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  • April 22, 2025

    Instagram Founder Says Meta 'Starved' Co. After Acquisition

    During testimony in the Federal Trade Commission's monopoly case against Meta on Tuesday, the founder of Instagram said his company was "starved" after being acquired by Facebook as Mark Zuckerberg grappled with "a lot of emotion" over Instagram siphoning users away from its parent company's flagship platform.

  • April 22, 2025

    Puerto Rico Soccer Org. Loses Bid To Soften Sanctions

    A Puerto Rico judge on Friday declined to reconsider the disqualification of an attorney, and sanctions imposed for misusing artificial intelligence to fight the disqualification bid, in a lawsuit that accuses FIFA of antitrust violations.

  • April 22, 2025

    11th Circ. Not Likely To Snuff Smoke Shop's $1.1M Trial Loss

    The Eleventh Circuit signaled Tuesday that it was likely to uphold a $1.1 million verdict entered against a Georgia-based tobacco importer for selling counterfeit rolling papers, throwing cold water on the importer's claims that the verdict constituted a windfall that was prohibited in a 2023 trial.

  • April 22, 2025

    Michigan Panel Remands Pot Cos.' Secret Meetings Suit

    A suit challenging a Michigan city's cannabis licensing program should get a new airing at trial court, a state appellate court ruled Monday, saying the lower court erred by finding that the cannabis selection committee was not a "public body" subject to the state's Open Meetings Act.

  • April 22, 2025

    DOJ Wants Time During 9th Circ. Vegas Room Rate Arguments

    The U.S. Department of Justice has asked to participate in the Ninth Circuit argument for an appeal from Las Vegas casino-hotel guests accusing the operators of using software to inflate room rates, the first algorithmic price-fixing case to reach an appeals court.

  • April 22, 2025

    DOJ Says Google Ad Tech Win Supports Apple Antitrust Case

    The U.S. Department of Justice told a New Jersey federal court its recent win against Google in the ad tech monopolization case supports allowing claims that Apple monopolizes smartphone markets to proceed.

  • April 22, 2025

    Anticipating NIL Deal, NCAA Changes Athlete Pay Rules

    The NCAA has officially adopted policy changes that will allow college athletes to be paid, to go into effect when the $2.78 billion antitrust settlement between schools and athletes receives final court approval.

  • April 21, 2025

    DOJ Pushes Chrome Sale To Solve Google Monopoly

    The U.S. Department of Justice sought to shape the future of online search and artificial intelligence chatbots Monday with opening arguments pushing a D.C. federal judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser and to "disrupt" the billions paid for default search engine status on iPhones, Firefox and more.

  • April 21, 2025

    Verizon Fights Telecom Group's Claims Against Frontier Deal

    Verizon is telling the Federal Communications Commission not to listen to a telecommunications network industry group's call to tie stronger internet protocol interconnection regulations to Verizon's $20 billion acquisition of Frontier, arguing critics haven't identified any transaction-specific harms stemming from the merger.

  • April 21, 2025

    Academics Say FTC Firings Threaten Fed, Economic Stability

    Law and economics professors have told a D.C. federal court that failing to reinstate the recently fired members of the Federal Trade Commission puts the independence of the Federal Reserve System at risk and threatens to hurt the economy.

  • April 21, 2025

    Houston's NRG Energy Says Miami Cos. Ripped Off Its Name

    A group of Miami-based companies has been accused in Texas federal court of ripping off NRG Energy Inc.'s name.

  • April 21, 2025

    Calif. Homeowners Say Insurers Colluded To Limit Coverage

    California property owners affected by the Los Angeles wildfires accused over 300 insurers of conspiring to eliminate competition in the marketplace, forcing consumers to instead obtain fire insurance from the state's insurer of last resort, according to two lawsuits filed in state court.

  • April 21, 2025

    DOJ Defends Wage-Fixing Jury Win From Mistrial Bid

    The U.S. Department of Justice is defending a key wage-fixing and fraud conviction of a Nevada nursing executive, hitting back at the executive's claims that it used privileged documents and communications to sway the jury during the three-week trial.

  • April 21, 2025

    DOJ's Google Ad Litigation Lead Joins BakerHostetler

    A 10-year Justice Department veteran, who helped supervise the government's case alleging Google's advertising practices create an unfair monopoly, has left the agency to join BakerHostetler, the firm announced Monday.

  • April 21, 2025

    Justices Won't Hear CSX-Norfolk Southern Antitrust Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to review whether CSX waited too long to bring its antitrust case against Norfolk Southern over fees charged by a Virginia switching line they jointly own.

  • April 18, 2025

    Google May See Some Light In The Ad Tech Ruling

    The ruling this week in the U.S. Department of Justice's ad tech monopolization case against Google was a major victory but not a total win for the government, and it raises questions about what the fix should be, especially with a trial looming over remedies in a separate case over search.

  • April 18, 2025

    9th Circ. Won't Rethink Nixed Zillow, NAR Antitrust Case

    The Ninth Circuit won't be rethinking a panel decision refusing to revive a defunct brokerage platform's case accusing Zillow and the National Association of Realtors of anticompetitively relegating its listings from Zillow's main page.

  • April 18, 2025

    Democratic AGs Say Trump Illegally Fired FTC Commissioners

    Attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief Friday in D.C. federal court backing two fired Democratic Federal Trade Commission members, writing that President Donald Trump's actions violate federal law prohibiting their removal except for cause. 

  • April 18, 2025

    Tribal 'Window' For New Spectrum Licenses Defended At FCC

    A pair of public interest groups asked Democrats on the Federal Communications Commission to support a tribal "window" allowing Native American bidders a chance to reserve licenses in a commercial spectrum band that's poised for FCC auction.

