Amicus Brief

January 10, 2025 — The American Economic Liberties Project filed an amicus brief this week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the ongoing case, Ryan, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, defending the Federal Trade Commission’s Noncompete Clause rule and challenging the district court’s sweeping use of universal vacatur to resolve challenges to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) — which causes enforcement of the rule to be enjoined nationally.

January 9, 2025 — The American Economic Liberties Project filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit supporting Epic Games, in its civil antitrust case against Google.

August 7, 2023 — The American Economic Liberties Project today filed an amicus brief supporting class certification in Mary Carr v. Google LLC, an antitrust lawsuit alleging that Google used a series of anticompetitive tactics to make Google Play Store a monopoly, leading to supra-competitive prices for consumers buying apps and in-app content for their Android devices.

August 2, 2023 — The American Economic Liberties Project filed an amicus brief asking the Fifth Circuit to uphold the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order requiring Illumina to divest its majority ownership of cancer diagnostic test maker GRAIL.

November 8, 2022 — The American Economic Liberties Project filed an amicus brief in support of the U.S. Department of Justice’s appeal of the district court decision to allow U.S. Sugar Corporations’ $350 million acquisition of rival Imperial Sugar Company. The brief argues that that the acquisition cannot be sustained under the incipiency standard created by Section 7 of the Clayton Act, in both the regional and national markets proposed by the parties.