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Competition

  • June 18, 2025

    Nippon, US Steel Officially Close Deal, Backed By 5 Law Firms

    Nippon Steel has officially closed its purchase of U.S. Steel, the companies announced Wednesday, forming a global steelmaking partnership backed by $11 billion in planned U.S. investments and a national security agreement with the federal government.

  • June 18, 2025

    PE Firm's £570M Buy Of Tech Biz Clears US Antitrust Check

    U.S. private equity firm TA Associates said Wednesday that the U.S. antitrust authorities have not objected to its approximately £570 million ($756 million) cash acquisition of British tech businesses FD Technologies PLC.

  • June 17, 2025

    La. Law Will Make Tesla Sales Less Onerous, Justices Told

    Louisiana regulators are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will hold off on considering their request to take up a Tesla-brought case targeting the state's ban on direct sales by automakers, saying a new law is about to change things and the justices should wait until it takes effect.

  • June 17, 2025

    Judge Warns No 'Real Winner' If NASCAR Case Goes To Trial

    A North Carolina federal judge on Tuesday joined a chorus of jurists urging NASCAR and two of its teams to seek a resolution of their competing antitrust claims outside court, cautioning that neither side will emerge victorious if the case makes it to trial in December.

  • June 17, 2025

    Agri Beef, Indiana Packers Strike $2.5M Deal In Wage-Fix Suit

    Agri Beef, the Indiana Packers Corporation and a proposed class of workers at red meat processing plants have reached settlements totaling $2.5 million in a suit alleging a nationwide conspiracy to suppress wages.

  • June 17, 2025

    Org. Urges 9th Circ. To OK NFL Sunday Ticket Verdict Dismissal

    A legal foundation focused on promoting free enterprise principles is offering support to the NFL as the league defends a California federal judge's dismissal of a jury's $4.7 billion Sunday Ticket price-fixing award, arguing Tuesday the district court was right to correct a "gatekeeping failure" in expert testimony.

  • June 17, 2025

    David Protein Avoids Court Ordered Ingredient Sale For Now

    A New York federal court has refused to issue an early order requiring David Protein to supply a fat replacement ingredient to several low-calorie food producers after the protein bar-maker purchased the ingredient's only manufacturer.

  • June 17, 2025

    Senate Confirms Trump's FCC Nominee, Giving GOP Majority

    The U.S. Senate confirmed Olivia Trusty to the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, providing Republicans a 2-1 majority on the telecom regulatory body five months after President Donald Trump named her for the seat.

  • June 17, 2025

    Ill. Toy Makers Seek Justices' Early Review Of Trump Tariff Suit

    Illinois-based toy makers challenging President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs on Tuesday requested the U.S. Supreme Court consider their case before it is reviewed by the D.C. Circuit, arguing a stay to an injunction is allowing duty collections to continue and is damaging the companies.

  • June 17, 2025

    Four More Women Appeal NIL Deal Over Title IX Objections

    Four additional former and current women college athletes, including one of the most decorated lacrosse players of all time, have filed notice of their intent to appeal the NCAA's $2.78 billion name, image and likeness compensation settlement to the Ninth Circuit, objecting to the deal's disproportionately low allocation of money to women.

  • June 17, 2025

    Firms Fight To Rep End Users In PVC Pipe Antitrust Row

    Several law firms are duking it out for a lead counsel appointment representing a new class of end-user plaintiffs in consolidated litigation accusing PVC pipe companies of using a commodity pricing service to exchange information and illegally fix prices, with Pearson Warshaw LLP, Kirby McInerney LLP, Fegan Scott LLC and Levin Sedran & Berman LLP making bids.

  • June 17, 2025

    3rd Circ. To Review AI Ruling In Fight Over Westlaw Data

    The Third Circuit on Tuesday granted an interlocutory appeal from tech startup Ross Intelligence, which is challenging a ruling from a Delaware federal court that concluded it infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool powered by artificial intelligence.

  • June 17, 2025

    Google Opposes Advertisers' Ad Tech Class Cert Bid

    Google told a New York federal court that the advertiser seeking to represent a class of more than 2 million members in multidistrict litigation accusing the tech giant of monopolizing key digital ad technology spent less than $500 on Google Ads during the class period.

  • June 17, 2025

    Bunge Gets Last-Needed Approvals For $18B Viterra Deal

    Grain and seed supplier Bunge Ltd. announced that it has cleared the last antitrust regulatory hurdle to close its $18 billion acquisition of global grain trader Viterra Ltd.

  • June 17, 2025

    Meta Can't Nix FTC's Lead Econ Expert From Antitrust Trial

    A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday refused to exclude testimony by the Federal Trade Commission's lead economics expert during an antitrust trial over Meta's acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram, finding Meta already had the chance to question if he was biased and that it wouldn't improperly influence a jury since it's a bench trial.

  • June 17, 2025

    Burford Blasts Interference Claim In Chicken Price-Fix Case

    The Illinois federal judge handling consolidated price-fixing litigation against the nation's largest chicken producers should throw out the settlement interference counterclaim Tyson lodged alongside its answer in the case because it is no more than a speculation-based "fishing expedition," litigation funder Burford Capital argued.

  • June 17, 2025

    DOJ Clears $1.8B Safran-RTX Aerospace Deal With Divestiture

    French aerospace company Safran will have to divest its North American actuation business to move forward with its $1.8 billion acquisition of Collins Aerospace's flight control unit from RTX, U.S. and British antitrust regulators announced Tuesday.

