Antitrust & Competition Research Examples
Real Antitrust & Competition research prompts, run end to end in Midpage — each with the full exchange, linked authorities, and citator treatment.
Two-Sided Markets After Amex
How courts decide whether a platform is a two-sided transaction market under Ohio v. American Express — and where the framework has traveled outside payment networks, from airline booking systems to real estate listing networks, ride-hailing, and law-school admissions platforms.
Antitrust Standing Under Clayton Act § 4
A motion-stage brief section arguing plaintiff lacks antitrust standing under Clayton Act § 4 — Brunswick's antitrust-injury threshold, the Associated General Contractors remoteness factors, and the Second Circuit's modern efficient-enforcer application in Laydon v. Rabobank.
Puffery at the Motion-to-Dismiss Stage
The statement types courts dismiss as non-actionable puffery as a matter of law — unmodified superlatives, subjective comparatives without a defined metric, and generic compliance assurances — and the specific, measurable claims that survive, from Pizza Hut v. Papa John's forward.
Algorithmic Pricing & Section 1
Where courts draw the line between pooling non-public competitor data through a shared pricing algorithm (RealPage, Yardi) and independently licensing the same software (Gibson v. Cendyn, Cornish-Adebiyi) for Section 1 concerted action.
FTC Endorsement Guides
What the 2023 revision of 16 C.F.R. Part 255 actually requires — when a material connection must be disclosed, what "clear and conspicuous" means on social media, and who bears liability among advertisers, influencers, and intermediaries.
Robinson-Patman Enforcement
The FTC's revival of Robinson-Patman enforcement — the Southern Glazer's and PepsiCo suits — and the doctrinal pressure points for tiered wholesale pricing: Morton Salt's functional-availability inference of injury versus Volvo Trucks' competing-purchaser requirement, with the § 2(b) defenses to build in advance.