MoginRubin Named 2018 Best Lawyer in Antitrust Litigation


MoginRubin Named 2018 Best Lawyer in Antitrust Litigation

On being named a 2018 Best Lawyer in America, Dan Mogin of MoginRubin contemplates his future. To access the original press release, please click here.

The Threshold – Volume XVII, Number 3, Summer 2017

We are pleased to share our very own, Ms. Jodie Williams’ contribution in the The Threshold – Summer 2017 – Volume XVII Number 3. Ms. Williams…

San Diego Business Journal Best of the Bar 2017: Joy Sidhwa

We are pleased to announce the recognition of one of our dedicated team members by the San Diego Business Journal Best of the Bar 2017.…

Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum

Best practices for plaintiffs’-side complex litigation attorneys

New Bicoastal Boutique Packs Antitrust Plaintiffs Punch

A U.S. Supreme Court victory against Visa and Mastercard over ATM fees has helped unite two soloantitrust litigators to form a bicoastal firm.

Judging Neil Gorsuch and Antitrust Law – National Review

By: Dan Mogin & Jonathan Rubin Daniel Mogin and Jonathan Rubin in the National Review, responding to Zephyr Teachout’s misguided claims regarding Supreme Court nominee Neil…

Fix or Flop? FTC Reviews Its Merger Remedies

Last month, the FTC released its long-awaited review of merger remedies imposed between 2006 – 2012.

A Monopoly Donald Trump Can Pop

By: Dan Mogin Last week, The New York Times featured an op-ed regarding an antitrust issue of concern to our Firm and colleagues.

The Mogin Law Firm, P.C. Recognized by East Bay Community Law Center

The Mogin Law Firm P.C.’s charitable efforts were recognized by the East Bay Community Law Center (“EBCLC”) this month.

LIBOR (Gelboim) and the Implications of its Unwritten Rule

By: Dan Mogin & Jodie Williams Dan Mogin and Jodie Williams published in The American Lawyer, presented by the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Section of the Federal…

Seventh Circuit Affirms Class Certification in Containerboard Case

The Mogin Law Firm, P.C. and Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC, co-lead counsel, are pleased to announce that on August 4, 2016, the United…

ValueAct Update: Department of Justice Negotiates Record Settlement For HSR Violations

In April of this year, The Mogin Law Firm, P.C. published an article discussing an enforcement action by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) against ValueAct…

Jodie Williams selected to serve in Leadership for American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law

We would like to congratulate Jodie Williams for being selected to serve as part of the Leadership of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust…

Second Circuit Reverses LIBOR MDL District Court Ruling

Recently, The Mogin Law Firm, P.C. discussed the differing opinions among judges in the Southern District of New York regarding antitrust injury. 

Anheuser-Busch InBev Incentive Practice Raises Antitrust Concerns

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Anheuser-Busch InBev’s incentive program to independent distributors violates the federal antitrust laws, according to a report by…

Rutgers Law Journal: Patents, Antitrust, and Rivalry in Standard Setting

By: Jonathan Rubin Voluntary consensus standard-setting is important for commercializing products that employ new technologies because technical compatibility standards are needed before new products, particularly…

The Standards Edge: Patents, Competition and Interoperability

By: Jonathan Rubin For more than a century, US patent and antitrust laws have coexisted in a delicate balance. Each seeks to promote innovation and…

The Systems Approach to Antitrust Law

By: Jonathan Rubin The law inexorably lags developments in wider society. For decades, governmental policies toward business have followed the Chicago School of economics view…

Another Judge Rejects LIBOR I’s Holding On Antitrust Injury In Financial Benchmark Cases

A second judge in the Southern District of New York recently found that manipulation of financial benchmarks can constitute antitrust injury to state a claim…

Supreme Court Declines to Further Opine on Statistical Evidence Proving Damages

A few weeks ago, The Mogin Law Firm, P.C. posted an analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Tyson’s Foods v. Bouaphakeo the potential implications…

Are Investment Funds’ Cross-Shareholdings Anti-Competitive?

