Here you go–Commercial Roundup for the couple of weeks ending September 14, 2023
Commercial Roundup – September 15, 2023
Commercial Roundup – August 23, 2023
This late-summer edition of Commercial Roundup features a notable ruling on personal jurisdiction, a pair of False Claims Act decisions, a couple of opinions tossing class certification orders, a 2-1 split in a securities fraud case (the dissent has the better end of it), a rare victory for plaintiffs in an action for unlawful maintenance
Commercial Roundup – July 26, 2023
Welcome to the Commercial Roundup for July 26, 2023. With the U.S Supreme Court and the highest courts of New York and Texas on hiatus, the Supreme Court of Delaware and nine of the 13 U.S. Courts of Appeals supplied the commercial decisions that Roundup has cut into little pieces for you to sample.
- Antitrust
Commercial Roundup – July 13, 2023
Welcome to The Commercial Roundup for July 13, 2023. While the pace of new opinions has slowed, it has not stopped. And this issue includes the end of the Supreme Court’s 2022-23 Term.
Commercial Roundup – June 28, 2023
Welcome to The Contingency‘s Commercial Roundup for June 28!
Since our last issue, much has happened, not least FeedSpot’s recognition of The Contingency as one of the 30 Best Antitrust Law Blogs and Websites.
Paying More in the “But-For World” as Injury to “Property”
Last month, the American Antitrust Institute and three economists moved to file amicus briefs in favor of an economic model that quantifies what Google describes as “happiness”. AAI and the economists seek to support opinion evidence in antitrust litigation against Google, In re Google Play Store Antitrust Litig., No. 3:21-md-02981-JD (N.D. Cal.), pending before
Commercial Roundup – June 14, 2023
Antitrust Lessons for Patent Cases
A golden age of civil antitrust, from the 1960s into the 1980s, enriched the victims of cartels and monopolies but upset corporate America. The high cost of paying treble damages claims eventually provoked a spare-no-expense approach to defense. That in turn influenced the way plaintiffs prosecuted their Sherman Act claims.
Much the same thing has
Commercial Roundup – May 17, 2023
Commercial Roundup – April 27, 2023
Commercial Roundup offers a double feature this week–two weeks in one.
We lead off with a memory (“The biggest surprise?”), proceed through a slew of IP rulings, pause on my colleagues’ big win against Fox News (“All it took”), note the Supreme Court has cleared the way for constitutional attacks on the SEC and FTC (“How about now?”) and the Fifth Circuit almost immediately expedited one such attack (“Fifth Circuit looks anxious”), and highlight rulings on choice of law clauses and class certification before ending on a high note (“Need a lift”).
Have a terrific rest of the week.