Antitrust, Unfair Competition & Class Actions

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION PRESS RELEASE APRIL 1, 2020 Today, the Federal Trade Commission filed an administrative complaint (a public version of which will be available…

04/01/20

FTC.gov Press Release – March 24, 2020 The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division today issued joint statement detailing an…

03/25/20

Attorney Tim LaComb was quoted in Investment News this week in an article, “When it comes to RIA custody, how big is too big?”. The…

03/17/20

Published in Bloomberg Law – February 27, 2020 INSIGHT: FTC’s Inquiry Into Common Ownership Benefits Markets, Consumers By: Daniel Mogin The FTC appears to be…

02/27/20

Attorney Timothy LaComb was quoted in a recent Financial Planning article, “Schwab Wants TD But DOJ Has Questions — And Not Just for Schwab.” The…

02/20/20

MoginRubin has been recognized by Global Competition Review as a finalist for the 2020 Regional Firm of the Year – Americas Award.   According to GCR,…

02/18/20

MoginRubin partner Jon Rubin was quoted in the recent Reuters article, “Qualcomm to Ask Appeals Court for Vindication in FTC Antitrust Case.” The article revisits the…

02/14/20

MoginRubin Partner and University at Buffalo School of Law alumna Jennifer Oliver was recently appointed to the law school’s Dean’s Advisory Council (DAC). The DAC…

01/22/20

Partner Jennifer Oliver recently authored an article in Bloomberg Law that explores the hidden antitrust risks involved in nonreportable M&A deals. The article and accompanying…

01/07/20

MoginRubin was recognized in the January 2020 issue of LC News, a publication of The Lawyers Club of San Diego, for having been named by…

01/07/20

Partner Jennifer Oliver was quoted in Law360’s article, Major Antitrust Developments to Watch in 2020. The article reviews some of the key antitrust cases on…

01/06/20

Partners Dan Mogin and Jonathan Rubin were quoted in a recent Law360 article, The Most Closely Watched Merger Reviews of 2020. The article examines four…

01/02/20

Effective January 1, 2020, Joy Sidhwa became senior counsel at MoginRubin. Previously she was a senior attorney at the firm. Joy focuses her work on…

01/02/20

MoginRubin is pleased to announce that Partner Jennifer Oliver and Associate Timothy LaComb have been recognized by the National Law Review as “2019 Go-To Thought…

12/09/19

Partner Jennifer Oliver was quoted in a recent Law360 article, What To Watch As T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Fight Goes To Trial. The article discusses the megamerger…

12/06/19

Getting Biosimilars to Market, a recent virtual panel moderated by MoginRubin’s Joy Sidhwa, examines commercial challenges facing biosimilars from both the patent and the antitrust…

11/27/19

Partner Jonathan Rubin continues his discussion of emerging antitrust issues associated with the growing business of Esports in Part II of The Emerging Role of…

11/12/19

SAN DIEGO, November 1, 2019 – MoginRubin LLP has been named as one of the nation’s top Litigation-Antitrust law firms in the 2020 U.S. News—Best…

11/01/19

Partner Dan Mogin was quoted in Fern’s AG Insider discussing recent price-fixing allegations against big beef companies. As co-counsel on the Pacific Agri-Products lawsuit, Dan…

11/01/19

Do the big tech companies — and those of us who enjoy their myriad innovations — owe a big “thank you” to the federal government…

10/24/19

SAN DIEGO – October 23, 2019 –MoginRubin has been named by the Daily Journal as a “2019 Top Boutique Law Firm” in California for Antitrust…

10/23/19

Last week, MoginRubin Partner Jonathan Rubin participated in the Game Business & Legal Affairs Conference: VGBA Summit North in Seattle, Washington. The Summit, which takes…

10/08/19

MoginRubin is proud to announce that partners Dan Mogin, Jonathan Rubin and Jennifer Oliver have been honored for their plaintiff work in this year’s Lawdragon…

10/02/19

Washington, DC – September 25, 2019 – A group of non-bank ATM operators, represented by MoginRubin LLP, has moved to certify a class of operators across…

09/25/19

MoginRubin partner Jonathan Rubin was recently quoted in Law360 as saying, “The ATM restraints imposed by Visa and Mastercard amount to price-fixing and are unambiguously…

09/24/19

On September 16, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice released the 2018 Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Report, which summarizes…

09/18/19

From The New York Times:   Chicago School Professor Fights ‘Chicago School’ Beliefs That Abet Big Tech   Luigi Zingales, a finance professor at the…

09/17/19

Partner Jonathan Rubin recently wrote a two-part essay for Sports Litigation Alert and Sports Law Expert that examines the emerging role antitrust law will play…

