blockbuster AT&T ruling

An exclamation point in the first paragraph can only mean one thing: It's an opinion by Judge Leon. https://t.co/CeTyxHfcP5 pic.twitter.com/dxyTSo0i4J

— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) June 13, 2018

criticized the deal regularly tweeted a few years ago

• "There is a very real prospect that the program will go on for as long as America is combating terrorism, which realistically could be forever!" (Klayman v. Obama, December 2013)

• "The FDA appears to be simply wrapping itself in the flag of law enforcement discretion to justify its authority and masquerade an otherwise seemingly callous indifference to the health consequences of those imminently facing the executioner's needle. How utterly disappointing!" (Beaty v. FDA, March 2012)

• "The board's final rule not only fails to carry out Congress's intention; it effectively countermands it!" (NACS v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, July 2013)

• “Surely, to recast a line from the great Justice Robert H. Jackson, the First Amendment is not a secrecy pact!” (Bean LLC dba Fusion GPS v. John Doe Bank, January 2018)

• “Accordingly, in the agency's view, TPSAC members who performed consulting work for such drug companies had no financial conflict of interest. Please! (Lorillard, Inc. v. FDA, July 2014)

• "History belies the notion that this action is the first and only time that the government has found an antitrust problem with a proposed vertical merger or insisted on a structural remedy as a condition to settlement. So while it may, indeed, be a rare breed of horse, it is not exactly a unicorn!" (U.S. v. AT&T, February 2018)

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