Publications
Last Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the district court’s ruling that allowed AT&T to acquire Time Warner. The three-judge panel found no clear errors with the trial court’s opinion allowing a vertical merger between two corporations at different stages of the video programming supply chain.
Read MoreOpen Markets applauds Senators Warren and Sanders for taking bold stances against monopolies this week as bipartisan momentum towards stronger antitrust enforcement in Congress continues to build.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we show where the Justice Department went wrong in its challenge to AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner. We also highlight several works recently put out by Open Markets opposing monopoly power.
Read MoreMother Jones' Nihal Krishan reports on the U.S. government's failure to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger and how it could lead to even bigger monopolies. Open Markets fellow Matt Stoller tells him that the wording of the court opinion rejecting the DOJ’s case against AT&T and Time Warner left open wiggle room for future cases.
Read MoreToday, Open Markets has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) calling for the DOJ to block printer Quad/Graphics’ (Quad) plan to buy its biggest competitor, LSC Communications (LSC), for $1.4 billion. The letter, signed by Open Markets, the Authors Guild, PEN America, is addressed to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim.
Read MoreOpen Markets reporter Matthew Buck and Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan publish an op-ed on The New York Times highlighting that while President Trump's tweets criticize Facebook and Google, the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department is making life easier for potential monopolists in Silicon Valley.
Read MoreThe letter, signed by Open Markets, the Authors Guild, PEN America, and addressed to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, explains how the combination of Quad and LSC is a merger-to-monopoly in the long-run magazine printing market and an anticompetitive merger in the book printing market.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute writes to Chair Schakowksy and ranking member McMorris Rodgers of the House Energy and Commerce committee in order to offer its thoughts on the discussion that has begun on new comprehensive privacy legislation.
Read MoreThe 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.
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