Antitrust law has been unusually busy in recent years, with several high-profile cases, including in Big Tech. Steve Berman, cofounder and managing director of plaintiff-side firm Hagens Berman Sobol and Shapiro LLP, joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Justin Teresi for a discussion of antitrust developments and trends, as seen from the plaintiffs’ bar. Topics include Berman’s recent litigation around the growth of artificial intelligence-based pricing algorithms in setting hotel rates, as well as work on alleged collusion in agriculture. Berman and Teresi also discuss how plaintiffs’ firms — and private aggregate litigation, like class actions — are working alongside government enforcement efforts.

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The status of the Republicans’ tax-cut bill and the Inflation Reduction Act — with ramifications for hospitals like HCA and Tenet, health insurers like Centene, electric-vehicle makers like Ford and Tesla and solar companies like First Solar — is among the key catalysts BI litigation and policy analysts are watching this week. The team also discussed President Donald Trump’s “Most-Favored Nation” drug-pricing executive order and the status of antitrust trials, specifically DOJ v. Google over search, and FTC v. Meta. We also discussed an FCC inquiry of EchoStar on May 12 asking for comments on whether the agency should reconsider a Sept. 20 decision by its wireless telecommunications bureau to extend the company’s deadlines to complete construction under a series of FCC licenses.

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A May 13 hearing in lawsuits challenging US tariffs, with ramifications for retailers like Nike, automakers like Ford, tech companies like Apple and other sectors are among key catalysts BI litigation and policy analysts are watching in the coming week. The team also discussed a recent op-ed by FCC commissioner Nathan Simington and what it means for potential rulemaking by the agency to cap revenue that local TV stations must pay to affiliated broadcast networks, which could shift revenue to Nexstar and Tegna from ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. This episode also covered an update and our outlook for a pair of crypto bills, on stablecoins and market structure, making their way through Congress, which could affect Coinbase and Robinhood.

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