The same is true of the other side of the interface, the patient’s medical condition, with genetics and MRIs and hosts of other new tests and knowledge crowding around. [read post]

Notwithstanding lower overall activity, 2022 witnessed a number of megadeal announcements, including Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware, Adobe’s $20 billion purchase of Figma, Prologis’s $26 billion acquisition of Duke Realty, Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard and Kroger’s $24.6 billion purchase of Albertsons. [read post]

 Houle provides an example of a credit card collection case in which the defendant had countered the bank’s motion for summary judgment with an affidavit of his own, but it did him no good because both the trial court and the court of appeals denied the counter-affidavit the effect of creating a fact issue precluding summary judgment.Controverting Summary Judgment Affidavit of Defendant Robert Houledisputing authenticity of records, legitimacy of interest rate, and correctness of… [read post]

  Justice Kennard:  When one goes to the information put before voters…I quote from the Attorney General "new proposed law requires the satisfaction of class action procedure"…Also, we have in the [ballot pamphlet material] which told the voters "a yes vote means a person pursuing UCL would have to meet the requirement of class action. [read post]

Antitrust Matters provides engaging and timely conversations about competition policy in the digital age. [read post]