fifth Circuit to deny a petition for review in the case.
Read More
The Open Markets Institute legal director Sandeep Vaheesan led a release of the following Amicus Brief regarding the illegal and deceptive work practices of Amazon, backing The District of Columbia’s appeal of their dismissed lawsuit.
Read More
On December 9th, the Open Markets Institute joined an amicus brief drafted by the Washington Employment Lawyers Association and Towards Justice concerning the enforceability of arbitration clauses under WA state law.
Read More
On Thursday, November 10, the Open Markets Institute, Towards Justice, and the National Legal Advocacy Network filed a brief in support of McDonald’s workers in Deslandes v. McDonalds.
Read More
On Thursday, September 8, the Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief on Google’s conduct against Genius is no aberration, but rather, part of its business model and among its broader panoply of unfair competitive practices.
Read More
On Friday, June 17, the Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in Regeneron v. Novartis. This case concerns alleged monopolization and restraint of trade by Novartis in the market for a medication used to treat macular degeneration and other serious eye conditions.
Read More
Read our full amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to correct the errors of the lower courts and restore the plain meaning of the Clayton Act.
Read More
Read our full amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit to reverse the district court’s faulty decision in Sanofi’s lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Mylan.
Read More
Read our full amicus brief in support of Dreamstime in its lawsuit against Google for abusing its monopoly in online search.
Read More
Read our full amici curiae brief in support of current and former college basketball and football players in their antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA.
Read More
Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in a case before the Supreme Court, AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC urging the court to protect the FTC’s ability to recover money from violators of competition and consumer protection law.
Read More
Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit describing the harms of tying arrangements and the legal restrictions on the practice.
Read More
Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of BRUCE E. ELLISON, M.D., v. AMERICAN BOARD OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, INC., I
Read More
Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of UFCW Local 1500 Welfare Fund v. AbbVie, Inc. In building a thicket of 247 patents and pending patents on Humira, AbbVie’s conduct amounts to abuse of the patent system and illegal monopolization.
Read More
Open Markets Institute joins Public Rights Project and 14 other civil rights, gender justice, and worker rights organizations in filing an amicus brief in support of the case brought by California Attorney General, City of San Francisco, City of Los Angeles, and City of San Diego against Uber and Lyft for misclassifying drivers.
Read More
On August 3, 2020, the Open Markets Institute submitted an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit describing the harms of tying arrangements and the legal restrictions on the practice. Jay Forester, at Forester Haynie in Dallas, generously served as the Open Markets Institute’s local counsel and filed the brief.
Read More
On February 2, 2020, the Open Markets Institute filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court in the State of Montana urging the Montana Supreme Court to hold all non-competes to be unenforceable.
Read More
Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in support of theFederal Trade Commission in its case against Impax Laboratories. In our brief, we argue that pay-for-delay agreements are a form of per se illegal, horizontal market allocation agreements that seek to prohibit market entry and thus harm market competition.
Read More
On December 16, 2019, Open Markets Institute filed an amicus curiae brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in its suit against generic drug maker Impax Laboratories.
Read More
On November 27, 2019, the Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the Federal Trade Commission's anti-monopoly suit against Qualcomm, the biggest government anti-monopoly case since Microsoft.
Read More