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HL 144 – At the Table with Andrew Cuomo
Put yourself at the table with Andrew Cuomo. You are his most trusted advisor. The one he might listen to attentively, with some power of persuasion. And your objective is not primarily to help Andrew survive but help New York first and foremost or hurt it least....
HL 143 – Why the District Court Dissed the States’ and Feds’ Facebook Cases
United States District Judge James Boasberg covered 120 pages explaining why he completely threw out an antitrust case by 46 states against Facebook and capsized the Federal Trade Commission’s companion case, while tossing it a flimsy life jacket. But on page one of...
HL 142 – A Unanimous SCOTUS Takes a Crack at Reparations in the NCAA Antitrust Case and Whiffs
It was said that bosses in Soviet Union industries pretended to pay workers who pretended to work. Similarly, during this millennium and much of the last century, the roughly 130 NCAA Division I-A schools pretended their major sports athletes were “student-athletes”...
HL 141 – In Antitrust, Will It Be The Wrath of Khan or The Wizard of Oz?
Extravagant power about to be exercised or smoke and mirrors? More the latter but some of the former with some real ability to do things, but other than what is hoped for and promised of her: Lina Khan, the new 32-year-old chair of the Federal Trade Commission....
HL 139 – We Hold These Truths About the Osaka Affair to Be Self-Evident
HL readers know our subject selection is idiosyncratic and pursued only when our take is, if not unique, not what you’re getting virtually any other place. This post like the previous 138 checks the second box, but not the first. It was commissioned by several...
HL 138 – The Squad Backs Iran In Its’ Proxy War Against Israel and The United States
The obligatory prefatory recitation. We don’t like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and considered his March 3, 2015 address to Congress a monumental breach of diplomatic norms, ingratitude incarnate and astoundingly ham-handed (irony intended). His...