On April 4, 2016 the DOJ’s Antitrust Division sued activist investment firm ValueAct Capital and its affiliated funds based on their failure to report investments…

Supreme Court Upholds Sample Statistical Evidence in Tyson Foods

On March 22, 2016, the Supreme Court decided Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, affirming a verdict in favor of a certified class under the Fair…

The New Road to Serfdom: The Curse of Bigness and the Failure of Antitrust

This is a link to a new article previewing The New Road to Serfdom: The Curse of Bigness and the Failure of Antitrust (49 U.…

Krugman/Reich in NYRB on Market Power and Antitrust

This links to an interesting review of Robert Reich’s new book, Saving Capitalism; For the Many, Not the Few, by NY Times commentator and Nobel…

Court grants Class Certification in Containerboard Products Antitrust Litigation and confirms The Mogin Law Firm as Co-Lead Counsel

Court grants Class Certification in Containerboard Products Antitrust Litigation and confirms The Mogin Law Firm as Co-Lead Counsel.

The Extraordinary Deterrence of Private Antitrust Enforcement: A Reply to Werden, Hammond & Barnett

“Comparative Deterrence from Private Enforcement and Criminal Enforcement of the U.S. Antitrust Laws” documents an extraordinary but usually overlooked fact: private antitrust enforcement deters a significant amount…

Why Billionaire Sheldon Solow’s $450 Million Libor Case Is Likely To Be Followed By More

Forbes | By Erin Carlyle 28 March 2013 – Billionaire developer Sheldon Solow, who built the tony Nine West 57th tower in New York City

Ninth Circuit Expands Reach of California Antitrust Law

In a recent decision in a price-fixing case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that California’s antitrust statute, the Cartwright Act,…

Urethane Buyers Win $400M Jury Verdict In Price-Fixing MDL

February 20, 2103 By Helen Christophi Law360 Law360, Los Angeles (February 20, 2013, 10:09 PM ET) — A Kansas federal jury on Wednesday awarded $400…

Real Estate Mogul Sues Banks For $100M Over LIBOR-Rigging

February 13, 2013 By Evan Weinberger Law360 (Law360) – New York real estate mogul Sheldon Solow on Wednesday sued Citigroup Inc.

Solow Sues Citigroup, BofA Alleging Manipulation of LIBOR

By Andrew Harris Bloomberg.com (Bloomberg.com) – A Sheldon H. Solow-led New York realty company sued Citigroup Inc.

DOJ Merger Challenge Highlights Danger Of Bad Documents

(Law360) – The U.S. Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit challenging a June 2012 transaction combining two providers of product rating and review…

JPMorgan Can’t Enforce Class Action Waiver, 6th Circ. Told

By Melissa Lipman Law360 (Law360) – A Second Circuit ruling that class arbitration waivers are unenforceable if they make it too expensive

The Supreme Court has finally granted cert. on a “pay-for-delay” case

The Supreme Court has finally granted cert. on a “pay-for-delay” case involving payments from a branded pharmaceutical company to a generic pharmaceutical company to delay…

CPI Antitrust Chronicle: The Future Legacy of the AT&T/ T-Mobile Merger Case

By: Jonathan Rubin The government’s challenge to the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile’s U.S. wireless communications business by AT&T Mobility could leave a lasting imprint on…

The Future Legacy of the AT&T/ T-Mobile Merger Case

The Future Legacy of the AT&T/ T-Mobile Merger Case Jonathan L. Rubin1 I. INTRODUCTION The government’s challenge to the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile’s U.S. wireless…

Court Appoints Mogin Co-Lead Counsel in Containerboard Products Price-Fixing Class Action

Dan Mogin and The Mogin Law Firm, P.C. have been appointed co-lead counsel by Judge Milton I. Shadur in the Containerboard Products price-fixing class action…

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Containerboard Products Price-Fixing Case

Law360, New York (April 11, 2011) — An Illinois federal judge refused Friday to throw out a putative class action accusing International Paper Co. and…

The Premature Post-Chicagoan: Alfred E. Kahn

By: Jonathan Rubin The year was 1977 and Alfred Kahn, the Cornell economics professor and former head of the New York State Public Service Commission, had just…

Dan Mogin named one of San Diego’s top attorneys in 2011 by San Diego Metro Magazine

Dan Mogin has been named one of San Diego’s top attorneys in 2011 by San Diego Metro Magazine.

