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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 13, 2026
Walter Merricks must pay £75,000 ($101,000) to cover the costs of his involvement in a proposed £400 million collective class action against rail operator Govia Thameslink, a London court ruled after he backed away from serving as the claim's class representative.
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May 13, 2026
General Dynamics can walk away from a proposed class action accusing major shipbuilders of using no-poach agreements to suppress wages for engineers and architects, after the parties stipulated Tuesday to dropping the company from the Virginia federal court suit from which other defendants have settled.
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May 13, 2026
Crowell & Moring LLP announced Wednesday that it is deepening its commitment to Minnesota by opening a new office in Minneapolis with a team of eight attorneys and said it's expecting more growth in the near future.
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May 13, 2026
Zillow has accused property brokerage Compass and a Chicago-area multiple listing service provider of hatching a "backup plan" to protect a private home sales network, even after the online real estate marketplace company established a rule last year banning home listings from its platform that have appeared elsewhere for more than a day.
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May 13, 2026
A retired military officer and his wife have agreed to end a lawsuit against Ameritas and a former insurance agent alleging a fraudulent investment scheme based on the sale of unsuitable equity-indexed annuities, according to a notice filed Wednesday in North Carolina federal court.
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May 13, 2026
A trade group representing rural wireless providers said it opposes the Federal Communications Commission's recent approval of EchoStar's sales of spectrum to AT&T and SpaceX totaling roughly $40 billion, saying rural providers and consumers will likely suffer.
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May 12, 2026
A California federal judge appeared open Tuesday to partly unwinding a jury's decision to convict a former Google engineer of trade secret theft and economic espionage, saying he's "somewhat skeptical" of the economic espionage charges since he doesn't see sufficient evidence the engineer intended to benefit China.
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May 12, 2026
OpenAI Inc. CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in the California federal jury trial over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion, acknowledging that colleagues have accused him of being deceptive while testifying that "I believe I'm a trustworthy person."
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May 12, 2026
Certain rules created by the National Association of Realtors should be considered conspiracy under the Sherman Antitrust Act because they encourage real estate agents to avoid showing listings with low commissions to potential buyers, a Utah-based real estate firm argued to a Tenth Circuit panel Tuesday.
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May 12, 2026
A California producer of lab-grown chicken has asked a Florida federal judge to rule that the state's regulation against its product is unlawful, arguing a total ban on cultivated meat has no basis in public health and amounts to "economic protectionism" in violation of the U.S. Constitution's dormant commerce clause.
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May 12, 2026
An attorney representing authors accusing OpenAI of feeding their copyrighted works into training data for large language models told a New York federal magistrate judge Tuesday that the AI startup was asserting vastly different positions in New York and in an ongoing trial in California about whether it ever intended to become a for-profit enterprise.
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May 12, 2026
E-commerce company Shopify Inc. can't shed monopolization claims brought by buy now, pay later payment platform Sezzle Inc., although a Minnesota federal judge has trimmed the dispute.
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May 12, 2026
State broadcasting groups have called on Congress to update the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 to protect fan access to programming amid the growing number of streaming paywalls.
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May 12, 2026
NextEra Energy has agreed to shell out $9.5 million to put to rest proposed class action allegations it conspired with other nuclear energy producers to fix wages, according to a notice filed Tuesday in Maryland federal court.
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May 12, 2026
Elanco Animal Health Inc. will pay $6.75 million while Petco, PetSmart, Chewy, Petsense and PetMeds are all on the hook for six-figure payouts under a settlement Tuesday resolving lawsuits accusing Elanco of paying pet supply retailers not to stock generic versions of its Advantix topical flea and tick prevention drug.
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May 12, 2026
The Low-Power TV Broadcasters Association asked the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday to allow it to use the 5G broadcast standard to deliver content to smartphones.
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May 12, 2026
The National Collegiate Athletic Association urged North Carolina justices to keep out of bounds a name, image and likeness lawsuit from members of a 1983 North Carolina State University championship basketball team, arguing that a lower court was right to find the suit several decades expired.
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May 12, 2026
Zillow told a Washington federal court that homebuyers should not be allowed to amend their complaint alleging the real estate platform used its market dominance to inflate costs nationwide, arguing the late changes cure none of the deficiencies in the buyers' claims.
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May 12, 2026
Cintas Corp. is giving the Federal Trade Commission additional time to review its planned $5.5 billion acquisition of fellow uniform and facility services supplier UniFirst Corp. for its effect on competition.
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May 12, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division waded into a private patent infringement lawsuit Monday, telling a Delaware federal court that just "reading" a patent, or viewing and sequencing the genetic material that must be submitted for the seed patents at issue, can't on its own count as infringement.
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May 11, 2026
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified Monday in a California federal jury trial over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion, denying that he demanded OpenAI's board reinstate ousted CEO Sam Altman while acknowledging that he offered to pay up to $29 billion to bring Altman and others to Microsoft.
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May 11, 2026
Nestlé Health Science U.S. filed a lawsuit in Washington state Friday in an effort to unmask "suspected bad actors" whom it accuses of illegally intercepting high volumes of nutritional supplements and funneling them to resellers on Amazon.com.
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May 11, 2026
Consumers have hit Ace Hardware with a proposed class action in Illinois federal court alleging they pay higher prices because the retail cooperative helps its member stores conspire to fix prices and divide local markets.
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May 11, 2026
Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI Inc. has told a New York federal court that Reddit Inc.'s amended claims that its content was used illegally to train AI models should be dismissed because they still fail to show that Reddit holds copyrights on the "vast majority" of that content.
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May 11, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission told the D.C. Circuit on Monday there is no reason to block the FCC's staff approval of Nexstar Media Group Inc.'s planned $6.2 billion deal to buy Tegna Inc. since a California federal judge has already halted the broadcast merger during review.