Reasons for Favoring the FTC over Facebook In our antitrust survey, we presented participants with a summary of the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Facebook. The lawsuit centers on allegations of unfair competition, specifically surrounding Facebook’s acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram. We asked survey respondents questions about the strength of the FTC’s case, who […]
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Reasons for Favoring the DOJ over Google In our survey regarding antitrust issues, we presented participants with a summary of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust lawsuit against Google. The lawsuit centers around Google’s strategy of paying device manufacturers and browser companies to be the default search engine on devices and browsers. We asked survey […]
Read moreReasons for Favoring Google over the DOJ
Reasons for Favoring Google over the DOJ In our antitrust survey, we presented participants with a summary of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust lawsuit against Google. The lawsuit centers on Google’s agreements with internet browser companies (e.g., Firefox) and mobile device manufacturers (e.g. Apple, Samsung, LG) to make Google their default search engine. We […]
Read moreReasons for Favoring Facebook over the FTC
Reasons for Favoring Facebook over the FTC In our antitrust survey, we presented participants with a summary of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) case against Facebook. This lawsuit centers on allegations of unfair competition, specifically surrounding Facebook’s acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram. We asked survey respondents questions about the strength of the FTC’s case, who […]
Read moreIntroduction to Our Research on Antitrust Cases
Introduction to Our Research on Antitrust Cases Why Now? We conducted a national survey on antitrust cases focusing on the recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) cases against Facebook and Google, respectively. Though those cases were our focus, the reasons for conducting the survey goes beyond our interest in these lawsuits. Given […]
Read moreFTC v. Facebook: Survey Results
FTC v. Facebook: Survey Results Background The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against Facebook to prevent it from “illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct.” The government uses antitrust regulations to promote free and fair competition and to protect consumers from anticompetitive business activities. At the […]
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DOJ v. Google: Survey Results Background The Department of Justice (DOJ) is pursuing an antitrust lawsuit against Google for “unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising markets and to remedy the competitive harms.” Former Attorney General Barr stated that Google’s monopoly harms “users, advertisers, and small businesses in […]
Read moreBiases Against the San Francisco Bay Area
Biases against the San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley Numerous large verdicts against sizable technology companies have been awarded in venues with very small populations, and a number of those large verdicts were against companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Many of those verdicts were in the Eastern District of Texas, which […]
Read moreComfort Levels for Everyday Activities During the Pandemic
Comfort Levels for Everyday Activities During the Pandemic Last fall, we reported the results of our survey on attitudes related to the coronavirus pandemic from 295 jury-eligible California residents. One aspect of the survey examined how comfortable people were with doing some everyday activities during the pandemic. In our most recent nationwide survey on antitrust […]
Read morePublic Opinions of Companies that Are Frequent Targets of Unfair or Anticompetitive Behavior Claims
Public Opinions of Companies that Are Frequent Targets of Unfair or Anticompetitive Behavior Claims About a third of our cases involve large companies – sometimes we’re working with them, sometimes against them. Many of these companies are targets of unfair or anticompetitive behavior claims. In pretrial research on those cases, we’ve found that mock jurors […]
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