The Mogin Law Firm Has Moved

The Mogin Law Firm, P.C. has moved. Our new offices are located at 707 Broadway, Suite 1000, San Diego, CA 92101. Our phone, fax number…

Daniel J. Mogin highlighted in CHP 11-99 Foundation’s Spring – Summer 2010 Newsletter

Article from the CHP 11-99 Foundation’s Star Spring – Summer 2010 Newsletter

6 DRAM Makers Settle Price-Fixing Claims For $173M

Law360, New York (June 24, 2010) — Six makers of dynamic random access memory chips,including Micron Technology Inc. and NEC Electronics America Inc., have reached…

The International Handbook on Private Enforcement of Competition Law

By: Jonathan Rubin Defendants in civil antitrust lawsuits brought in the US federal courts have several opportunities short of a trial on the merits by…

‘Pay for Delay’ Cases Illustrate Struggle Between Competition vs. Regulation Policies (Part II of II)

By: Dan Mogin Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series. The day after the Supreme Court denied review of the Cipro decision,…

The Mogin Law Firm Distributes $3.45 Million in Cy Pres Awards from Smokeless Tobacco Settlement Funds to San Diego Legal Societies, Organizations and Charities

SAN DIEGO- (BUSINESS WIRE) -The Mogin Law Firm has distributed $3.45 million to 10 San Diego legal societies, organizations and charities as part of $40…

U.S. House Judiciary Committee passes HR 3190, the Discount Pricing Consumer Protection Act

On January 13, 2010 the U.S. House Judiciary Committee passed HR 3190, the Discount Pricing Consumer Protection Act.

Statement of jonathan l. Rubin Before the house subcommittee on Courts and competition policy

Hearing on: H.R. 4115, the “Open Access to Courts Act of 2009” Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, Members of the Committee: Thank you for the opportunity…

Statement of Jonathan L. Rubin Before the House Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy

STATEMENT OF JONATHAN L. RUBIN BEFORE THE HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS AND COMPETITION POLICY Hearing on: H.R. 4115, the “Open Access to Courts Act of…

Dan Mogin Nominated as San Diego “Top Influential”

Readers and editors of the San Diego Daily Transcript have nominated Dan Mogin as a “Top Influential” – a person whose actions and opinions strongly…

Vista clinic names exam room for Mogin, Lawson

Daniel J. Mogin, managing partner of The Mogin Law Firm PC, and public health care nurse Julie Lawson have been recognized for their support of…

‘Pay for Delay’ Cases Illustrate Struggle Between Competition vs. Regulation Policies (Part I of II)

  article originally appeared in the San Diego Daily Transcript on September 8, 2009

Dan Mogin Selected As Lawyer Representative

Dan Mogin has been chosen by the United States District Court for the Southern District of California to serve as a Lawyer Representative for a…

Pay for Delay

The Hatch-Waxman Act was enacted in 1984 to promote generics while preserving a financial incentive for research and development through patent extension.

Plaintiffs Add Damages Claims To Bayer Aspirin Suit

Law360, New York (May 08, 2009) — Several plaintiffs have added claims for damages in a proposed class action against Bayer Healthcare LLC over the…

Administration Plans Tougher Antitrust Action – NYTimes.com

The new enforcement policy would reverse the Bush administration’s approach, which strongly favored defendants against antitrust claims. It would restore a policy that led to…

Economic recovery: Lessons from antitrust history

By: Dan Mogin It is an understatement to say the economic and banking crisis, and even the future of capitalism and free markets, have been…

Lessons from the S&L crisis litigation for today

By: Dan Mogin Déjà Vu All Over Again The lessons of the savings and loan crisis and the junk bond markets resonate in the current…

Live Nation, Ticketmaster Tie Up Faces Federal Scrutiny

WASHINGTON – The CEOs of music industry giants Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and Live Nation Inc. had a long week on Capitol Hill defending the planned…

Executive Profile Dan Mogin

San Diego Business Journal Executive Profile

Mogin Law Firm helps distribute smokeless tobacco settlement funds

By DOUG SHERWIN, The Daily Transcript The Mogin Law Firm is overseeing an effort to distribute more than $40 million in cy pres awards from…

Deja Vu All Over Again: Earlier Crises Can Guide Plaintiffs’ Lawyers

The lessons of the savings and loan crisis and the junk bond markets resonate in the current financial crisis and the tsunami of litigation that…

Small Business Competition Policy: Are Markets Open for Entrepreneurs?

