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Plaintiffs seeking to revive antitrust case against Hollywood Foreign Press Association face tough questions from US appellate judges

By Michael Acton
  • 16 Feb 2022 15:50
  • 16 Feb 2022 15:50
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s membership policies were under the microscope of US appeals court judges today, as a lawyer for the plaintiffs urged them to revive an antitrust lawsuit accusing the organization of illegally monopolizing the entertainment reporting market.
The three-judge panel asked what made the HFPA different from

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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