#Antitrust
Events indexed under #Antitrust — 108 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | Trump Executive Order Directs Restrictions on Institutional Investor Home Purchases Donald Trump · White House · Department of the Treasury · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-16 | House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing Exposes How Trump Administration Corrupted DOJ Antitrust Enforcement Through Pay-to-Play Schemes and Political Interference Jamie Raskin · Roger P. Alford · Pam Bondi · Chad Mizelle · +15 | reported | |
| 2025-12-10 | Trump Intervenes in Netflix-Warner Bros Antitrust Review, Favoring Politically Connected Paramount Donald Trump · Netflix · Warner Bros. Discovery · Paramount · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-12-06 | Trump Pardons Sports Executive Tim Leiweke After Golf Conversation With Trey Gowdy Donald Trump · Tim Leiweke · Trey Gowdy · Oak View Group · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-11-18 | Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Case as Judge Rules No Monopoly Despite Instagram/WhatsApp Acquisitions Judge James Boasberg · Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-17 | DOJ and FTC Identify 125+ Federal Regulations for Elimination as "Anticompetitive" Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Fired DOJ Antitrust Official Accuses Bondi Leadership of Corruption in $14B Merger Roger Alford · Pam Bondi · Chad Mizelle · Hewlett Packard Enterprise · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Nexstar-Tegna $6.2 Billion Merger Creates Media Giant Reaching 80% of US Households nexstar-media-group · tegna · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-13 | Trump Revokes Executive Order on Competition Donald Trump · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | It was supposed to be a tax and border bill. It could also hand Trump vast new executive powers Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · House Judiciary Committee | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-21 | Pilgrim's Pride, Fined $100M, Donates $5M to Trump Inauguration Under Scrutiny Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Pilgrim's Pride · Senator Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Judge Rules Google Operates Illegal Ad Tech Monopoly, Orders Divestiture of Ad Business Judge Leonie Brinkema · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Zuckerberg lobbies Trump to avoid Meta antitrust trial Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Replaces Lina Khan with Andrew Ferguson, Signals Antitrust Rollback Donald Trump · Andrew Ferguson · Lina Khan · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-10 | FTC Blocks Kroger-Albertsons $24.6B Grocery Merger, Citing Labor and Consumer Harm Federal Trade Commission · Kroger Company · Albertsons Companies · Judge Nelson | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | FTC Sues Big Three PBMs for Artificially Inflating Insulin Prices Through Rebate Schemes Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-05 | Federal Judge Rules Google is Illegal Monopolist in Landmark Search Antitrust Decision Judge Amit Mehta · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-23 | House Oversight Releases Damning PBM Report After 32-Month Investigation: Anticompetitive Policies Exposed U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Adam Kautzner · David Joyner · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-09 | FTC Report Reveals PBM Oligopoly: Top 3 Control 80% of Market, Extract $7.3 Billion Through Markups Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Pelosi Visa Stock Sale Controversy Paul Pelosi · Nancy Pelosi · Rick Scott · Visa Inc. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-24 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC to Block Non-Compete Ban, Challenging Agency Authority U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Business Roundtable | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-21 | DOJ Sues Apple for iPhone Monopoly Maintained Through Ecosystem Lock-In and Developer Restrictions Department of Justice · Apple · Tim Cook · 16 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-27 | DOJ Launches Antitrust Investigation of UnitedHealth's Vertical Integration Strategy and Optum Physician Acquisitions Department of Justice · UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Optum | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-16 | JetBlue-Spirit Merger Blocked by Court, Rare Victory for Biden Antitrust Enforcers Department of Justice · JetBlue Airways · Spirit Airlines · Judge William Young | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-18 | FTC and DOJ Release 2023 Merger Guidelines Rejecting Consumer Welfare Standard Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · Lina Khan · Jonathan Kanter | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-01 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC Over 'Black-Box Environment' Lack of Transparency U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Suzanne Clark | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-26 | FTC Sues Amazon for