  • June 17, 2025

    Medical AI Co. Calls Rival's Suit A Ploy To Kill Competition

    A Canadian artificial intelligence company focusing on medical information has asked a Massachusetts federal judge to toss out a recent trade secrets lawsuit, saying the complaint is an attempt to thwart competition based solely on speculation.

  • June 17, 2025

    Former Antitrust Enforcers Launching New Firm

    Former enforcers from the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice launched a new law firm on Tuesday, Simonsen Sussman LLP, to bring cases on behalf of entrepreneurs, small businesses, workers and other victims of anticompetitive practices.

  • June 17, 2025

    Aviva Gets Green Light For £3.7B Direct Line Acquisition

    Aviva said Tuesday that it has passed all the regulatory hurdles for its £3.7 billion ($5 billion) cash and stock acquisition of rival insurer Direct Line, bringing it one step closer to creating a motor and home insurance giant in Britain.

  • June 16, 2025

    FCC Defends Prison Phone Rate Caps At 1st Circ.

    The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to push the deadline for its prison phone rate caps back by one year for a company that has argued it needs more time, but it's still standing by the need for those caps at the First Circuit.

  • June 16, 2025

    4th Circ. Upholds Revival Of Naval Engineers' No-Poach Case

    The Fourth Circuit has kept its revival of a no-poach wage-fixing case against some of the nation's biggest warship makers intact, rejecting a petition to rehear the case en banc after a three-judge panel kicked it back to district court last month.

  • June 16, 2025

    VoIP Providers Want FCC To Preempt Calif. 'Overreach'

    Internet voice call providers are asking the Federal Communications Commission to preempt California from enforcing new rules that the providers consider "overreach" in regulating the businesses.

  • June 16, 2025

    Apple Can't Duck Renewed ICloud Monopoly Suit

    A California federal judge refused Monday to dismiss a proposed class action accusing Apple of maintaining a monopoly by keeping "full-service" cloud storage functionality limited to its own iCloud service while barring third-party cloud storage from accessing all files on iPhones and iPads.

  • June 16, 2025

    Ohio Tells 6th Circ. PBM Case Doesn't Target Federal Work

    Ohio urged the Sixth Circuit to send its case accusing Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics of driving up prescription drug prices through rebate schemes back to state court, arguing the case doesn't target any federal government work by the pharmacy benefit managers.

Expert Analysis

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    Playing Beach Volleyball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My commitment to beach volleyball has become integral to my performance as an attorney, with the sport continually reminding me that teamwork, perseverance, professionalism and stress management are essential to both undertakings, says Amy Drushal at Trenam.

  • US Soccer Win Shows Value Of Defining 'Relevant Market'

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    Despite U.S. Soccer's successful defense against North American Soccer League's antitrust allegations, sports leagues should continue to be mindful of risks posed by hierarchical structures since the New York federal judge in that suit found a triable issue of fact on the relevant markets issue, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • If Elphaba Had Signed A Restrictive Covenant In 'Wicked'

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    Following the recent big-screen release of "Wicked," employers should consider how the tale might have ended if the Wizard of Oz had made Elphaba sign a restrictive covenant agreement, which would have placed clear limitations on her ability to challenge his regime, says Emily Wajert at Sidley.

  • Opinion

    2 Errors Limit The Potential Influence Of AI Fair Use Case

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    The recent opinion in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence may have little predictive value for artificial intelligence litigation, because the decision failed to engage with an important line of case law on intermediate copying, and misapplied the concepts of commercial substitution and superseding use, says Brandon Butler at Jaszi Butler PLLC.

  • How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic

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    The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.

  • Opinion

    DOJ's HPE-Juniper Challenge Is Not Rooted In Law

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    Legal precedents that date back as far as 1990 demonstrate that the U.S. Department of Justice's recent challenge to the proposed $14 billion merger between Hewlett Packard and Juniper is misplaced because no evidence of collusion or coordinated conduct exists, says Thomas Stratmann at George Mason University.

  • How Citizen Petitions Have Affected Drug Competition

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    In light of recent citizen petitions and proposed legislation regulating such petitions, Omar Robles at Managing Health analyzes the statistics of the extent to which citizen petitions have been filed, and to what extent they have delayed competition in prescription pharmaceuticals.

  • 5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships

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    Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.

  • BlackRock Suit Highlights Antitrust Risks Of ESG

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    In Texas v. BlackRock, pending in Texas federal court, 13 state attorneys general are suing large institutional investors in the coal business, underscoring key reasons companies may want to alter their approach to developing and implementing policies related to environmental, social, and governance factors, especially if coordination with competitors is involved, say attorneys at Manatt.

  • What Reuters Ruling Means For AI Fair Use And Copyright

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    A Delaware federal court's recent decision in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence is not likely to have lasting effect in view of the avalanche of artificial intelligence decisions to come, but the court made two points that will resonate with copyright owners who are disputing technology companies' unlicensed use of copyright-protected materials to train generative AI models, says David Ben-Meir at Ben-Meir Law Group.

  • How The AI Antitrust Landscape Might Evolve Under Trump

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    The Trump administration's early actions around artificial intelligence and antitrust policy, along with statements from competition regulators, suggest that the AI competition landscape may see reduced scrutiny around acquisitions, but not an entirely hands-off enforcement approach, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.

  • Series

    Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.

  • Opinion

    Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence

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    Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises

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    “No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.

  • Antitrust In Retail: Rude Awakening For FTC In Tempur Sealy

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    A Texas federal court's recent denial of a Federal Trade Commision order to stop a giant mattress merger because of lack of evidence on market segments shows that such definitions are only a viable path for regulating vertical mergers if antitrust agencies provide adequate documentation, says David Kully at Holland & Knight.

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