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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Legal 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.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan put out a statement on the final 2023 merger guidelines from the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.
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The Open Markets Institute welcomed the announcement that gene sequencing company Illumina will sell cancer test developer Grail following inquiries from antitrust regulators.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan is quoted in Common Dreams regarding how the new merger guidelines just released by the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission “put fealty to law front and center again.”
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Reuters cited the Open Markets-led amicus brief in support of DC’s case against Amazon’s illegal pricing practices in DC v Amazon, as the DC Attorney General works to revive the case.
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Legal 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.
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The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the case
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Legal 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.
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Legal 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.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan discusses antitrust exceptions in baseball, which permits baseball to collude against minor-league players and cap their salaries at poverty levels, while arbitrarily denying teams to cities and towns. The article furthers the potential overturning of this clause by the Supreme Court.
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