Competition Archive » December, 2024

Competition - December, 2024

274 articles

• Anti-Laundering Law Is Likely Constitutional, 5th Circ. Rules
• CFPB Sues Rocket Homes Over Alleged Realtor Kickbacks
• Altria Unit Convinces Calif. Court To Ban Retail Elf Bar Sales
• Google Counters DOJ's Proposed Chrome Sale
• NASCAR Can't Pause Jordan Team's Win In Antitrust Case
• House Report Says Gaetz Paid For Sex, Accepted Gifts
• Banks, Not Credit Cos., Can Duck New Ill. Fee Law For Now
• Another Texas Judge Exits X's Advertising Boycott Suit
• Proskauer Beats DQ Bid In NJ Hospital Antitrust Fight
• RealPage Can't Transfer Enforcers' Rent-Fix Case Out Of NC
• High Court Bar's Future: Williams & Connolly's Sarah Harris
• NASCAR Wants Jordan Team's Win Paused For Appeal
• A Look Back At 2024's Major Securities Litigation Moments
• Fed. Circ. Says Teva Inhaler Patents Can't Be In Orange Book
• Hagens Berman Settles Suit Over Effexor Deal Atty Fees
• Startup Defends AI Antitrust Suit Against Nvidia, Microsoft
• Amazon Touted Efforts To Curb Price-Gouging, Shoppers Say
• Medical Records Co. Wants Rival's Antitrust Suit Tossed
• No, Microsoft Isn't Driving DOJ's Google Antitrust Suit: Judge
• The Top Cases Of 2024 In Texas: Year In Review
• The Most Significant Trade Secrets Cases Of 2024
• Judge Found Door Market Won't Change Without Factory Sale
• Biggest Washington Decisions Of 2024
• NC Lawmaker Chosen To Lead House Communications Panel
• Womble Bond Atty Held In Contempt For Unfixed Falsities
• Reviewing 2024's Crucial Patent Law Developments
• Sports Merch Cos. Fight Penn State TM Ban And Fee Bids
• Off The Bench: Jordan's NASCAR Dunk, NIL Attys' Payday
• EU Lays Out Apple's Interoperability Requirements
• Nvidia Gets European Union's Nod For $700M Run:ai Buyout
• Fixing Up Cars Makes Me A Better Lawyer
• UK Finds $35B Software Deal Could Harm Supply Of Chips
• Watershed NCAA, UFC Settlements Highlight 2024's 2nd Half
• FTC Says PBMs Can't Get Preliminary Block In Insulin Case
• Teradata Antitrust, IP Suit Revived Against German Co.
• DOJ Wants Time In Fubo-ESPN Streaming JV Arguments
• Fed, OCC 'Asleep At Wheel' On Merger Policy, Warren Says
• Generic-Drug Cos. Get State AGs' Trial Order Flipped
• CMA Issues Guidance For New Digital Competition Rules
• EU Opens In-Depth Probe Of Liberty's $3.6B MotoGP Deal
• 2024 Has Been A Momentous Year For ESG
• Vanderbilt QB Gets Extra Year Of NCAA Eligibility, Judge Rules
• Casinos Say DOJ Has No 'Starting Point' For Room Rates
• Making The Pitch To Grow Your Company's Legal Team
• The Story Of 2024's Biggest Bank Regs, And Their Fate In 2025
• 4 Trade Secret Pointers From 2024's Key IP Law Developments
• Tencent Removes 2 Epic Directors Following DOJ Scrutiny
• Retailers Lose Bid For Higher Damages Bill In Swipe Fees Trial
• BT Defeats £1.3B Class Action In Setback For Consumers
• RTX Will Pay $34M To End Engineers' No-Poach Class Action
• BiT Global Loses Bid To Block Coinbase Delisting In $1B Suit
• Schools Fighting Price-Fixing Suit Face $685M Damages Claim
• Pilgrim's Pride Gets Chicken Exit OK Under Contested Deal
• Funding Bill Takes In Broadband, Ticketing, Privacy
