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April 17, 2024By Peter Dourvetakis
The Sherman Antitrust exemption for Major League Baseball (MLB) was born over 100 years ago. Over the years, Congress has passed some legislation that allows the players to sue the league under federal antitrust law. However, as it stands today, Major League Baseball still enjoys the exemption from the Sherman Antitrust Act, which allows […]
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March 29, 2024By Jose Rodriguez-Lage
On July 28, 2022, JetBlue Airways Corporation (“JetBlue”), the sixth largest airline in the United States, announced that it had executed a final merger agreement with Spirit Airlines, Inc. (“Spirit”), the seventh largest domestic carrier, pursuant to which JetBlue would pay $3.8 billion to acquire Spirit.[i] Both airlines are low-cost carriers, with Spirit being […]
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November 17, 2023By Jose Rodriguez-Lage
In early 2021, American Airlines Group Inc. (“American Airlines”) and JetBlue Airways Corporation (“JetBlue”) launched a strategic partnership known as the Northeast Alliance (the “Alliance”). Under the Alliance, “the airlines coordinated their schedules, swapped slots and gates, and had frequent flyer reciprocity” on flights to and from Boston, New York City, and Newark.[i] The […]
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