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#Monopoly

Events indexed under #Monopoly — 34 entries in the record.

34 events From Jan 1, 1867 To Nov 18, 2025 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-11-18Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Case as Judge Rules No Monopoly Despite Instagram/WhatsApp Acquisitions
Judge James Boasberg · Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · +1
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2025-08-19Nexstar-Tegna $6.2 Billion Merger Creates Media Giant Reaching 80% of US Households
nexstar-media-group · tegna · Federal Communications Commission
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2025-04-17Judge Rules Google Operates Illegal Ad Tech Monopoly, Orders Divestiture of Ad Business
Judge Leonie Brinkema · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1
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2024-08-05Federal Judge Rules Google is Illegal Monopolist in Landmark Search Antitrust Decision
Judge Amit Mehta · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1
confirmed
2024-03-21DOJ Sues Apple for iPhone Monopoly Maintained Through Ecosystem Lock-In and Developer Restrictions
Department of Justice · Apple · Tim Cook · 16 State Attorneys General
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2023-09-26FTC Sues Amazon for Illegal Monopoly Maintenance Through Anti-Discounting and Seller Coercion
Federal Trade Commission · Amazon · Andy Jassy · 17 State Attorneys General
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2022-06-14FTC 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
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2022-05-18Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Baby Formula After Abbott Recall Exposes Dangerous Monopoly
Joe Biden · Abbott Nutrition · Food and Drug Administration · U.S. Department of Defense
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2020-01-01Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance
DaVita · Fresenius · American Kidney Fund · Richard Blumenthal · +1
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2018-10-16AbbVie Humira Patent Thicket Delays US Biosimilars Until 2023 Despite 2016 Patent Expiration and European Competition
AbbVie · Amgen · Samsung Bioepis · Mylan · +4
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2018-05-04Axon Acquires Main Competitor VieVu, Consolidating 80% Control of Police Body Camera Market
Axon · VieVu · Safariland Group · NYPD · +2
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2016-10-01Council of Economic Advisers: Market Power Suppresses Wages, Contributes to $1+ Trillion in Lost Worker Income
Council of Economic Advisers · Workers · Dominant firms
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2016-01-01Whistleblower Alleges Dialysis Giants DaVita and Fresenius Steer Patients Through American Kidney Fund in $247M Kickback Scheme
DaVita · Fresenius Medical Care · American Kidney Fund · Department of Justice · +1
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2013-01-01Four Firms Control 85%+ of Multiple U.S. Industries, Documenting Oligopolistic Market Structure
Airlines · Telecom companies · Pharmaceutical companies · Agribusiness
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2007-08-27Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme
Questcor Pharmaceuticals · Mallinckrodt · Federal Trade Commission · Humana · +2
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2006-12-29AT&T Completes $86 Billion BellSouth Acquisition: Bell System Reassembled After 1984 Breakup
AT&T Inc. · BellSouth Corporation · Federal Communications Commission · SBC Communications
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2002-01-01Insulin Prices Begin Tripling 2002-2013 as Three Manufacturers Control 99% of Market - From $231 to $762 Annually
Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · Congressional Diabetes Caucus · +1
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2000-01-01Top 10% of Firms Capture 90% of Profit Growth Between 1980-2000, Documenting Monopolization
Dominant firms · Smaller competitors
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1982-01-08AT&T Breakup Settlement Finalized, Becoming Last Major Antitrust Action for Decades
AT&T · Department of Justice · Ronald Reagan · Robert Bork
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1938-06-16Temporary National Economic Committee Launches Comprehensive Investigation of Monopoly and Economic Concentration
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph O'Mahoney · Thurman Arnold · U.S. Congress · +1
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1938-04-29FDR Warns Congress That Concentrated Corporate Power Threatens American Democracy with Fascism
Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · concentrated corporate interests
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1922-11-01Scripps-McRae League Renamed Scripps-Howard as Second-Largest Newspaper Chain Consolidates Power
E.W. Scripps · Roy W. Howard · Robert Scripps · Scripps-Howard Newspapers
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1920-03-01Supreme 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
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1920-01-01Hearst Newspaper Empire Reaches 28 Papers Controlling One in Four American Readers Through Yellow Journalism Tactics
William Randolph Hearst · Hearst Communications
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1911-05-29Supreme 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
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1911-05-15Standard Oil Breakup's Paradox - Rockefeller's Wealth Triples as Fragmented Companies Reconsolidate
John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · U.S. Supreme Court
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1911-05-15Supreme Court Orders Standard Oil Breakup in Landmark Antitrust Decision
U.S. Supreme Court · John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Chief Justice Edward White
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1907-07-19Roosevelt Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against American Tobacco Trust
Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Department of Justice · American Tobacco Company · James Buchanan Duke
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1901-02-25U.S. Steel Corporation Formed - First Billion-Dollar Corporation in History
J.P. Morgan · Andrew Carnegie · Charles Schwab · U.S. Steel Corporation · +1
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1892-07-01Carnegie Steel Company Formed Through Massive Vertical Integration Consolidation
Andrew Carnegie · Henry Clay Frick · Carnegie Steel Company
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1882-01-02Standard Oil Trust Formed - First Modern Corporate Monopoly Structure
John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler · Samuel C. T. Dodd · +1
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1872-02-17Cleveland Massacre - Rockefeller Consolidates Oil Refining Monopoly in Six Weeks
John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler · South Improvement Company
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1870-01-10Standard Oil Company Incorporated in Ohio by John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler · Samuel Andrews · +1
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1867-01-01Vanderbilt Consolidates New York Central Railroad - Creates First Giant Railroad System
Cornelius Vanderbilt · New York Central Railroad · Hudson River Railroad · Harlem Railroad
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