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 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 […]
Read moreUpcoming Antitrust Research
We are drafting a 1,000 respondent national survey on antitrust issues focusing on the recent Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice cases against Facebook and Google. However, our interest goes beyond these lawsuits. Given the cataclysmic events of 2020, we want to get a better understanding of the historical moment we’re now in and be […]
Read moreNotes on the Waymo v. Uber Jury Selection
Waymo v. Uber settled, but not before jury selection and four days of evidence. We’re lucky in the Bay Area to have a series of high-profile, high-stakes, high-tech cases coursing through our courts: the multiple trials of Apple v. Samsung, Oracle v. Google, and now, Waymo v. Uber.
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