09/16/19

MoginRubin Partner Jonathan Rubin recently co-authored an article with University of Copenhagen Associate Professor Christian Bergqvist regarding antitrust complaints against Google. The article expertly examines…

09/10/19

MoginRubin partner Jennifer M. Oliver will be a panelist at a discussion of class certification on September 24th. The event will be hosted by McDermott…

09/05/19

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) JUNE 04, 2019 MoginRubin LLP, a nationally recognized law firm dedicated to competition law, is pleased to announce that it has been ranked as…

06/04/19

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jennifer Oliver, MoginRubin’s Newest Partner, Offers Advice for Advancement: Dedicate Yourself to the Firm and the Cases SAN DIEGO – May 24,…

05/24/19

Jodie Williams, Partner at MoginRubin LLP was featured in a podcast about women in antitrust from the ABA 2019 Spring Meeting in March. Click here…

05/06/19

Christian Bergqvist University of Copenhagen – Faculty of Law Jonathan Rubin MoginRubin LLP Date Written: March 18, 2019 Abstract During the late 2000s, several jurisdictions,…

04/12/19

From The Washington Post: Facebook, Google and other big tech giants are about to face a ‘reckoning,’ state attorneys general warn “I think what we’ve…

03/21/19

From The New York Times: Spotify Accuses Apple of Anticompetitive Practices in Europe Is Apple abusing its power to monopolize the market? Spotify sure thinks…

03/14/19

MoginRubin LLP celebrated International Women’s Day last week by attending a luncheon hosted by the Lawyers Club of San Diego. MoRu supports the empowerment of…

03/12/19

Jodie Williams, a Partner at MoginRubin LLP co-authored an article with Michelle Lowery, a Partner at McDermott Will & Emery, for The Antitrust Source regarding…

03/12/19

Who’s regulating competition in the tech world? Read Gene Kimmelman’s blog on publicknowledge.org to find out.  

02/22/19

MoginRubin LLP is the Audio Visual Sponsor of the 41st Annual Dinner and Installation of Officers, hosted by Filipino American Lawyers of San Diego and…

01/25/19

We are proud to announce that our own Daniel Mogin has been selected as a panelist for the Class Action Mastery Forum next week at…

01/11/19

You may recall, when MoginRubin LLP attorney Dan Mogin was ranked in Best Lawyers’ 2018 listing, the sheer excitement of this annual honor drove him to “not rule…

11/01/18

Jodie Williams, a Partner at MoginRubin LLP, co-authored a piece with Melissa Slawson, General Counsel and Vice President of Government Affairs and Education at GeoLinks,…

10/17/18

Dan Mogin from MoginRubin LLP was honored last week at the Trial Lawyer Excellence Awards in Chicago, by Jury Verdict Reporter. Upon receiving the award,…

10/17/18

Jodie Williams from MoginRubin LLP attended the Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum in Minneapolis, Minnesota last month. To learn more about the event, click here. See…

10/08/18

MoginRubin LLP is proud to announce that our Managing Partner, Daniel Mogin, will be honored for his work in competition law at the upcoming Jury…

09/13/18

MoginRubin LLP is pleased to announce Jodie Williams has become its newest Partner. Jodie joined the firm in 2013, and has proven through her hard…

09/10/18

Consumers can choose to look at the stein half empty after a recent dismissal of a private Section 7 challenge to Anheuser-Busch InBev, SA/NV’s (“ABI”)…

09/05/18

We are proud to announce that Best Lawyers has selected Daniel Mogin, Managing Partner of MoginRubin LLP as a Best Lawyer 2018. To learn about…

08/29/18

MoginRubin LLP is proud to sponsor the 11th Annual KABA-SD Dinner on September 6, 2018. See below for more information, or visit KabaSD.org

08/21/18

MoginRubin LLP is a proud sponsor of the 5th Annual Law Scholarship Golf Outing, hosted by FALSD on September 13, 2018. Simply click on the…

08/21/18

After over a year of negotiations for approval, on August 9, 2018, Tribune Media Company terminated its merger with Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.  The mega-deal…

08/15/18

For most viewers watching the PGA Tour, the clothing on golfers and their caddies is unlikely to make an impact.  Yet the advertising value—if not…

08/14/18

Jodie Williams has been appointed to serve as Vice Chair of the American Bar Association’s Civil Practice and Procedure Committee for the 2018 – 2019…

07/30/18

Jonathan Rubin and Christian Berqvist published their comments in Global Competition Review regarding the upcoming decision by the European Commission regarding the DG-Competition investigation into…

07/13/18

Forbes dives into law firm reactions to the AT&T-Time Warner merger to find out where the trends are headed. It seems that no one believes…

