Open Markets Institute announces its filing of an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit to reverse the district court’s faulty decision in Sanofi’s lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Mylan.
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Phillip Longman, policy director at Open Markets Institute, presented testimony at the House Veterans' Affairs Committee Hearing on the Role of Infrastructure in Veterans’ Access to Care and Benefits.
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Open Markets urges Biden Administration to block Amazon’s monopolistic ploy to take over MGM.
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In a close study of The New York Times, journalist Dan Froomkin makes the case that Facebook’s funding of major news providers creates dangerous conflicts of interest—in The Washington Monthly on behalf of The Open Markets Institute’s Center for Journalism & Liberty.
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Open Markets Institute announces its filing of an amicus brief in support of stock photography company Dreamstime in its lawsuit against Google for abusing its monopoly in online search.
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Executive Director Barry Lynn commends the president’s decision to nominate Khan, a former legal director at Open Markets Institute, to serve on the FTC.
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Barry Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, provides testimony at the “Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century: The Case for Antitrust Reform” hearing for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, chaired by Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
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Groups and scholars join to file brief supporting players in their fight against the NCAA cartel.
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Open Markets Institute announces three new hires including Managing Editor, Finance Associate and a new position, Chief Economist.
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The Open Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and six other writers associations representing thousands of book authors call on the Justice Department to move immediately to block the private conglomerate, Bertelsmann, from buying the book publisher, Simon & Schuster.
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The Open Markets Institute and a diverse set of environmental, family farm, farm policy and rural community organizations sent a letter to the White House requesting an executive order to enact a moratorium on mergers and acquisitions in the food and agricultural industries.
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Open Markets Institute asserts that Google’s threat to stop providing search services to the people of Australia, and Facebook’s threat to block Australians from sharing links to news proves the platforms pose a fundamental threat to the world’s democracies.
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Open Markets Institute calls on the Biden Administration to immediately make clear that it intends to block Google's acquisition of FitBit in order to protect Americans and to demonstrate that it will not abide further disrespect by Google of democratic rule of law.
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Open Markets Institute condemns racism and neo-fascism absolutely and demands that lawmakers and law enforcers move immediately to fix the socially destructive business models of Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other essential platforms.
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Open Markets Institute applauds the Australian competition regulator for refusing Google's attempt to circumvent further investigation about its proposed acquisition of Fitbit, urges the EU to reverse its decision to approve the merger, and calls on the U.S. DOJ, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and other nations to reject the deal.
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Open Markets Institute releases a statement asserting that the new lawsuit against Google by state AG’s makes clear that Google threatens free speech and democracy, and highlighting need for structural separation and nondiscrimination rules.
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Open Markets Institute is pleased to publish an important paper by the economists John Kwoka and Tommaso Valletti that looks at cases in which U.S. and European law enforcers required corporations to unwind completed mergers.
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