Publications
Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement on the Department of Justice and state attorneys general suing to break up the entertainment and ticketing monopoly, Live Nation-Ticketmaster (formally “Live Nation Entertainment”).
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan goes into detail on the recent brief filed by Open Markets, and the attempt by Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. to legalize their unlawful business model in Massachusetts--to the detriment of drivers, high-road rivals, and the state's labor market standards.
Read MoreOpen 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.
Read MoreLegal 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.
Read MoreLegal 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.
Read MoreLegal 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.
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley outlines 25 characteristics that exemplary legislation from Congress should include to effectuate a vigorous antitrust enforcement policy.
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley details why the rule of reason should be completely abandoned in favor of bright-line rules.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MorePolicy Director Phillip Longman highlights the need for price regulation in the airline industry alongside the milestone decision by a federal judge to block JetBlue’s acquisition of Spirit Airlines.
Read MorePolicy Director Phillip Longman publishes a featured piece largely based on a pivotal report published by Longman/Open Markets and the Center for Journalism & Liberty at Open Markets on how the breakdown of journalism's business model is not the result of inherent features of the internet or of digital technology.
Read MoreLegal 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.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan and policy counsel Tara Pincock co-published a powerful piece emphasizing that even the biggest publishers are no match for Amazon’s death grip on the book market.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan publishes a piece on how Maine’s voters recently rejected a referendum for publicly owned energy after a disinformation campaign led by the energy lobby.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the case
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan analyzes the lens of sociologist Jakob Feinig on challenging the dominant view of money as a scarce commodity and how this aligns with the role of President FDR and the New Deal.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan publishes a piece with former OMI Louis Brandeis Fellow, Andy Fitch, discussing how the limited resources available for federal judges when facing antitrust trials can result in misleading verdicts for the defendants.
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley analyzes the ways in which antitrust enforcement plays a role in the structure of fair market competition.
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