A combined United-Change would have extraordinary power to thrive at the expense of patients, providers, and rivals. The Justice Department and Attorneys General of Minnesota and New York deserve great credit for seeking to block this harmful plan for healthcare consolidation.
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Open Markets applauds DOJ for standing with workers, not powerful employers.
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Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan speaks at a webinar discussion about what the guiding focus of U.S. competition law should be.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci discuss how lawmakers can address concentration and monopolization by enforcing the Robinson-Patman Act.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan addresses the increased harm non-compete clauses are causing to workers and the need for the FTC to ban them.
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Legal Directory Sandeep Vanheesan was quoted critiquing Justice Stephen Breyer’s role in allowing corporate concentration.
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Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan speaks on a panel about collective bargaining in the gig economy at a Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission workshop on competition and labor.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director, argues that the Federal Trade Commission should use its expansive “unfair methods of competition” authority to codify and strengthen existing norms of fair competition under the Sherman Act.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan comments on the power that states have to help push forward antitrust lawsuits to grant collective bargaining rights to misclassified or improperly classified workers.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan describes the important difference between promoting fair competition versus just promoting competition.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes in the Japanese news outlet, The Nikkei, about the limits of competition policy and law as it currently stands, and how to improve it.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan describes how Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has played a key role in the rise of monopoly and oligopoly across the economy.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes a paper describing how the FTC can use its expansive “unfair methods of competition” powers to strengthen fair competition under the Sherman Act.
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Sandeep Vaheesan testified against carving out additional workers from D.C.’s “Non-Compete Conflict of Interest Clarification Amendment Act of 2021” and to instead amend the law to extend its protection to all workers in the District.
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Sandeep Vaheesan publishes a piece about how the NCAA case set back antitrust law.
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Open Markets Institute notes that in its decision in NCAA v. Alston, the Supreme Court preserved the NCAA’s general collusive scheme against college basketball and football players and chose to ignore the case’s larger legal and policy implications.
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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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Sandeep Vanheesan, legal director, and Claire Kelloway, senior reporter, write in the LPE Project about the insufficient portrayals of antimonopoly policy in the field of agriculture. Their article shines a light on the misrepresented economic statuses of farmers across the states.
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