Professor Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, wrote and filed a brief on behalf of himself and other academics in United States v. American Airlines Group, a Justice Department antitrust challenge pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

The case involved a remarkable tie-up between two air carriers in the Northeast, where air travel markets were already quite congested, and on the government’s allegations it would have severely injured competition there. Upon request from the Justice Department and State Attorneys General, Professor Sagers drafted the brief, which garnered support from 25 professors specializing in law, business, and economics from esteemed institutions such as Stanford, NYU, George Washington, USC, UC Irvine, among others.