Testimony: United States House of Representatives, Committee on Small Business Jonathan L. Rubin Partner, Patton Boggs LLP Washington, D.C. I. Introduction Madam Chairwoman, Ranking Member…

The Consumer Impact Of Illinois Brick, A Short Analysis

By: Dan Mogin This article is a very short and informal analysis of the effect of the Supreme Court’s decision in Illinois Brick Co. v…

“The Microsoft Media Debate”: Decide Based On Evidence And The Law, Not Economic Dogma

By: Dan Mogin Peter Scheer’s editorial “Better Gates than a Judge as Microsoft CEO” is an example of what’s wrong with the “debate” regarding Microsoft…

Antitrust and Democracy: Adam Smith was Right

By: Dan Mogin Antitrust, monopolies, price gouging and deregulation have been in the news lately.

GCP: Comment on linkLine

By: Jonathan Rubin The Ninth Circuit’s majority opinion in Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. linkLine Communications, Inc.1 is a thoughtful and not at all unreasonable…

Comment on linkLine

Jonathan L. Rubin Patton Boggs LLP The Ninth Circuit’s majority opinion in Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. linkLine Communications, Inc.1 is a thoughtful and not…

Los Angeles Times: Phone Firms Hung Up Over Fees

Phone firms hung up over fees Carriers’ move to block costly teleconference calls raises questions about consumer access. April 05, 2007|James S. Granelli | Times…

The AT&T and BellSouth Merger: What Does It Mean for Consumers?

By: Jonathan Rubin For some businesses, AT&T and BellSouth are among the few—if not the only two— providers which offer the type of complex telecom…

The American Antitrust Institute: Questions of Senator Mike DeWine

Answers to follow-up questions for the hearing “The AT&T and BellSouth Merger: What Does It Mean for Consumers?” before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy…

A Briefing Paper on the AMD v. Intel Monopolization Litigation

Just as many thought the monopolization field was dead, along comes what is likely to be the next U.S. v. Microsoft case. In AMD v.…

The American Antitrust Institute: Issues at the Heart of Exclusionary Conduct

By: Jonathan Rubin Just as many thought the monopolization field was dead, along comes what is likely to be the next U.S. v. Microsoft case.…

New Case: Indiana Ready Mix Price Fixing Conspiracy

The Mogin Law Firm, P.C. files a new case alleging that Irving Materials, inc., its key executives and unknown co-conspirators fixed prices for ready mix…

Mogin Testifies Before State Senate Panel On Antitrust

Dan Mogin testified before a California State Senate Committee investigating competitive conditions in California, entitled “Market Competitiveness: Does State Antitrust Law Need To Be Updated?”…

New Case vs. Intel

The Mogin Law Firm, P.C. files a new case alleging that Intel Corp. monopolized the x86 microprocessor market using exclusive dealing agreements

Mogin To Testify Before State Senate Panel On Antitrust

Dan Mogin has been asked to testify before a California State Senate Committee investigating competitive conditions in California.

Dan Mogin Named “Top Attorney” In Lawyer Poll

Dan Mogin has been named a semi-finalist as one of San Diego’s “Top Attorneys” for his work in corporate and business litigation in a poll…

Mogin To Speak On Competition Law At State Bar Convention

Dan Mogin will be speaking at the California State Bar Convention in San Diego on Saturday, September 10, 2005 beginning at 2:15 p.m. a primer…

The Antitrust Bulletin: The truth about Trinko

To paraphrase Charles Dickens, the Supreme Court’s decision in Veri­zon Communications Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinka, LLP1 (here­inafter Trinka) was the most…

The Antitrust Bulletin: Editor’s note

The articles in this special issue on the Supreme Court’s decision in Verizon Communications Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinka, LLP1 provide thoughtful…

Cointegration and Antitrust: A Primer

Jonathan L. Rubin, J.D., Ph.D.* American Antitrust Institute Introduction On October 8, 2003, Robert F. Engle and Clive W. J. Granger were awarded the Nobel…

Cointegration and Antitrust: A Primer

By: Jonathan Rubin On October 8, 2003, Robert F. Engle and Clive W. J. Granger were awarded the Nobel Prize for their research on the…

New Uniform Class Action Procedures

By: Dan Mogin Many antitrust and competition law cases are also class actions. Class actions are also common in other substantive areas of complex litigation…