• State AGs, Generic Cos. Fight Over Price-Fixing Trial Order
• DOJ Wants Misconduct Allegations Hushed In Used Car Case
• Judge Wants To Know If Colo. Kroger Merger Fight Is Moot
• Michael Jordan's NASCAR Team Clinches Win In Antitrust Suit
• FCC Asked To Place Conditions On Skydance-Paramount Deal
• Judge Eyes Limits To Medical Device Co.'s Poaching Verdict
• 1st-Ever Arb. Antitrust Casino Class Certified In Shuffler Suit
• FTC Wants Express Scripts' Defamation Suit Tossed
• Gov't Scrutiny Of Workplace Chat Apps Set To Keep Growing
• EU Court Rejects Latest Challenge To Portugal's Tax Clawback
• Using Contracts As Evidence Of Trade Secret Protection
• The Biggest Trademark Decisions Of 2024
• Hagens Berman Says Apple, Amazon Doc Demand Is Off Base
• 2025's Midmarket M&A Terrain May Hold A Few Bright Spots
• Class Counsel In NCAA-NIL Suits Seek $500M-Plus In Fees
• Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca Taps Ex-DOJ Official As Policy Chair
• UK Probes Tiles Biz's £9M Buy Of Troubled Rival's Assets
• Tubi Says Keller Postman Kept Its Clients In The Dark
• Canadian Gets 2 Years For Stealing Secrets Tesla Bought
• Quinn Emanuel, Keller Postman Want To Lead Live Nation Suit
• Telecom Seeks Win In DC Schools Network Bidding Challenge
• Google-Apple Collusion Plaintiff Asks 9th Circ. To Revive Suit
• FTC, Meta Fight Over Monopolization Trial Limits
• Sandoz Cuts $275M Deal For More Price-Fixing Claims
• DOJ Antitrust Division Head Kanter Stepping Down Friday
• Mountain West Conference Hit With New Suit Over Exit Fees
• T-Mobile-UScellular Link Will Help Consumers, Think Tank Says
• Visa Says 'Contradictory' Debit Card Market Dooms DOJ Suit
• Texas Judge Won't Pause Block Of Corp. Transparency Law
• Stanford Profs Say Roche's Trade Secret Claims Time-Barred
• House GOP Asks CVS How Its PBM Treats Smaller Pharmacies
• Grubhub To Pay $25M To End FTC Suit Over Deceptive Tactics
• Rival Says In-Flight Internet Provider Gogo Foils Competitors
• Racing Teams Flag NASCAR's Dismissal Bid As 'Fantasy'
• When US Privilege Law Applies To Docs Made Outside The US
• Apple Fights Epic's Atty Privilege Challenge Win Over Docs
• Executive Orders That Could Affect Financial Services In 2025
• Carlsberg-Britvic £3.3B Deal Gets UK, EU Green Light
• Lye Indirect Buyers Can't Certify Price Fixing Class
• 'Plans Do Matter,' Tempur Sealy Says In Final Merger Hearing
• Merger Enforcers End Year On Upswing
• Court Approves Mandated $115M Door Factory Sale
• Disney, Fox And Warner Bros. Can't Duck Fubo's Antitrust Suit
• Sony To Pay $7.8M To 4M PlayStation Gamers In Antitrust Fight
• Cos. Urge Judge To Maintain Injunction On Transparency Law
• Albertsons Says Kroger 'Squandered' $25B Merger Bid
• How New Merger Filing Rules Will Affect Economic Advocacy
• OpenAI Slams Musk's 'Evidence-Free' Bid To Block For-Profit
• NCAA, Pac-12, USC Say Reggie Bush Filed NIL Suit Too Late
• Apple Can't Drag Out Privilege Claims Re-Review, Judge Says
• Prindle Goetz Says Attys Took Trade Secrets To Rival Firm
• Coinbase Faces $1B Antitrust Suit Over Crypto Rival's Delisting
• Hilton, Hyatt, Wyndham Get AI Antitrust Case Moved to Calif.
