Category: Business
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Shifting the Battlefield: Exxon’s Attempt to Evade Legal Accountability
By Rida Mian — On Earth Day 2021, the City of New York filed suit against the Exxon Mobil Corporation, ExxonMobil Oil Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Shell Oil Company, BP P.L.C, BP America Inc. and the American Petroleum Institute…
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The Flight Back to the Sherman Act: How Antitrust’s Shift Towards Consumer Welfare Has Overly Consolidated the U.S. Airline Industry
Tanner McNamara — The United States has long grappled with corporate concentration, from the Gilded Age monopolies of Rockefeller and Vanderbilt to today’s airline industry. However, not all monopolies surface into a market in the same manner, with law and…
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Antitrust Challenges in the CAR-T Patent Landscape: Are Patent Thickets a Barrier to Innovation and Access?
By Liam Boyle – In 2012, six-year-old Emily Whitehead failed chemotherapy treatments after relapsing in her battle against acute lymphoblastic leukemia. While doctors told her family that there was nothing left that could be done, they refused to accept this…
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Moore v United States: the Tax Debate That Missed the Mark
By Rida Mian — The famous words “no taxation without representation” echo in the minds of every student of American history; the phrase encapsulates the core American values of democratic governance and individual liberty. These values remain vital to our…
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Out of Bounds: Messy Market Players in NASL v. U.S. Soccer’s Antitrust Match
By Liam Boyle — Soccer might be called the beautiful game, but off the field, the financial and legal game surrounding it is anything except beautiful. Over the past decade, fans have become increasingly dissatisfied with how regulatory and financial…
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FTO Fallout: The Corporate Risks of Labeling Mexican Cartels as Terrorists
By Daniel Zayas — In February 2025, the war on drugs that the United States has prosecuted since the Nixon administration reached a new degree of fervor with the designation of several Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).…
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Starlink Spectrum Wars: Examining the FCC’s Role in Regulating the New Space Age
By Hriday Unadkat – January 27, 1967, was a momentous day in Washington, London, and Moscow. Just ten years after the first-ever satellite, the Sputnik spacecraft, was launched into orbit, delegates from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the…
