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In an article for Law360, Partner Amy Gallegos and Associate Isabel Farhi analyze the US Supreme Court’s recent rulings concerning the intersection of the First Amendment and online platforms. They discuss the Court’s fact-specific approach in three cases that examine this intersection from different perspectives, evaluating laws regulating online platform content moderation, government communications with platforms about their content moderation, and government officials’ use of social media.

Partners Brandon Fox, Sati Harutyunyan, and Amy Gallegos were recognized as 2024 California Lawyers of the Year by the Daily Journal. The annual list highlights “the best lawyers and legal work in California over the past year.”

A Jenner & Block trial team was named Litigator of the Week Runners-Up by The American Lawyer for their work representing Kraft Heinz Co., Kellogg Co., General Mills Inc., and Nestle USA Inc. in antitrust litigation against the nation’s largest egg producers and two industry groups. The team secured $17.7 million in damages and the plaintiffs are entitled to have that amount trebled.

An Illinois federal jury awarded clients Kraft Heinz Co., Kellogg Co., General Mills Inc., and Nestle USA Inc. $17.7 million for the damages they suffered from the overcharges they paid due to a conspiracy to inflate the prices of eggs by the nation’s largest egg producers and two industry groups. The plaintiffs are entitled to have the $17.7 million trebled. 

After a five-week trial, a federal jury in Illinois found that two of the largest egg producers in the nation, Cal-Maine Food and Rose Acre Farms, and two egg trade groups, United Egg Producers and United States Egg Marketers, are liable for conspiring to inflate the prices of eggs from the late 1990s through at least 2008.

Two weeks ago, on March 24, as discussed in our prior client alert, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued guidance to businesses contemplating collaborating with competitors when responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.  As part of that guidance, DOJ and FTC announced that they would expedite the evaluation of such competitor collaborations under the DOJ’s Business Review Process and the FTC’s Advisory Opinion Process and aim to have those evaluations, which ca

On March 24, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released guidance on collaborations between competitors when responding to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.  Though much of the specific discussion is related to collaborations in the healthcare space, the guidance overall does not read so narrowly.  Any organization which is in a position to assist in providing “Americans with products or services that might not be available otherwise” is covered by the newly-re

From securing a definitive victory in a dispute over the rights to John Steinbeck’s iconic works to representing FOX in the launch of its online sports betting platform, Jenner & Block’s Content, Media & Entertainment (CME) Practice achieved success in numerous high-profile, complex matters in 2019.  Law360 noted those and other accomplishments in a profile recognizing the group as a Practice Group of the Year in the Media & Entertainment category.

The firm’s Content, Media and Entertainment (CME) Practice secured victories and successes in several significant matters, culminating in its recognition as Practice Group of the Year in the categories of Media & Entertainment and Sports & Betting.  The honor recognizes law firms behind what Law360 calls the “litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.”