• Advocacy Group Has Change Of Heart On SEC Reg Challenge
• DC Judge Questions DOT On Rail Line 'Buy America' Waiver
• ByteDance Ex-Coder Perjured Himself In Suit, Judge Finds
• 'Copycat' Nantucket Wine Event Ordered To Issue Retraction
• Impact Of Corporate Transparency Act Ambiguity On Banks
• Lawmakers Press Tech Giants As TikTok D-Day Looms
• What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025
• The Prospects Of Pa. Gaining Its Own Antitrust Law After 2024
• CMA Ends Probe Into Sonoco's $3.9B Buy Of European Rival
• UK Launches Probe Into BlackRock Deal For Data Biz Preqin
• Align Tech's $27.5M Antitrust Deal Hits Nerve With Judge
• Ballot Issue Group Can't Nose Into Ark. Casino Measure Suit
• Keller Postman Sues Jenner & Block In Escalating Tubi Fight
• Koch Foods Demands $178K For 'Burdensome' Subpoena
• Restaurants Latest To Accuse Potato Cartel Of Price-Fixing
• Medicare Could Lose Billions From 'Patent Abuse,' Group Says
• Nvidia Should Go First In Patent Suit, Microsoft Tells Albright
• Ex-Mich. Football Stars Eye 'Early' Class Cert. In $50M NIL Suit
• Sam Adams Maker Using 'Draconian' Noncompete, Court Told
• Rumble Gets Green Light To Join Google Ad Tech MDL
• Treasury Seeks To Pause Anti-Laundering Law Injunction
• Jury Clears Blank Rome Attys In Malicious Suit Case
• Advocacy Group Says NCAA's NIL Deal Not 'Illegal' After All
• FTC Dusts Off Price Bias Law In Booze Distributor Suit
• Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer
• FTC, DOJ Pull Antitrust Competitor Collaboration Guidelines
• Big Tech, 'Censorship' Animate Trump FTC Picks
• Grocery Store Rulings Back Enforcers' Merger Approach
• High Court Urged To Take Up Web Scraping Trade Secret Spat
• Justices Question Affiliates' Liability In $47M TM Judgment
• DOJ Tells Justices To Preserve Antitrust Probe Into NAR
• NASCAR Says Nothing Warrants Teams' Latest Injunction Bid
• Movie Producer Asks 11th Circ. To Reverse YouTube's IP Win
• Cross-Border Criminal Antitrust Trial Will Stay In Houston
• WordPress Parent Must Restore WP Engine's Access
• Nippon Offers $5K Bonuses To Ease US Steel Deal Concerns
• Connell Foley Faces DQ Bid In Investment Firm's Bias Suit
• 6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School
• The Current State Of Play Around Corporate Transparency Act
• Predictions For Trump Antitrust Enforcement Of Life Sciences
• Antitrust Bar's 'Leading Light,' Ex-Morgan Lewis Chair Dies
• Albertsons Sues Kroger In Chancery After Blocked Megadeal
• Robinhood Seeks Arb. For Remaining Meme Stock MDL Suits
• Judge Won't Cull EpiPen Antitrust Action Against Mylan
• Walgreens Sued For Docs After $107M FCA Deal With DOJ
• 2nd Circ. Revives Antitrust Suit Over Instagram Algorithm
• FCC Gives Church, Not University, Ill. Low Power FM Station
• Google Takes Aim At Ad Tech Antitrust Claims In States' Suit
• Tekion Accuses CDK Of Blocking Rival Dealership Software
• FinCEN Says CTA Still Constitutional In Post-Injunction Alert
• Trump Taps Ferguson As FTC Chief, Kressin Atty To GOP Seat
• FTC's Holyoak Says Chair OK With Some Cartels
• AGs Urge FCC To Remove 'Pain' From Customer Service Calls
• ESPN, Fox Blast DOJ 'Formalistic Distinction' In Fubo Case
• Judge Says Indiana Grid Project Law Is Discriminatory
• $24.6B Kroger-Albertsons Merger Blocked By 2 Judges
• Vifor Pharma To Pay NHS £23M Over Misinformation Probe
