DOJ Requests Argument Time In States’ D.C. Circuit Appeal Of Meta Antitrust Suit

Mealey's (August 26, 2022, 12:19 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — With oral argument approaching in an appeal by a group of states bringing antitrust claims against Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc.) for its purported monopolization of the personal social network (PSN) market, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), on behalf of the United States, filed a motion Aug. 23 asking the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for 10 minutes of argument time to present its case on refusal-to-deal cases under the Sherman Act and to address errors in a trial court’s dismissal of the states’ complaint....