Competition Law

Bona Law Sues Tennessee Lawyers on State Board for Lawyer Suspension Violating Antitrust Laws and US Constitution

On April 29, 2019, Bona Law attorneys Jarod Bona and Aaron Gott and Nashville constitutional lawyer Daniel Horwitz filed a federal complaint in Nashville, Tennessee for constitutional and antitrust violations arising from a temporary suspension imposed by the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility. The suit alleges that the lawyers appointed to the board “temporarily” suspended prominent Nashville medical malpractice lawyer Brian Manookian for his out-of-court […]

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Legal Analytics for Antitrust Litigation: Sizing Up the Antitrust Landscape

Data analytics is big business right now. Many types of businesses are using analytics to become more competitive and efficient. It’s no longer just “Moneyball” in sports, but styling analytics in retail, adaptive learning analytics in education and – you guessed it – litigation analytics in the legal sector. While there are a variety of […]

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Who is Capable of Conspiring to Violate the Antitrust Laws?

When you think about Sherman Act Section 1 antitrust cases (the ones involving conspiracies), you usually consider the question—often framed at the motion to dismiss stage as a Twombly inquiry—whether the defendants actually engaged in an antitrust conspiracy. But, sometimes, the question is whether the defendants are actually capable of conspiring together. That isn’t a commentary on the intelligence […]

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Antitrust News: The International Competition Network Standardizes Due Process Principles for Antitrust and Competition Enforcement Agencies Worldwide

The U.S. Department of Justice recently published that the International Competition Network (“ICN”) has approved the Framework on Competition Agency Procedures (“CAP”), for antitrust enforcement agencies around the world to promote fundamental due process principles in competition law investigations and enforcement. This is an opt-in framework, based on the U.S. Antitrust Division’s initial Multilateral Framework on Procedures proposed at […]

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Antitrust News: The Oscars’ Proposed Ban on Netflix Movies Raises Antitrust Concerns

Author: Aaron Gott My morning routine usually begins with reading the news to keep up on current events. As an antitrust lawyer, I often find myself thinking about how stories that were deemed newsworthy for other reasons fail to recognize their often most troubling aspects: the antitrust concerns. Last week, for example, the news was abuzz with […]

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Bona Law would like to Add a New Antitrust Attorney in either California or New York

Our boutique antitrust law firm has a lot of work right now and we expect this to continue and even increase. You may have seen the announcement about our new antitrust (monopolization) and Lanham Act lawsuit in Colorado federal court. And that is just one of many cases, matters, and projects we have on our plate right now. Fortunately, we have a […]

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The Antitrust Attorney Blog: Bona Law Files Antitrust and Lanham Act Lawsuit Against Johns Manville for its Monopolization and Disparagement in the Calsil Insulation Market

“We went into the IR Global San Diego conference on the weekend knowing that the next week we needed to find local counsel for a significant antitrust case we were filing the next week in Denver, Colorado. Fortunately for us, during introductions, Geoffrey Blue described Klenda Gessler & Blue and their vast experience in that […]

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Antitrust News: The Department of Justice Supports a Market-Participant Exception to State-Action Immunity in No-Poaching Agreement Case Against Duke University

It is illegal under the antitrust laws for competitors to agree not to steal each others’ employees. For more about that, you can read our article about how the antitrust laws encourage stealing. Yes, you read that correctly. But this article isn’t about stealing or even agreeing not to steal employees. Instead, it is about one […]

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The Antitrust Attorney Blog – Appealing a Class Action Certification under Rule 23(f)

If you are a defendant in a federal class action case, you probably already know that class certification is an important pivot point in the litigation: once the class is certified, it could be a bet-the-company moment where the risk of a large judgment outweighs any considerations about the merits or your likelihood of successfully defending at trial. […]

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New Webinars on Opiods, M&A Trends and Class Actions

Join Manatt for New Insights Into Three of Today’s Most Critical Healthcare Challenges: the Opioid Epidemic, the Drivers Transforming M&A and Recent Class Action Changes. Register Free Below for the Programs of Your Choice. “Ending the Opioid Epidemic: Leading-Edge Responses and Next Steps.” March 27, 2019. 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET. Click here to learn […]

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Antitrust Injury and the Classic Antitrust Case of Brunswick Corp v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat

Antitrust injury is one of the most commonly fought battles in antitrust litigation. It is also one of the least understood antitrust concepts. No matter what your antitrust theory, it is almost certain that you must satisfy antitrust-injury requirements to win your case. So you ought to have some idea of what it is. The often-quoted […]

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