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Combating "gamesmanship" remains top of mind for the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division as it reviews mergers, according to a New York speech Thursday from acting head Omeed A. Assefi warning parties against "altering" merger notification material or trying to "play games with documents and data."
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May 26, 2026
Charles Schwab and its investors have urged the Fifth Circuit to affirm a final deal they reached in Texas federal court to conclude an antitrust suit over its merger with TD Ameritrade, arguing among other things that Iowa's attorney general lacks standing to appeal the class settlement.
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May 26, 2026
CoStar Group is asking a Virginia federal court to pause an antitrust suit alleging it stifles competition and prevents cross-listings while it seeks to move a similar case, filed by Malm Inc., from California.
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May 26, 2026
Five private universities that have yet to settle with students over the alleged fixing of financial aid offerings argued Tuesday that an Illinois federal judge should deny them class certification rather than allow them to tap different lead counsel after misrepresentations regarding one firm's purportedly contingent casework have come to light.
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May 26, 2026
Fintech platform MoneyLion is looking to escape proposed class claims that it has violated Washington state laws with its customer referral program, arguing the allegations fail to show that the company helped users send referral messages to nonconsenting third parties.
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May 26, 2026
A pair of refrigerant companies filed their opening brief asking the Fourth Circuit to revive an antitrust case accusing DuPont spinoff the Chemours Co. FC LLC and a distributor of conspiring to block competition.
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May 26, 2026
A Kentucky federal judge has agreed to postpone a trial set to start Tuesday over infringement claims of food packaging patents after both sides complained the jury may have been tainted by being exposed to information about antitrust claims from one party that appeared on a jury questionnaire.
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May 26, 2026
Apple Inc. and OpenAI Inc. told a Texas federal court that X Corp. wrongly stymied their ability to take depositions from X employees amid the social media company's sweeping antitrust suit, saying that X has refused to schedule the required number of depositions.
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May 26, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has urged the D.C. Circuit to revive its lawsuit accusing Meta of monopolizing personal social media through its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram, arguing the district court wrongly held the question of monopoly to when the case went to trial, not when the FTC sued.
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May 26, 2026
Wholesale distributors that abide by Connecticut's drug price cap law can hike the cost of their other products to ensure they don't suffer losses, the state told the Second Circuit Tuesday, raising the ire of the companies trying to invalidate the new statute.
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May 26, 2026
Tekion Corp. is defending its antitrust claims accusing CDK Global LLC of monopolization, telling a California federal court that the auto dealership management software giant is withholding data that shows its dominant share of the market.
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May 26, 2026
The NCAA Division I Cabinet could vote in June on streamlined eligibility rules for athletes to give them five years to compete, after the cabinet discussed but did not vote on the age-based proposal in its latest meeting.
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May 26, 2026
Brent W. Johnson is helping to pioneer the use of antitrust law to tackle collusion in low-wage labor markets with work that includes representing workers from poultry- and meat-processing plants in a pair of cases that led to more than $600 million in settlements last year.
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May 26, 2026
A Michigan company that manufactures wheels used in heavy equipment has sued a rival business, alleging its patents were being infringed and that the two sides had been unable to come to a resolution to avoid litigation.
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May 26, 2026
A group of female athletes told a California federal judge that attempts to eliminate certain revenue streams from the NCAA's $2.78 billion class action settlement benefits mostly male athletes while diminishing the protections for women in college sports.
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May 26, 2026
An Illinois federal judge temporarily restored Zillow's access to some 40,000 Chicago-area home listings that the company argued were wrongly withheld by Compass and a multiple listing service after the platform sought to enforce a ban on posts broadcast first on the private market.
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May 22, 2026
This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.
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May 22, 2026
Washington and Nevada regulators' lawsuits accusing prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket of violating state gambling laws can proceed in their respective state courts, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Thursday, denying the companies' arguments that the actions raise federal questions and thus belong in federal court.
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May 22, 2026
A California federal judge's recent use of advisory juries for high-profile tech disputes — including Elon Musk's OpenAI for-profit conversion challenge and states' social-media addiction fight with Meta — is an uncommon practice that's intended as a "reality check" for judges deciding "socially explosive" disputes, according to legal experts.
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May 22, 2026
Creating a multibillion-dollar competition between Illinois and Indiana to build the Chicago Bears' new stadium is a strategy that has become increasingly popular among pro franchises that can leverage tax and financial incentives, and even real estate deals.
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May 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice is requiring a Japanese cement company and its CalPortland subsidiary to divest three ready-mix concrete plants to a Southern California company to address antitrust concerns arising from CalPortland's proposed $712 million acquisition of construction giant Vulcan Materials' Golden State concrete plants, the agency announced.
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May 22, 2026
The Fifth Circuit has remanded a real estate developer's antitrust claims over a Texas city's alleged illegal restraint on retail water utility services, saying a lower court did not give the appeals court a "sound basis" to examine the claims.
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May 22, 2026
State enforcers say they want a federal court to split up Live Nation and Ticketmaster following a New York federal jury verdict that Live Nation had harmed competition by monopolizing ticket sales for large concert venues, even as the concert promotion giant sought to undo the verdict against it or to be granted a new trial.
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May 22, 2026
Nexstar Media Group Inc. told a California federal court it needs to merge with Tegna Inc. to compete more effectively, especially with streaming services owned by the Big Tech giants, as it faces a challenge to the deal from state enforcers and DirecTV.
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May 22, 2026
OpenAI was ordered to turn over deposition testimony from three executives that was taken in the course of Elon Musk's California case challenging the company's conversion into a for-profit entity to a group of authors and news organizations suing over the alleged use of copyrighted content to train artificial intelligence models.
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May 22, 2026
A pair of Senate Democrats cautioned financial regulators about greenlighting fintech lender Enova International's application to become a national bank holding company, calling it a "predatory lender."