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...The antitrust regulator on Monday alleged that the acquisition would eliminate “head-to-head” competition among the groups’ brands, including Capri’s Michael Kors as well as Tapestry’s Kate Spade and Coach...
...Additional reporting from Brooke Masters in New York and Stefania Palma in Washington...
...Michael Dreeben, who represented the Department of Justice, countered there was no constitutional basis for the kind of expansive immunity Trump has sought, and such a “novel theory would immunise former...
Landmark lawsuit is Biden administration’s first big antitrust action against iPhone maker
...Stefania Palma For sure. Sonja Hutson Stefania Palma is the FT’s legal and enforcement correspondent. Thanks, Stefania. Stefania Palma Thank you....
...Additional reporting by Michael Pooler...
...Then, last month, Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign official, filed a motion seeking to dismiss the case and disqualify Willis, claiming Wade had used parts of his Fulton County salary to pay for vacations...
...These include Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who served prison time for admitting to lying under oath, and former Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg, who went to jail for fraud...
...Michael Piwowar, a former Republican SEC commissioner who is now with the Milken Institute, on Tuesday said there was “almost a 100 per cent chance that the SEC will be sued by multiple trade associations...
...“Democracy is very much on the ballot,” said Michael Klarman, a professor at Harvard Law School....
...“No matter where this came down, you were going to have a lot of unhappy people,” said Michael Littenberg, partner at Ropes & Gray....
...Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign official and co-defendant in this case, has asked the judge overseeing it to disqualify Willis for what he described as an “improper, clandestine personal relationship...
...“Congress has steadily expanded the SEC’s authority over the past several decades and now, like a house that’s been added on to too many times, it’s crushing the original foundation,” Sidney Michael McColloch...
...“The timing of the Supreme Court’s decision is going to be either beneficial to [Trump] or not, and [the Supreme Court will] be criticised accordingly,” said Michael Klarman, a professor at Harvard Law School...
...should be indicted for allegedly engaging in a “national effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election” were two former Republican senators from Georgia, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, as well as Michael...
...Louis, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...With consumer welfare historically deemed the “lodestar” in antitrust cases, Tuesday’s complaint “does seem to push boundaries a little more” by focusing on the harm to small businesses, said Michael Carrier...
Proposals to regulate firms bring them in line with the likes of audit and legal services
...Echoing a widely-held view in antitrust circles, Michael Carrier, a law professor at Rutgers University, said it marked “the most significant antitrust monopoly case since Microsoft”....
...Separately on Friday, Trump’s business group, the Trump Organization, agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by his former lawyer Michael Cohen in New York, days before a trial was set to begin....
...Michael Roman, Trump campaign official A former White House aide, Roman was director of election day operations for the Trump campaign in 2020....
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