Posts in Amicus Briefs & Petitions
Amicus Brief - Open Markets Institute Files Amicus Brief Supporting Federal Trade Commission and Urging Supreme Court to Protect Consumers, Workers, and Independent Businesses

Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in a case before the Supreme Court, AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC urging the court to protect the FTC’s ability to recover money from violators of competition and consumer protection law.

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Amicus Brief - Open Markets Institute Files Amicus Brief Supporting Antitrust Lawsuit on Humira, World’s Top-Selling Drug

Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of UFCW Local 1500 Welfare Fund v. AbbVie, Inc. In building a thicket of 247 patents and pending patents on Humira, AbbVie’s conduct amounts to abuse of the patent system and illegal monopolization.

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Amicus Brief - Open Markets Joins Large Group of Justice Organizations to File Amicus Brief in Support of California’s Pro-Worker Case Against Uber and Lyft

Open Markets Institute joins Public Rights Project and 14 other civil rights, gender justice, and worker rights organizations in filing an amicus brief in support of the case brought by California Attorney General, City of San Francisco, City of Los Angeles, and City of San Diego against Uber and Lyft for misclassifying drivers.

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Amicus Brief - Open Markets Files Amicus Brief Laying Out Harms from Tying and Urging Court to Affirm Good Law on Practice

On August 3, 2020, the Open Markets Institute submitted an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit describing the harms of tying arrangements and the legal restrictions on the practice. Jay Forester, at Forester Haynie in Dallas, generously served as the Open Markets Institute’s local counsel and filed the brief.

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Amicus Brief - Open Markets, Change To Win, NELP, and Economics and Law Professors, in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants in Shawne Alston, et al. v. NCAA, et al.

On October 30, 2009, Open Markets Institute, Change To Win, the National Employment Law Project, and Professors Marshall Steinbaum, Sanjukta Paul, and Veena Dubal filed an amici curiae brief supporting current and former college basketball and football players in their antitrust suit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

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