DOJ Antitrust Cop Leaves Behind Record Number of Monopoly Cases

The US government now has more pending cases targeting alleged monopolies than at any time since the trust-busting era of the early 1900s, shortly after the antitrust laws were first passed.

In the past two years, the Justice Department under President Joe Biden has sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Apple Inc., Live Nation Entertainment Inc.’s Ticketmaster and Visa Inc. for illegally dominating markets. That’s in addition to the monopolization suit against Google over search filed at the end of the first Trump administration.

“Enforcement is alive and well,” said Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter, who ...