Joshua Macey on Antitrust in Utilities
ICLE Academic Affiliate Joshua Macey was quoted in a Utility Dive article on the U.S. solicitor general’s recommendation that the U.S. Supreme Court deny an appeal challenging a lower court ruling allowing an antitrust lawsuit against Duke Energy:
In the last decade or so, the Department of Justice and private plaintiffs have been reluctant to use antitrust laws to challenge utilities, but that could change based on Sauer’s brief, according to Joshua Macey, a Yale Law School associate professor.
“At the very least, this suggests that the Trump Solicitor General’s Office thinks that antitrust should be a viable tool in electricity markets, and it may indicate that the administration is concerned with anticompetitive conduct,” Macey said in an interview Thursday.
Read the full piece here.