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By Nathan Fish and Frank E. Sheeder A federal court has temporarily enjoined the Texas Medical Board (TMB) from implementing and enforcing a rule restricting the practice of telemedicine pending resolution of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Teladoc,...

By Lesli C. Esposito and Steven Levitsky The Federal Trade Commission is on a roll in its attack on what it considers anti-competitive effects in the healthcare industry. And that roll has consistently involved challenging activity that once appeared...

By Steven Levitsky and Lesli C. Esposito Are you a practicing physician who sits on a state licensing board? Is your business affected by a state board with practicing physicians on it? If you said yes to either question, you should read on. ...

By John W. Greenleaf III In today’s shifting health care landscape, providers are consolidating and forming strategic partnerships that position them to offer comprehensive, high-quality services at reasonable costs. Motivations vary, but...

By Stephen J. Kastenberg and Marcel S. Pratt A recent California federal court decision has further lifted the thumb on the scales that has historically benefited collegiate athletics in weighing whether their association rules violate the federal...

By Seth Lamden According to the court in William Beaumont Hospital v. Federal Insurance Co ., No. 13–1468 (6th Cir. Jan. 16, 2014) [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ], the answer is "no." The court in that case...

Key industry sectors Energy Introduction EU antitrust rules apply to energy companies/projects both in and outside the EU EU regulatory regime applies in parallel to antitrust rules Access to infrastructure EU merger review...

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has granted attorneys’ fees in the amount of $544.8 million, and expenses in the amount of $27,037,716.97, in the antitrust class action brought in 2005 by merchants against Visa, MasterCard...

Bridgestone Corp., a Tokyo, Japan-based company, has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $425 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices of automotive anti-vibration rubber parts installed in cars sold in the United States and elsewhere...

The Justice Department collected a lot of money in civil and criminal cases during the last fiscal year. Attorney General Eric Holder totaled it up, and came to at least $8 billion. “The department’s enforcement actions not only help to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) A state’s lawsuit may not be removed to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), Jonathan S. Massey of Washington, representing the State of Mississippi’s attorney general, told the...

By Gordon H. Copland, Russell D. Jessee and Nathaniel I. Holland Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division reached an agreement with two natural gas producers who each paid fines of over one-half million dollars to settle claims...

By Gordon H. Copland, Russell D. Jessee and Nathaniel I. Holland Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division reached an agreement with two natural gas producers who each paid fines of over one-half million dollars to settle claims...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on June 17 ruled 5-3 that reverse-payment settlements of patent litigation between the holder of a drug patent and potential generic manufacturers of the drug are not necessarily immunized from...

In a much-anticipated decision, the Supreme Court in FTC v. Actavis held 5-3 that reverse-payment settlements of Hatch-Waxman Act litigation are neither immune from antitrust liability nor presumptively unlawful, but rather must be analyzed under the...