07/11/18

In the most recent edition of Trial Practice: Trying Antitrust, an ABA-published periodical, MoginRubin’s Jodie Williams discusses the recent Steves & Sons, Inc. v. Jeld-Wen, Inc.…

06/08/18

Jonathan Rubin, Partner, has been invited to speak alongside Ole Wendler Pedersen, Vice President of Novo Nordisk, at an event in Copenhagen intended to expose…

06/04/18

Two decades later, we shouldn’t forget the dangers of dominant technology companies.   Read the New York Times article about what the Microsoft case taught…

05/18/18

Sylvia Siegel brought a customer’s perspective to the regulation of California utilities and spent 16 years fighting against rates and rules that she maintained were…

05/18/18

Payment Logistics Files Antitrust Lawsuit against Shift4 Payments, Shift4 Corp. and Lighthouse Network Company alleges anticompetitive behavior, monopolization and attempted monopolization that blocks competition and…

04/24/18

Bloomberg on Rubin PetIQ Filing   Pet Medication Wholesalers Sue to Unwind Rival PetIQ Merger Published: Apr 05 2018 18:46:17 * Two pet medicine wholesalers…

04/16/18

MoginRubin LLP would like to congratulate our own Daniel Mogin, as he has, once again, been selected as a Super Lawyer in Antitrust Litigation by…

04/13/18

MoginRubin LLP, representing Plaintiffs Bay Medical Solutions Inc. and Med Vets Inc., have filed a case in the Northern District of California to stop a…

04/06/18

On March 20, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission reaffirmed its guidelines for the exchange of sensitive competitive information — like price projections, customer lists or future product…

04/04/18

Yesterday, the Supreme Court confirmed that a final decision in one case, if being tried with other consolidated cases, is an immediately appealable order.  This…

03/28/18

Business Insurance published an article this week written by MoginRubin LLP’s own Jennifer Oliver, regarding what happens when complications with M&A deals arise. Click here…

03/07/18

12/21/17

Jonathan Rubin from MoginRubin LLP met with Bloomberg Businessweek‘s Peter Coy to discuss the Aetna-CVS merger. See what he had to say by reading the…

12/09/17

MoginRubin LLP’s very own Jonathan Rubin was featured in the New York Post this week, regarding his thoughts on Judge Richard Leon and his involvement…

12/08/17

Jonathan Rubin from MoginRubin LLP met with Jacob Gershman from the Wall Street Journal this week to discuss U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon’s appointment…

11/27/17

Comments of Jonathan Rubin, with the Washington, D.C. office of antitrust law firm MoginRubin LLP, on the DOJ’s just-filed challenge to the proposed AT&T-Time Warner…

11/22/17

Jonathan Rubin, an antitrust attorney with MoginRubin LLP, discussed President Trump’s possible involvement in the proposed merger between AT&T and Time Warner with The Hill…

11/22/17

The Department of Justice is preparing to litigate the proposed acquisition of Time Warner Inc. by AT&T Inc. if the parties are unable to reach…

11/09/17

Luxottica and Essilor announced their intent to merge in January 2017, and regulatory agencies around the world have been investigating whether the merger poses anticompetitve…

11/08/17

Last month, the European Commission announced that it was taking a closer look at the Luxottica/Essilor proposed merger.  On November 3, 2017, it was reported…

11/08/17

In its latest pro bono effort, MoginRubin has assisted a group of antitrust law professors in filing an amicus curiae brief in the matter of…

10/23/17

On October 3, 2017, the FTC and the DOJ released their joint Hart-Scott-Rodino merger report for the fiscal year, ending September 30, 2016. They reported…

10/09/17

On September 26, 2017, the Department of Justice challenged Parker-Hannifin Corporation’s $4.3 billion already-consummated acquisition of Clarcor Inc. as anticompetitive.  The deal, announced in late…

09/26/17

On September 14, 2017, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced two pieces of legislation intended to reform antitrust scrutiny of mergers and acquisitions under the Clayton…

09/19/17

By: Jodie M. Williams Jodie Williams, counsel for MoginRubin LLP, authored a guest blog for Lawyers Club San Diego, regarding women in the field of…

09/12/17

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…

03/02/17

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

12/14/16

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…

08/16/16

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…

07/14/16

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

06/09/16

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…

05/11/16

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…

05/09/16

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…

04/14/16

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…

03/23/16

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.…

01/20/16

By ROBERT H. LANDE & JOSHUA P. DAVIS

03/08/13

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,…

02/22/13

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…

06/25/10

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

09/25/09

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…

04/30/09

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

02/27/09

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…

09/23/08

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…

08/18/08

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

06/15/08