The Open Markets Institute has filed an amicus brief in the First Circuit Court in the case Breiding v. Eversource Energy. In the brief, Open Markets supports a class-action lawsuit by New England residents against two vertically-integrated energy utility corporations, Eversource Energy and Avangrid.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute is pleased to announce that Sally Hubbard, a highly regarded antitrust expert and former enforcer, is joining Open Markets as Director of Enforcement Strategy.
Read More“We are disappointed by the D.C. Circuit's decision to affirm the District Court's ruling permitting AT&T to acquire Time Warner,” said Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan. Open Markets' amicus brief was cited three times in the D.C. Circuit’s decision to allow AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner.
Read MoreOpen Markets filed an amicus brief to the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in support of New England residents in Breiding v. Eversource Energy.
Read MoreThe world is eating more farmed fish, and global grain traders intend to control the fish feeding business much as they control the feeding of other farm animals. In her latest piece, Open Markets' reporter Claire Kelloway looks examines the fastest growing form of food production in the world — aquaculture.
Read MoreOpen Markets has submitted a public comment on February 27, 2019 to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the FTC’s 3-2 clearance of the Staples-Essendant Merger.
Read MoreOpen Markets fellow Austin Frerick argues on The American Conservative that America’s agricultural system has become extractive, and more and more of the profits are flowing to a few. It is little wonder that monopolies and corporate farms have grown more powerful at the expense of workers and family farmers.
Read MoreOpen Markets senior fellow Lina Khan and Columbia law professor David Pozen have published a new paper criticizing the idea that digital platforms should be treated as “information fiduciaries.”
Read MoreOpen Markets fellow Matt Stoller offers his view of the Federal Trade Commission's new task force to monitor the tech giants to WIRED magazine. "They don’t want to do their No. 1 job," asserts Stoller. "Which is to police markets for unfair and anticompetitive behavior.”
Read MoreIn the Harvard Law Review, Lina Khan and David Pozen explore ways to disrupt the emerging consensus by identifying a number of lurking tensions and ambiguities in the theory of information fiduciaries, as well as a number of reasons to doubt the theory’s capacity to resolve them satisfactorily.
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