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Sandeep Vaheesan is the legal director at the Open Markets Institute. He leads Open Markets’ legal advocacy and research work, including its amicus program.
Vaheesan works on a range of anti-monopoly topics, including antitrust law’s role in structuring labor markets and promoting fair competition. From 2015 to 2018, he served as a regulations counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he helped develop rules on payday and title lending and debt collection practices. Before that, he worked at the American Antitrust Institute.
Vaheesan’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Harvard Law & Policy Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Yale Law Journal Forum. He has a forthcoming book titled Democracy in Power with the University of Chicago Press on the history of public and cooperative power in the United States and the lessons it offers for building a clean, publicly accountable electric industry today.
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in El Koussa v. Campbell, a case before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts challenging proposed ballot initiatives in Massachusetts concerning whether app-based companies like Uber and Lyft should be allowed to legally classify their drivers as independent contractors.
Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule to ban non-compete clauses for all workers.
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in Ohio v. Google, a case in which the State of Ohio seeks to designate Google as a common carrier under state law in order to stop Google from preferencing it’s own products and services.
Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley layout the major legal and policy procedures lined up in 2024 for the banning of noncompete clauses.
Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and policy counsel Tara Pincock encourage the public to support the fight of the red states in bringing an important antitrust cause to the Supreme Court.
Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement regarding the news that two of the U.S.’s largest credit card companies, Capitol One and Discover, seek to merge.
The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in two cases currently before the Supreme Court concerning states’ ability to regulate certain companies in the public interest, or as “common carriers”: Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v Paxton.
Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan discusses about a new book that shows how Uber was a symbol of a neoliberal philosophy that neglected public funding and regulation in favor of rule by private corporations.
Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan echos the Biden Administration’s valuable promises to break with the neoliberal antitrust and competition policy program that has one-sidedly created benefits only for large corporations.