• Ky. Rep. Guthrie To Chair House Energy And Commerce Panel
• Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware
• Vodafone Decision Marks New Era For UK Antitrust Remedies
• Crowell Adds Longtime DOJ Litigator To DC Antitrust Group
• Intellia Can't Escape Patent Suit Over $100M Regeneron Deal
• $82.5M Cheerleading Antitrust Deal, Atty Fee Gets Final OK
• Blockchain Co. IP Fight With Investment Firm Teed Up For Trial
• Live Nation Denied Rehearing In 9th Circ. Arbitration Fight
• O'Melveny Faces DQ Effort In Hyundai TM Dispute
• Meet The Attys Arguing Over Trademark Liability At High Court
• RealPage Says DOJ's Ended Multifamily Rental Criminal Probe
• Hausfeld Hires Freshfields Competition Pro In London
• NHL Dropped From Antitrust Suit By Junior League Players
• Judge Eyes Far Less Trial Time In Meta Case Than FTC Wants
• LendingTree Pushes FCC Again To Rework Lead Consent Rule
• Amazon Says FTC Lacks Authority To Bring Antitrust Case
• Justices Pan Broadway Producer's Blacklist Suit Revival Bid
• US Air Withdraws Fight For $139M In Costs After Sabre Deal
• 2nd Circ. Mulls If DirecTV Has Standing In Retransmission Fight
• Antitrust Posturing Against Algorithmic AI Should End
• Boies Schiller Adds 2 Litigators In New York, San Francisco
• Pa. Fudge Maker Seeks Atty Fees In 'Moonshine' TM Fight
• Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out
• Billionaires Show New Interest In Texas' Intermediate Courts
• High Court To Weigh $47M TM Award Liability For Non-Parties
• Mich. Pot Cos. Get A Shot At Undoing Rivals' Licenses
• Lawmakers Say DraftKings, FanDuel May Be Blocking Rivals
• Merrill Lynch Can't Beat Stock Loan Class Cert. Bid
• FTC Dems Tout Impact of Handbag Merger Win
• ​​​​​​​Top Groups Lobbying The FCC
• New EU Antitrust Head Leaves Google Breakup 'On The Table'
• Trump DOJ Antitrust Pick Means 'Google Should Be Nervous'
• Back To The Future? Antitrust Enforcement Under Trump 2.0
• Atty Tells Jury She's 'Furious' Over Aircraft Co.'s Suit
• Off The Bench: Kyrie Irving Sued, Golf's New Transgender Ban
• Gov't Appeals Texas Judge's Block On Anti-Laundering Law
• Freshfields Adds 2 Corporate Laterals In Silicon Valley
• Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity
• Jane Street Ends Trade Secret Fight With Rival Investing Firm
• Fed. Circ. Grapples With Injunctions On Eylea Biosimilars
• Apple To Appeal Epic's Atty-Client Privilege Challenge Win
• Investors Sue Pegasystems In Corporate Espionage Case
• Netgear Seeks Anti-Suit Injunction Over Huawei's Wi-Fi SEPs
• Providers' $2.8B BCBS Antitrust Deal Gets Judge's Initial OK
• Gov't Efficiency Push Is A 'New Day,' House Speaker Says
• Yardi Must Face Rent-Fixing Suit With Tough Standard
• NCAA's NIL Settlement 'Illegal' In Many States, Lawmakers Say
• Corporate Liability Issues To Watch In High Court TM Case
• Trending At The PTAB: Collateral Estoppel Continues Evolving
• Antitrust in Retail: Handbag Ruling Won't Go Out Of Fashion
• Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer
• CAT OKs 2nd Settlement In Car Delivery Class Action
• Clifford Chance Hires Willkie's European Competition Chief
• French Antitrust Regulator Fines Airlines €14.6M For Collusion
• Insulet Wins $452M In Trade Secret Theft Trial
• UK Clears Vodafone-Three Telecoms Merger With Conditions
• Novartis Fails To Stop Generic Drug Release At Fed. Circ.
