BARAK KOREN—Americans spend over four trillion dollars using debit cards each year. But what really happens behind the scenes when you pull out your debit card at the grocery store to tap and pay? To illustrate, say you make a fifty-dollar purchase using your Visa debit card, issued by Chase Bank. This transaction will charge […]
ALEJANDRO OTERO—As the hip crowd gathered around the runway in Chelsea for New York Fashion Week, the case for the future of the fashion industry began in Lower Manhattan. On September 9, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York began hearing arguments in the FTC’s case against the merger […]
KATIE BARKER—On August 5, 2024, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in United States v. Google LLC that Google illegally maintained a monopoly in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act. In his 277-page opinion, Judge Mehta found that Google monopolized the general search services […]
DANIELA CARRERAS—The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and eleven state attorneys general filed a civil antitrust lawsuit on October 20 against Google, arguing the tech giant engaged in exclusionary conduct to preserve its monopoly in the search and search advertising markets. This high-profile case is the biggest tech antitrust lawsuit that the government has […]
ASHLEY PARSONS—In June of 2019, the House Judiciary Committee commenced its investigation into the four tech giants: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. This is the first time since the late 1990s, when Microsoft stood trial for antitrust charges, that the Committee has carefully examined the monopoly power of big tech. After 16 months of investigations […]
