Daily Dicta: Get Ready for the Next Antitrust Mega-Fight (Hint: It Doesn't Involve DOJ)
It's not just nature that abhors a vacuum. So too does regulatory enforcement. And the fight to watch this fall will pit AGs from more than a dozen states against lawyers for T-Mobile and Sprint.
July 30, 2019 at 01:01 PM
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Here's a funny thing about the Justice Department's Antitrust Division these days.
When a merger involves an entity the president openly despises—cough, CNN—antitrust enforcers are all about super-aggressive enforcement, bringing (and losing) the first challenge to a vertical merger since the Carter administration.
Or take Google and Facebook—which President Trump has blasted for their alleged anti-conservative bias—as well as Amazon, which is owned by Trump nemesis Jeff Bezos. Last week, Antitrust Division head Makan Delrahim announced a wide-ranging review of “market-leading online platforms” that's virtually certain to put the trio on the hot seat as calls mount for their breakups.
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