FTC's Kroger-Albertsons Suit Premised on 'Fanciful' Definition of Grocery Market, Dissenting States Say
The Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit seeking to block the $24.6 billion merger presumes "that consumers are walled off from any other sources for groceries and have no alternative but to buy all their needs from either Kroger or Albertsons alone," according to an amicus brief filed Friday by Alabama, Georgia, Iowa and Ohio.
U.S. Supreme Court Won't Rescue Biden Administration's Revised Title IX Rules in Challenged States
"The lower courts concluded otherwise because the new definition of sex discrimination is intertwined with and affects many other provisions of the new rule," the majority wrote. "Those courts therefore concluded, at least at this preliminary stage, that the allegedly unlawful provisions are not readily severable from the remaining provisions."