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• January 30, 2026

  Kroger, Albertsons Look To Block FTC Testimony Handover

  Grocery giants Albertsons and Kroger asked a California federal judge to protect sensitive expert testimony that helped the Federal Trade Commission torpedo their planned merger in 2024, which a new FTC target said is urgently needed to show that the regulator is creating contradictory market analyses.

• January 30, 2026

  FTC Taps Goodwin Atty For Consumer Protection Deputy Role

  A veteran of Goodwin Procter LLP has been tapped to serve as deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, the regulator announced.

• January 30, 2026

  OpenAI Challenges X's Deposition Bid In Antitrust Case

  OpenAI said one of its former executives shouldn't be deposed in an antitrust case brought by X Corp. regarding ChatGPT integration on Apple devices, saying he had nothing to do with the deal.

• January 30, 2026

  Live Nation Plaintiff States Fight Plan To Stay Antitrust Claims

  Nearly three dozen states accusing Live Nation of stifling competition in the live entertainment industry urged a New York federal judge not to pause their state-law claims in order to focus on federal law, arguing that handling all claims at once "will be the most efficient approach."

• January 30, 2026

  'Inferential Leap' Kills Academic Researchers' Conspiracy Suit

  A New York federal judge took a proposed class of academic researchers to task Friday, permanently dismissing their lawsuit accusing six of academia's largest journal publishers of colluding to stifle their leverage and eliminate pay for peer review work, finding that the publishers' rules being contested do nothing of the sort.

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