• Live Nation Shields Legal Strategy Emails From DOJ Scrutiny
• 9th Circ. Won't Allow Bookseller Group In FTC's Amazon Suit
• Building Contractor Agrees To End No-Hire Pacts
• RealPage Says DOJ's Antitrust Markets 'Hide The Ball'
• Penn State Eyes Ban, Atty Fees After Trial Win Against Retailer
• Amazon Held To Prior Fights, Ongoing Rules In Antitrust Row
• Outgoing FCC Chief Lacerates With A Grin At 'Telecom Prom'
• Takeaways From DOJ's Intervention On Pricing Algorithm Use
• Ace Hardware Looks To Nail Screw-Selling Rival Over TM Use
• Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review
• Trump Names Slater To DOJ Antitrust Against 'Wild' Big Tech
• Texas Judge Blocks 'Quasi-Orwellian' Anti-Laundering Law
• Mich. AG Deal, NIH 4th Circ. Win And X Corp Bid In HIPAA Row
• Investor Attys Seek $6.6M Cut Of $20M Metal Price-Fixing Deal
• Antitrust Judge Rips Apple's 'Meritless' Doc Privilege Claims
• Former Officials Target DOJ, FTC Position In Epic V. Google
• Chancery Orders Revenue Trust For Healthcare Co. 'Poaching'
• $1B Sandoz Placeholder Bid Needs More Support, Judge Says
• Bearing Maker Settles With RTX, Rival In Trade Secrets Case
• Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
• AmEx Loses Arbitration Bid Due To 'Ironic' Unpaid $17M Bill
• Microsoft Asks FTC Watchdog To Look Into Leaked Probe
• Google Wants Ad Tech Claims In Texas Heard By Judge, Not Jury
• PE-Backed Anesthesia Giant Can't Duck Antitrust Claims
• CSX Asks High Court to Weigh Norfolk Southern Rate Case
• NASCAR Calls Lawsuit Bluster Wrapped In 'Antitrust Garb'
• Data Caps Harm Consumers, Rural Electric Co-Ops Tell FCC
• No Standing In 'Threadbare' Voice Assistant Suit, Google Says
• Baker Botts Brings Back Antitrust Atty In DC
• Blank Rome Beats Subpoenas Seeking Attys' Comp Info
• Tech Giants Seek Firm's Communications With Elusive Client
• McCarter & English Adds Ex-DOJ Antitrust Atty In DC
• Consumers Settle £10B Mastercard Swipe Fees Class Action
• Ballard Spahr Adds Fox Rothschild's Antitrust Co-Lead In DC
• Retailers Argue For Higher Damages Bill In Swipe Fees Trial
• UK Watchdog Probes BlackRock Deal For Data Co. Preqin
• Trump Pledges To Block $14.9B US Steel-Nippon Deal
• Expect More State Scrutiny Of PE In Healthcare M&A
• Microsoft Faces £1B Class Action Over Software Overcharging
• Motorists Reach £37M Settlement In Shipping Cartel Case
• ByteDance Says Ex-Worker Can't Avoid Counterclaims
• DOJ, AGs Back Block Of ESPN Sport Streaming JV At 2nd Circ.
• Hagens Berman Sued For Slice Of Atty Fee From Effexor Deal
• Gov't Owned Broadband Often Fails, Report Says
• Nvidia, Microsoft Accused Of Delay Game In AI Chip Fight
• Heritage's $10M Generic Drugs Deal With AGs Gets 1st OK
• Musk Asks Court To Halt OpenAI's Conversion To For-Profit
• Judge Trims Berkshire Unit's $20M Antitrust Trial Loss By 10%
• How Boards And Officers Should Prep For New Trump Admin
• 'Malicious' Intent Testimony Nixed From Blank Rome Suit
• Ark. Governor Wants Out Of Cherokee Casino License Row
• Navigating 4th Circ.'s Antitrust Burden In Hybrid Relationships
• Microsoft Beats Bid To Ax Defense To £270M Antitrust Claim