Here is a public service announcement filmed by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s, and I promise that you would not correctly guess who pops up at the end if I gave you 10,000 tries
Daniel Hanley
@danielahanley.bsky.social
Senior Legal Analyst at the Open Markets Institute. Newsletter: https://danielhanley.substack.com
Google owes Judge Mehta a thank you for his cowardice and erroneous application of the law.
Honored to be in @lpeproject.bsky.social about the need for a power analysis in affordability politics. Narrow technocratic or deregulatory "affordability" misses the point: affordability is about confronting power dynamics at the core of the cost of living crisis. lpeproject.org/blog/afforda...
Affordability Politics Needs a Power Analysis
A renewed focus on the cost of living crisis is a welcome and potentially unifying frame for the political left. Yet unless we confront the Trump administration's consolidated economic, cultural…
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The 2nd Trump admin delivered the final blow to the myth of the “neutral” state. The state was never neutral, nor can it ever be. Yet the lie endured. The public now sees clearly that the state picks winners. Politicians can no longer hide behind a veil of false neutrality. Good!
One cannot simultaneously be supportive of the rule of law and the rule of reason.
On an ITIF webinar, Diana Moss of the euphemistically named Progressive Policy Institute said "Antitrust is…not some broad policy tool to attack myriad political, economic, and social problems." She is flatly wrong. See my two recent remarks for details👇 danielhanley.substack.com/p/recovering...
All nonfiction books should use footnotes (i.e., citations at the bottom of each page). Not end-of-chapter notes or end-of-book notes. Just straight up footnotes. Everything else is just so frustrating and cumbersome for the reader.
The DOJ's decision to approve the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger is a complete dereliction of duty. The states and private parties must (once again) step in and uphold the rule of law. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
Justice Department approves Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros.
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division signed off on Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros., allowing the blockbuster media merger to move forward.
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Hi! I’m Alexis, and I’m running for U.S. Congress to represent #MD06. I’m a technologist, finance nerd, former regulator, and queer mom of 2. I’m not afraid of holding bullies accountable & my experience makes me uniquely qualified to do just that in Congress.
Appreciate Bill saying this. Hopefully, all the talent the DOJ is losing goes to state offices and plaintiffs’ firms. globalcompetitionreview.com/gcr-usa/arti...
Simply put, my opponents won't (& may be can't) read the legislative history, statutory text, or jurisprudence. ICLE says (while also calling my org’s argument “bizarre”) that “Tampa Electric explicitly prescribed a rule of reason analysis.” No it didn’t. It's that simple folks.
If the liberal SCOTUS justices were actually liberal they would ALWAYS provide a concurring or dissenting opinion covering a purposive approach to statutory interpretation and not just leave the conservative justices free to to use textualism without any rebuttal.
Emanuel Celler viewed the publishing of Bork and Bowman’s 1963 article in Fortune Magazine as a sign of the declining quality of Yale Law School. He’s not wrong.
Brown Shoe, Philadelphia National Bank, Von’s Grocery, Procter & Gamble, and Ford-Autolite were good decisions that effectuated Congress’s legislative directive with Section 7. Besides enacting bright-line rules, a renewed anti-merger policy would adhere to these decisions.
Friendly reminder “there is no systematic empirical evidence that RPA enforcement will lead, or ever has led, to higher prices for consumers” www.promarket.org/2022/10/10/t...
The Needless Desertion of Robinson-Patman - ProMarket
ProMarket is kicking-off a discussion of the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA), an antitrust law preventing price discrimination that hasn’t been enforced in decades. Erik Peinert and Katherine Van Dyck lay…
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Uncle Sam Pays $40,000 for an $8 Knob: The Case For Military Right To Repair, by @F2RNews open.substack.com/pub/fighttor... #righttorepair @warren.senate.gov
The most disappointing aspect of the antitrust field is how shallow the thinking is among academics. Most spend their time writing about inconsequential technical issues rather than how the law can and should be used to improve our lives affirmatively. It's pathetic.
Legal Accountability Center’s complaint against Brendan T. Carr, a Washington D.C. and Maryland-licensed attorney currently serving as the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) legalaccountability.org/actions/comp...
Yes. State *and* local officials can supplement law enforcement while the federal government abdicates its fiduciary responsibilities. globalcompetitionreview.com/gcr-usa/arti...
Mamdani asks Wall Street regulator to halt Western Union merger
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has urged the Department of Financial Services to use its authority over remittance licensing to block the merger of Western Union/Intermex after federal antitrust r...
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Law students would likely be shocked to find just how frequently the mainstream antitrust profession treats Circuit Court decisions as more controlling than Supreme Court rulings, a stance that blatantly contradicts the fundamental structure of our legal system.
A new article in the New England Journal of Medicine says what people like me have been saying for years: mergers are harmful and more rigorous enforcement is needed. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
It was a pleasure and a privilege to speak at Denver Law Review’s incredibly well-run, informative, and timely symposium on antitrust. A video recording of the symposium will be published in the coming weeks. I will also share my remarks soon.
Looking forward to speaking at Denver Law Review’s Volume 103 Symposium, Beyond Profit: Antitrust Regulation, Market Structure, and the Boundaries of Corporate Power this Friday. Details below. I will be publishing my remarks after the event.
Reminder to Dems and progressives: touting a policy as “pro-competition” or “pro-business” is uninspiring and misses the mark on what a progressive policy project aims to do. We are trying to create a more democratic, inclusive, & responsive political & economic system.
Looking forward to the panels at the ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting today. If you’re attending, feel free to reach out or come say hello!
Excited to share a draft of my forthcoming article, “Parker Immunity as a Wellspring of Democratic Governance,” to be published in volume 106 of the Denver Law Review.
Last week, I had the privilege of speaking to the Harvard Law School Antitrust Association. I argued that corporations control our lives with impunity, & that antitrust law is vital to tackling this problem & enhancing the public's economic & political liberty. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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