Illegal Monopoly Maintenance Through Anti-Discounting and Seller Coercion Federal Trade Commission · Amazon · Andy Jassy · 17 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-01 | FTC Issues Policy Statement on Orange Book Patent Gaming: Pharmaceutical Evergreening as Unfair Competition Under Section 5 Federal Trade Commission · Andrew N. Ferguson · Food and Drug Administration · Amphastar · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-10 | FTC Loses Microsoft-Activision Challenge, $69 Billion Merger Approved Despite Opposition Federal Trade Commission · Microsoft Corporation · Activision Blizzard · Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-31 | FTC Loses Challenge to Block Meta's VR Acquisition, Major Setback for Khan Federal Trade Commission · Meta Platforms · Judge Edward Davila · Lina Khan | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-24 | DOJ Sues Google Over Ad Tech Monopoly, Seeks Historic Breakup Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Jonathan Kanter · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-14 | FTC Blocks JAB Consumer Partners Veterinary Clinic Roll-Up: Private Equity Monopolization Strategy Federal Trade Commission · JAB Consumer Partners · JAB Holding Company · National Veterinary Associates · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-07 | FTC Launches Bipartisan Investigation into PBM Market Concentration and Drug Pricing Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Chuck Grassley · Maria Cantwell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-16 | Jonathan Kanter Confirmed as DOJ Antitrust Chief After Longest Delay in Modern History Jonathan Kanter · Department of Justice · U.S. Senate · Antitrust Division | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-09 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14036: 72 Competition Initiatives, Most Comprehensive Since FDR Joe Biden · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · White House Competition Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-15 | Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever Lina Khan · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-16 | Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Google · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-09 | FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization Through Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions, Seeks Breakup Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-20 | DOJ Sues Google for Search Monopoly Through Exclusionary Contracts Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Apple · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-13 | Epic Games Sues Apple Over App Store Monopoly and 30% Commission Tax on Developers Epic Games · Tim Sweeney · Apple · Tim Cook | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-08 | AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly AbbVie · Allergan · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-03 | Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power Raytheon · United Technologies Corporation · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-15 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Completes $74 Billion Celgene Acquisition Despite FTC Concerns Bristol-Myers Squibb · Celgene · Federal Trade Commission · Amgen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-07 | Sutter Health Settles Antitrust Case for $575 Million, Admits to All-or-Nothing Contracting and Price Concealment Sutter Health · Xavier Becerra · California Attorney General | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-01 | Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Big Four Meatpackers Conspired to Fix Beef Prices and Manipulate Markets Tyson Foods · JBS · Cargill · National Beef · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-21 | FTC v. Qualcomm: Judge Lucy Koh Finds Antitrust Violations in Standard Essential Patent Licensing, Later Reversed on Appeal Federal Trade Commission · Lucy Koh · Qualcomm · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-17 | Cigna-Express Scripts $52 Billion Merger Approved: DOJ Greenlights PBM Oligopoly Cigna · Express Scripts · Department of Justice · Makan Delrahim · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-18 | EU Fines Google Record €4.34B for Android Monopoly Abuse Through Bundling Google · European Commission · Margrethe Vestager · Sundar Pichai · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-07 | Bayer Completes $63 Billion Monsanto Acquisition: Agricultural Seeds and Chemicals Consolidate Into Big Four Oligopoly Bayer AG · Monsanto · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-06 | Northrop Grumman Acquires Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion, Creating Solid Rocket Motor Monopoly Northrop Grumman · Orbital ATK · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-04 | Axon Acquires Main Competitor VieVu, Consolidating 80% Control of Police Body Camera Market Axon · VieVu · Safariland Group · NYPD · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-03 | CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power CVS Health · Aetna · Larry Merlo · Mark