Thanks to a 1977 US Supreme Court case called Illinois Brick v. Illinois, class-action-antitrust plaintiff claims may look strange. You might expect to see named plaintiffs for a class of allegedly injured parties suing defendants (and it is usually multiple defendants) under the federal antitrust laws for damages. And you do see that—those are usually called the “direct purchasers.” But […]
Bona Law PC attorneys Jarod Bona, Aaron Gott, Alexandra Shear, Luis Blanquez, and Luke Hasskamp filed an amicus brief on behalf of the International Center for Law & Economics (“ICLE”) and a dozen legal and economics scholars in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The brief argued that the Northern District of California’s ruling in FTC v. Qualcomm Inc. misapplied […]
You might wonder why industry trade associations can lobby the government without obvious antitrust sanction, even when—which is common—they seek regulations or actions that ultimately harm competition. The answer is found in the Noerr-Pennington doctrine, which we will discuss today. What is the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine? The Noerr-Pennington immunity is a limited exemption from antitrust liability for certain […]
You may not realize this, but a lot of people don’t like lawyers. We even have our own genre of comedy that predates Shakespeare: lawyer jokes. Here is a common example: What do you call 1000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start! When you heard that joke for the first time, you […]
Bona Law attorneys Aaron Gott, Alex Shear, and Jarod Bona filed an antitrust complaint in New York federal court on behalf of PharmacyChecker.com, alleging a conspiracy among trade groups funded or controlled by pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacy corporations, and Silicon Valley companies for their agreements with Internet gatekeepers to wipe information about safe online international pharmacies from the consumer-facing internet. According […]
I am from Minnesota, so I am quite familiar with blizzards. They may be interesting to watch through a window from a room warmed by a fireplace, but you don’t want to get caught in one. The same is true for an antitrust blizzard: They are interesting to watch, but they can destroy you. Like […]
I am from Minnesota, so I am quite familiar with blizzards. They may be interesting to watch through a window from a room warmed by a fireplace, but you don’t want to get caught in one. The same is true for an antitrust blizzard: They are interesting to watch, but they can destroy you. Like […]
You might hear from an antitrust attorney that it is important to have a strong antitrust compliance policy. And you may think to yourself, yes, I suppose it is. Then you go about your over-packed day, periodically seeing from other professionals that whatever their speciality is, you need to call them right away to have them help you […]
As an antitrust attorney, over time you see the same major cases cited again and again. It is only natural that you develop favourites. Here at The Antitrust Attorney Blog, we will, from time-to-time, highlight some of the “Classic Antitrust Cases” that we love, that we hate, or that we merely find interesting. The Supreme Court decided National […]
The Antitrust Attorney Blog — Published by California Antitrust Lawyer — Jarod Bona of Bona Law PC. An amicus curiae brief is filed by a non-party—usually in an appellate court like the US Supreme Court—that seeks to educate the court by offering facts, analysis, or a perspective that the party briefing doesn’t present. The term […]
Great lawyers must write well. But what does that mean? I could give you a list of what you should or shouldn’t do as a legal writer. I think that you might find such an article useful regardless of your skill level because the best writers always strive to improveand the worst writers, well, they need […]
Even if you aren’t an antitrust lawyer, you have certainly seen notices of class actions, perhaps with a solicitation from an attorney stating in legalese that you may be entitled to money or something to that effect. You probably ignored them—and for good reason—perhaps the amount you could receive was small, or the subject didn’t really have […]