Antitrust
Antitrust
PAST REPRESENTATION
In Laumann v. NHL, 56 F. Supp. 3d 280 (S.D.N.Y. 2014) and Garber v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball (S.D.N.Y.), the firm settled major antitrust actions against the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball. In these cases, major sports leagues agreed, for the first time, to unbundle their internet sports offerings and to offer individual team streams at discounted prices. The firm also obtained a major ruling concerning the application of the baseball antitrust exemption, in which the court ruled that the exemption does not cover baseball’s territorial broadcast rules
Lawyers at the firm helped develop the law in the area of pharmaceutical antitrust litigation in such cases as Chemi SpA v. GlaxoSmithKline, 356 F. Supp. 2d 495 (E.D. Pa. 2005); Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. v. Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., 1997 WL 805261 (E.D. Pa. 1997); and King Drug Co. of Florence Inc. v. Cephalon, Inc., 702 F. Supp. 2d 514 (E.D. Pa. 2010).
Thanks to the efforts of the firm’s lawyers, an auto parts supplier won an injunction against General Motors that would have destroyed the distributor’s business in Beilowitz v. General Motors Corp., 233 F. Supp. 2d 631 (D.N.J. 2002).
CURRENT REPRESENTATION
Winters v. Ocean Spray (D. Mass) – The firm represents independent cranberry growers against Ocean Spray in an antitrust action alleging that Ocean Spray monopsonized the cranberry production market using anticompetitive methods. A trial date is pending.
National Football League v. Ninth Inning, Inc. (C.D. Cal.) – The firm represents a class of businesses and consumers in an action alleging an antitrust conspiracy between the NFL, its teams, and DirecTV to restrict access to out-of-market football games and drive prices up to access those games. The case is presently being appealed to the Supreme Court by the defendants following a landmark victory for the plaintiffs in the Ninth Circuit. See In re National Football League’s Sunday Ticket Antitrust Litigation, 933 F.3d 1136 (9th Cir. 2019).
Host International, Inc. v. Marketplace, PHL, LLC (E.D. Pa.) – The firm represents a business alleging that pouring rights agreements, required of vendors at the Philadelphia International Airport, are anticompetitive restraints on trade.