Bertolini · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-23 | FTC Approves Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Despite Monopolization Concerns Amazon.com Inc. · Jeff Bezos · Whole Foods Market Inc. · Federal Trade Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-27 | EU Fines Google Record €2.42B for Search Manipulation Favoring Google Shopping Google · European Commission · Margrethe Vestager · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-10 | Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi Sued for Insulin Price-Fixing Conspiracy as Prices Rise 300%+ Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · CVS Caremark · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-10 | Anheuser-Busch InBev Completes $107 Billion SABMiller Acquisition: Beer Industry Consolidates Into Duopoly Anheuser-Busch InBev · SABMiller · Molson Coors · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-19 | Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19 Billion to Dominate Messaging Market Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · WhatsApp · Jan Koum · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-09 | American Airlines-US Airways Merger Creates Airline Oligopoly: Big Four Control 75% of Market American Airlines · US Airways · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-17 | Supreme Court Allows Antitrust Challenge to Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Costing Consumers $3.5 Billion Annually Supreme Court of the United States · Federal Trade Commission · Solvay Pharmaceuticals · Actavis · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-03 | Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation Federal Trade Commission · Google Inc. · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-09 | Facebook Acquires Instagram for Billion to Neutralize Potential Competitor Facebook Inc. · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram Inc. · Kevin Systrom · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | Hospital Consolidation Wave (2010-2020): 1,164 Mergers with Only 1% FTC Enforcement Rate Federal Trade Commission · Hospital corporations | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-29 | Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave Delta Air Lines · Northwest Airlines · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division | confirmed | |
| 2008-04-13 | Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly Google · DoubleClick · Federal Trade Commission · Pamela Jones Harbour (dissenting FTC Commissioner) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-29 | AT&T Completes $86 Billion BellSouth Acquisition: Bell System Reassembled After 1984 Breakup AT&T Inc. · BellSouth Corporation · Federal Communications Commission · SBC Communications | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | Ares Management Acquires Aspen Dental: Private Equity Dental Roll-Up Strategy Launches Industry Consolidation Aspen Dental · Ares Management · Leonard Green & Partners · American Securities | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-13 | Oracle Completes PeopleSoft Acquisition for $10.3 Billion After Defeating Antitrust Challenge Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft · JD Edwards | confirmed | |
| 2004-02-26 | Department of Justice Files Antitrust Lawsuit to Block Oracle-PeopleSoft Merger Department of Justice · Oracle · PeopleSoft · Larry Ellison | confirmed | |
| 2001-11-01 | Microsoft Antitrust Settlement Establishes Weak Precedent for Tech Monopolies U.S. Department of Justice · Microsoft Corporation · George W. Bush · John Ashcroft · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-01 | Bush and Obama Administrations Cement Bipartisan Chicago School Antitrust Consensus, Approve Historic Consolidation George W. Bush · Barack Obama · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2000-08-30 | Clear Channel Acquires AMFM Inc. Creating Radio Monopoly with Over 1,200 Stations Clear Channel Communications · Lowry Mays | confirmed | |
| 1998-05-18 | DOJ Files Microsoft Antitrust Suit, Establishes Tech Monopoly Precedent U.S. Department of Justice · Microsoft Corporation · Bill Gates · Joel Klein · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1997-08-01 | Boeing-McDonnell Douglas Merger Approved: Defense Contractor Consolidation Creates Oligopoly Boeing · McDonnell Douglas · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-14 | DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-08 | AT&T Breakup Settlement Finalized, Becoming Last Major Antitrust Action for Decades AT&T · Department of Justice · Ronald Reagan · Robert Bork | confirmed | |
| 1981-04-13 | Reagan Appoints William Baxter as Antitrust Chief, Enforcement Collapses as Chicago School Takes Control Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Stanford Law School · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-20 | Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Douglas Ginsburg · Robert Bork · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Department of Justice Announces Abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement, Adopting Chicago School Critique Department of Justice · Robert Bork · Federal Trade Commission · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed | |
