Also from me @PerezJr : Booker and Blumenthal float college athlete rights bill, as Washington examines the NCAA subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2020/1…
The bill, introduced today, would require money-making college sports programs to share half of their profits with players and allow athletes to sign endorsement deals.
It comes a day after SCOTUS said it will take up the NCAA's appeal in an #antitrust suit over player pay.
“If the court were ever going to take a case, this is the time to do it with all the state legislation, activity at the federal level and the confusion over the application of antitrust to college sports.” @sportslawguy said

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17 Dec
Alright, it's a go. 38 AGs sued Google today: DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and 35 states. Both D and Rs.
The suit asks for both "structural divestitures as well as effective, monitorable, and measurable conduct remedies" against Google (that's legal speak for breakup plus potential ongoing oversight)
The suit alleges Google has three overlapping monopolies: general search services, general search advertising, and general search text advertising
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16 Dec
Texas has hired two law firms to help litigate an antitrust case against Google over ad tech. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2020/1…
The lead litigators will be Mark Lanier and Ken Starr.
Lanier, well-known litigator particularly on product liability, has more than $20 billion in verdicts to his name. Antitrust nerds may remember him from the Retractable v Becton Dickinson suit a few years back. (Retractable won at trial; overturned by 5th Circuit)
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5 Oct
From reading the Ken Buck minority report, though, there are 4 proposals he says Rs can support: additional funding for the agencies; data portability & interoperability; shifting burden of proof in merger cases; and market definition isn't required w/ direct proof of mkt power
On the shifting burden, Buck is a little squishy, saying "Congress must be exact in its language."
There are 7 other "maybes" that Buck says they could get behind but want further discussion/hearings about. 4 relate to monopolization law and 3 relate to mergers.
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4 Oct
Texas bombshell puts Google advertising antitrust suit at risk subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2020/1…
Last week, seven top officials in TX AG Ken Paxton's office reported him to law enforcement for "improper influence, abuse of office, bribery, and other potential criminal offenses.”
H/T to @statesman for the original story statesman.com/news/20201003/…
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17 Dec 19
H/T to my friends over @FTCWATCH who got an exclusive with @JusticeATR's Makan Delrahim in their latest issue. A couple of highlights:
@FTCWATCH @JusticeATR On the split w states in Sprint-T-Mobile: " I would always look at the motivation of somebody who might be criticizing me first ...State AGs are elected officials — they are political bodies. They are not disinterested as federal prosecutors are and should remain."
@FTCWATCH @JusticeATR On disputes w @FTC over Big Tech: "There was an agreement made between the FTC and DOJ, July 12th, that [the FTC] no longer found convenient. There was a change in position ...This issue between the two agencies has been going on for years. I didn’t create the clearance problem."
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