Spirit Airlines was supposed to be the competitor antitrust law saved. Instead, it may become the cautionary tale antitrust law cannot quite avoid. The carrier’s disappearance has transformed the JetBlue-Spirit merger litigation from an ordinary postmortem into a test case for how antitrust law should treat distressed challengers in concentrated network industries. Protecting Competition, Minus the Competitor The starting point is Judge William …
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