Publications
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in El Koussa v. Campbell, a case before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts challenging proposed ballot initiatives in Massachusetts concerning whether app-based companies like Uber and Lyft should be allowed to legally classify their drivers as independent contractors.
Read MoreOpen Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule to ban non-compete clauses for all workers.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in Ohio v. Google, a case in which the State of Ohio seeks to designate Google as a common carrier under state law in order to stop Google from preferencing it’s own products and services.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan echos the Biden Administration’s valuable promises to break with the neoliberal antitrust and competition policy program that has one-sidedly created benefits only for large corporations.
Read MoreAnnouncing Sandeep Vaheesan’s book coming soon.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan and senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley layout the major legal and policy procedures lined up in 2024 for the banning of noncompete clauses.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan and policy counsel Tara Pincock encourage the public to support the fight of the red states in bringing an important antitrust cause to the Supreme Court.
Read MoreOpen Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement regarding the news that two of the U.S.’s largest credit card companies, Capitol One and Discover, seek to merge.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in two cases currently before the Supreme Court concerning states’ ability to regulate certain companies in the public interest, or as “common carriers”: Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v Paxton.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan discusses about a new book that shows how Uber was a symbol of a neoliberal philosophy that neglected public funding and regulation in favor of rule by private corporations.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan and policy counsel Tara Pincock co-published a powerful piece emphasizing that even the biggest publishers are no match for Amazon’s death grip on the book market.
Read MoreOpen Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan put out a statement on the final 2023 merger guidelines from the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute welcomed the announcement that gene sequencing company Illumina will sell cancer test developer Grail following inquiries from antitrust regulators.
Read MoreOpen Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan is quoted in Common Dreams regarding how the new merger guidelines just released by the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission “put fealty to law front and center again.”
Read MoreReuters cited the Open Markets-led amicus brief in support of DC’s case against Amazon’s illegal pricing practices in DC v Amazon, as the DC Attorney General works to revive the case.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan publishes a piece on how Maine’s voters recently rejected a referendum for publicly owned energy after a disinformation campaign led by the energy lobby.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the case
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan analyzes the lens of sociologist Jakob Feinig on challenging the dominant view of money as a scarce commodity and how this aligns with the role of President FDR and the New Deal.
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