| 1976-09-30 | Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Requires Pre-Merger Notification, Last Major Antitrust Strengthening Before Reagan Dismantlement Gerald Ford · Senator Philip Hart · Senator Hugh Scott · Representative Peter Rodino · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1953-01-01 | FCC Adopts Seven-Station Rule Limiting Broadcast Ownership to Prevent Media Monopoly and Ensure Viewpoint Diversity Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 1950-12-29 | Celler-Kefauver Act Closes Merger Loopholes, Strengthens Government Power to Block Anticompetitive Consolidation U.S. Congress · Representative Emanuel Celler · Senator Estes Kefauver · Harry Truman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1941-05-06 | FCC Establishes Television Ownership Limit of Three Stations to Prevent Media Monopoly Concentration Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 1938-06-16 | Temporary National Economic Committee Launches Comprehensive Investigation of Monopoly and Economic Concentration Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph O'Mahoney · Thurman Arnold · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1938-04-29 | FDR Warns Congress That Concentrated Corporate Power Threatens American Democracy with Fascism Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · concentrated corporate interests | confirmed | |
| 1936-06-19 | Robinson-Patman Act Prohibits Price Discrimination to Protect Small Retailers from Chain Store Power U.S. Congress · Senator Joseph T. Robinson · Representative Wright Patman · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 1927-04-11 | Supreme Court Applies Antitrust Law to Union Secondary Boycotts in Bedford Cut Stone George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court · Journeymen Stone Cutters Association · Bedford Cut Stone Company | confirmed | |
| 1925-05-25 | Supreme Court Reverses Coronado Decision, Opens Unions to Antitrust Liability William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America · Coronado Coal Company | confirmed | |
| 1922-06-05 | Supreme Court Rules Unincorporated Unions Can Be Sued in Coronado Coal Case William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America · Coronado Coal Company | confirmed | |
| 1921-01-03 | Supreme Court Guts Clayton Act Labor Protections in Duplex Printing Decision Mahlon Pitney · U.S. Supreme Court · International Association of Machinists · Duplex Printing Press Company | confirmed | |
| 1920-03-01 | Supreme Court Dismisses U.S. Steel Antitrust Case, Ruling Size Alone Not Illegal - Enforcement Ends Until 1945 U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Joseph McKenna · Justice Day · U.S. Steel Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1914-10-15 | Clayton Antitrust Act Signed: Labor Unions Exempted from Antitrust Laws, Gompers Calls It Labor's Magna Carta President Woodrow Wilson · Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. · Samuel Gompers · American Federation of Labor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1914-09-26 | Wilson Signs Federal Trade Commission Act, Creating Expert Antitrust Enforcement Agency Woodrow Wilson · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1912-06-13 | DuPont Powder Trust Ordered Dissolved, But Family Control and Geographic Proximity Limit Effectiveness U.S. District Court for Delaware · E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company · DuPont family · Hercules Powder Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1911-05-29 | Supreme Court Orders American Tobacco Breakup, Applying Rule of Reason to Tobacco Trust U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Edward White · American Tobacco Company · James Duke | confirmed | |
| 1911-05-15 | Standard Oil Breakup's Paradox - Rockefeller's Wealth Triples as Fragmented Companies Reconsolidate John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 1911-05-15 | Supreme Court Orders Standard Oil Breakup in Landmark Antitrust Decision U.S. Supreme Court · John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Chief Justice Edward White | confirmed | |
| 1911-02-24 | Buck's Stove Case: Gompers, Mitchell, Morrison Sentenced for Contempt, Boycotts Criminalized Samuel Gompers · John Mitchell · Frank Morrison · American Federation of Labor · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1909-03-04 | Roosevelt Leaves Office After 44 Antitrust Suits, Revealing Progressive Era Reform Limits Theodore Roosevelt · William Howard Taft · J.P. Morgan · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1907-11-02 | Roosevelt Approves U.S. Steel Acquisition of Tennessee Coal & Iron During Panic, Exposing Reform Limits Theodore Roosevelt · J.P. Morgan · Elbert H. Gary · Henry Clay Frick · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1907-07-19 | Roosevelt Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against American Tobacco Trust Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Department of Justice · American Tobacco Company · James Buchanan Duke | confirmed |