  • April 18, 2025

    FTC's Southern Glazer's Pricing Case Preserved

    A California federal judge refused to toss the Federal Trade Commission's price discrimination lawsuit against Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits LLC, concluding the alcohol distribution giant moves liquor around enough to trigger interstate commerce and that the FTC has adequately alleged unfair treatment of mom-and-pop stores relative to big box retailers.

  • April 18, 2025

    Judge Sides With Wash. In NY Distillery's Sales Reg Challenge

    A federal judge has rejected a New York whiskey maker's challenge to a Washington rule that distilleries must have a physical in-state location to sell to Evergreen State consumers online, saying the regulation isn't discriminatory because it "applies evenhandedly" regardless of the producer's home state.

  • April 18, 2025

    Lilly Blasts Compounders' 'Scattershot' Bid To Reverse FDA

    Eli Lilly urged a Texas federal judge to deny a request from pharmacies that produce copycat doses of its popular weight loss drug to have the court reverse an FDA decision taking the drug off a national shortage list, saying the bid was filled with unreliable "scattershot" arguments.

  • April 18, 2025

    PBMs Press 8th Circ. Bid To Pause FTC Case

    The nation's "Big Three" pharmacy benefit managers are asking the Eighth Circuit to pause the Federal Trade Commission's in-house insulin price-fixing case against them, saying that their constitutional challenge to the commission's administrative proceeding process should be fully heard before the in-house case moves forward.

  • April 18, 2025

    Ohio AG Accuses Mortgage Lender Of Deceiving Borrowers

    Ohio's attorney general has hit United Wholesale Mortgage LLC with a lawsuit in state court accusing the Michigan-based lender of colluding with mortgage brokers to steer loans to UWM.

  • April 18, 2025

    KKR Blasts 'Draconian' DOJ Suit Over Alleged Filing Errors

    In a motion to dismiss a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit that could carry $650 million in penalties, private equity giant KKR accused the government of pursuing "draconian, unconstitutional and unprecedented penalties" over what it called "immaterial ... purported errors" in routine merger filings.

Expert Analysis

  • A Look At FDA's Plans To Establish New OTC Drug Category

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    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recently finalized rule, creating a new over-the-counter pathway for drugs when patients satisfy certain conditions, may be useful for off-patent drugs with established safety records, though switching to OTC comes with additional costs and considerations, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • Chancery May Have Raised Bar For Books, Records Requests

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    The Delaware Court of Chancery recently approved the denial of a books and records demand against Amazon, raising important questions about what evidence and purpose a stockholder is required to show to succeed on such a request, say attorneys at Selendy Gay.

  • FTC Privacy Enforcement Takeaways From 2024

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    In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission distinguished three prominent trends in its privacy-related enforcement actions: geolocation data protections, data minimization practices, and artificial intelligence use and marketing, say Cobun Zweifel-Keegan at IAPP and James Smith at Dechert.

  • Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win

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    Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.

  • Mass Arbitration Procedures After Faulty Live Nation Ruling

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    Despite the Ninth Circuit's flawed reasoning in Heckman v. Live Nation, the exceptional allegations of collusive conduct shouldn't be read to restrict arbitration providers that have adopted good faith procedures to ensure that consumer mass arbitrations can be efficiently resolved on the merits, says Collin Vierra at Eimer Stahl.

  • How DOGE's Bite Can Live Up To Its Bark

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    All signs suggest that the Department of Government Efficiency will be an important part of the new Trump administration, with ample tools at its disposal to effectuate change, particularly with an attentive Republican-controlled Congress, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

  • Small Biz Caught In Corporate Transparency Act Crossfire

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    Despite compliance being put on hold due to a nationwide preliminary injunction, small businesses have been caught in the middle of the legal battle over the Corporate Transparency Act — and confusion over the law's requirements could result in major penalties, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.

  • Forecasting The Future Of The FTC Post-Inauguration

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    The incoming Federal Trade Commission leadership's agenda, which is expected to be in sharp contrast with the Biden administration's enforcement posture, will be noticeable right away in the first few weeks of the Trump administration, say attorneys at Cooley.

  • US-China Deal Considerations Amid Cross-Border Uncertainty

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    With China seemingly set to respond to the incoming U.S. administration's call for strategic decoupling and tariffs, companies on both sides of the Pacific should explore deals and internal changes to mitigate risks and overcome hurdles to their strategic plans, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Series

    Playing Rugby Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My experience playing rugby, including a near-fatal accident, has influenced my legal practice on a professional, organizational and personal level by showing me the importance of maintaining empathy, fostering team empowerment and embracing the art of preparation, says James Gillenwater at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Looking Back At 2024's Noteworthy State AG Litigation

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    State attorneys general across the U.S. took bold steps in 2024 to address unlawful activities by corporations in several areas, including privacy and data security, financial transparency, children's internet safety, and other overall consumer protection claims, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • Nippon, US Steel Face Long Odds On Merger Challenge

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    Following the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' review of Japan's Nippon Steel's proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel, the companies face a formidable uphill battle in challenging the president's exercise of authority to block the deal on national security grounds, say attorneys at Kirkland.

  • Opinion

    No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.

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    A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.

  • Top 10 Noncompete Developments Of 2024

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    Following an eventful year in noncompete law at both state and federal levels, employers can no longer rely on a court's willingness to blue-pencil overbroad agreements and are proceeding at their own peril if they do not thoughtfully review and carefully enforce such agreements, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

  • 5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond

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    In the year to come, e-discovery will be shaped by new and emerging trends, from the adoption of artificial intelligence provisions in protective orders, to the proliferation of emojis as a source of evidence in contemporary litigation, say attorneys at Littler.

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