Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act of 2021" in English language version.
The Senate should move forward a pending bipartisan bill to allow state antitrust enforcers to bring lawsuits in their own backyards without seeing them folded into multidistrict litigation in another state, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has told key senators. Khan, a vocal critic of tech sector consolidation who has advocated for tougher antitrust enforcement at the federal and state levels, wrote to leaders of both parties on the Judiciary Committee to urge passage of the State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act.
Klobuchar, chair of the Senate Judiciary's antitrust panel, and Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, the lead sponsor on the House side, started pushing harder to move the bill when Google's case came up before the JPML. Known as the State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act, the bill would add a few words and drop a subsection in the multidistrict litigation statute that allows consolidation of suits so that states get the same exemption as federal enforcers from the panel's authority to move cases.
