{"id":118692,"date":"2019-11-01T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=118692"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:38:59","slug":"sheldon-adelson-wants-las-vegas-sun-antitrust-lawsuit-tossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/sheldon-adelson-wants-las-vegas-sun-antitrust-lawsuit-tossed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheldon Adelson Wants \u2018Hypocritical\u2019 Las Vegas Sun Antitrust Lawsuit Tossed"},"content":{"rendered":"

LVS billionaire and owner of the Las Vegas-Review Journal<\/em> (LVRJ) Sheldon Adelson has entered a motion to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit<\/a> filed in September by The Las Vegas Sun<\/em>, which accuses him of orchestrating a \u201ccalculated scheme\u201d to monopolize the Las Vegas newspaper industry.<\/p>\n

\"Sheldon
Sheldon Adelson complained the Las Vegas Sun<\/em> lawsuit was \u201cfilled with ad hominem attacks\u201d and \u201cgratuitous references\u201d to his conservative views. (Image: Tyrone Siu\/Corbis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 86-year-old recently returned to work after receiving treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma and was present at LVS\u2019s earnings call of last week for the first time in months.<\/p>\n

The Las Vegas Sun<\/em> suit claims that Adelson — after purchasing LVRJ<\/em> anonymously in 2015 — set out to \u201cstrangle the sole remaining competitor and dissenting voice\u201d in the Las Vegas newspaper industry in order to achieve a \u201c100 percent monopoly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adelson, in his motion to dismiss, called the suit \u201cepic in its hypocrisy\u201d and \u201cfilled \u2026 with ad hominem attacks and gratuitous references to defendants\u2019 conservative views in the apparent hope this Court will rule on politics, not the merits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where The Sun Don\u2019t Shine<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The source of the dispute is the LVRJ<\/em>\u2019s attempt to extricate itself from a 50-year joint-operating agreement (JOA) with The Sun<\/em>, which has been effective since 1989.<\/p>\n

JOAs were authorized by the federal Newspaper Preservation Act, a Nixon-era law that allows certain antitrust exemptions for newspapers operating in the same market area. These include permitting them to combine production, marketing, distribution, and sales, provided they remained competitive and editorially independent of one another.<\/p>\n

But Adelson recently sued to get out of the agreement, claiming breach of contract. The Sun<\/em> argues this was because he knows it is operationally and economically dependent on LVRJ,<\/em> and that dissolving the agreement would kill the paper, thus eliminating the competition and silencing his critics.<\/p>\n

Defendant Sheldon Adelson has been a long-time enemy of the First Amendment and the press,\u201d The Sun<\/em>\u2019s lawsuit alleges. \u201cFor decades, he has filed and prosecuted<\/a> one frivolous and ultimately unsuccessful defamation case after another. His object has always been clear: chill free speech and silence those that would speak out against him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Defies Common Sense\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Sun<\/em> claims the JOA was ratified by the Department of Justice. But Adelson\u2019s motion to dismiss claims this was not the case, and thus, The Sun<\/em> is trying to \u201cdeceive the court into using its powers of compulsion to convert the unenforceable 2005 JOA<\/em> into a permanent and inescapable obligation.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also pours scorn on the idea that The Sun<\/em>\u2019s demise would result in a monopoly for LVRJ.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sun claims actual and threatened monopolization of an artificially-defined market that includes only the joint Review-Journal\/Sun newspaper and absolutely no other media products of any type,\u201d the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sun\u2019s single-product-market definition defies common sense by pretending Nevadans live in a world where television, radio, the internet, and news apps on smartphones and other mobile devices do not compete with newspapers,\u201d it concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LVS billionaire and owner of the Las Vegas-Review Journal (LVRJ) Sheldon Adelson has entered a motion to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed in September by The Las Vegas Sun, which accuses him of orchestrating a \u201ccalculated scheme\u201d to monopolize the Las Vegas newspaper industry. 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