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The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) Monday filed charges against former US congressman Stephen Buyer for insider trading. The SEC’s complaint states that when “Buyer left Congress in 2011 and set up a consulting company called the Steve Buyer Group,” in both 2018 and 2019 Buyer used material non-public information from two clients “to trade securities [...]

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Ian Profiri is JURIST’s Staff Correspondent for Canada. He files this dispatch from Calgary. Trucker protests against vaccine mandates in Ottawa continue. The “Freedom Convoy” has now spent nearly a week occupying the streets surrounding Parliament Hill, and it is believed they intend to extend their stay for as long as possible. Frustration and discontent [...]

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Yesterday, the CEOs of Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple testified before the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee in a hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power.” As Congress takes up the question of market power in the tech sector, the time is ripe to consider the issue in our broader economy. For decades, corporations in a [...]

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Judge Victor Marrero of the US District Court in Manhattan issued an order on Tuesday dismissing a complaint by numerous state attorneys general over the proposed merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. The states had sued to prevent T-Mobile’s takeover on the grounds that it would raise consumer prices and violate antitrust rules by lessening competition [...]

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Attorneys general for 10 US states brought a civil antitrust suit Tuesday to permanently enjoin the proposed acquisition of Sprint by T-Mobile. T-mobile and Sprint are two of only four mobile network operators (MNOs) in the US and serve approximately 80 million and 55 million customers, respectively. T-Mobile’s previously attempts to merge with AT&T and [...]

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The US government on Monday filed a lawsuit against Sprint Communications, Inc., alleging the company overcharged them for telephone wiretapping services. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official...

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