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In recent years, participants in U.S. healthcare markets have witnessed aggressive efforts by U.S. authorities to pursue criminal penalties for antitrust violations. That trend appears set to continue: as Acting Assistant Attorney General Richard Powers reiterated during an interview on February 12, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) remains focused on investigating and, if appropriate, criminally prosecuting antitrust violations in healthcare industries.
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Time for a Check-Up: the U.S. Healthcare Industry Remains Subject to Aggressive Criminal Antitrust Enforcement
In recent years, participants in U.S. healthcare markets have witnessed aggressive efforts by U.S. authorities to pursue criminal penalties for antitrust violations. That trend appears set to continue: as Acting Assistant Attorney General Richard Powers reiterated during an interview on February 12, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) remains focused on investigating and, if appropriate, criminally prosecuting antitrust violations in healthcare industries.
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I'm Not Messing Around
Elon Musk is “not messing around,” vowing to sue Alameda County, California, where his main plant is headquartered. Texas and Nevada are aggressively angling to snatch his business. A boycott is threatened against Costco over the company’s nationwide mandatory mask policy. Low tax states have relaxed lockdowns earlier than other states and are recruiting for corporate headquarters post-pandemic. Apparently, we aren’t all in this together.
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Unilaterally Amended Terms of Service “Agreements” Put Customers in a Bind
Jessica Roberts and Jim Hawkins, professors at the University of Houston Law Center, discuss the growing digital health-services trend, and the need for stronger consumer privacy safeguards on the personal information collected by these online companies.
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