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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 18, 2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, one of the state attorneys general in a coalition of states that recently won a jury verdict finding Live Nation illegally established a monopoly over the live music industry, said Monday the next step is a structural overhaul of the conglomerate.
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May 18, 2026
A Florida court tossed a qui tam action alleging that McGraw Hill and another educational publisher billed Sunshine State schools for educational materials at disparate costs in violation of the "best pricing" statute, ruling that the law only applies to interstate sales.
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May 18, 2026
High school athletes told a California federal judge that state regulations unfairly limit their name, image and likeness opportunities, contrary to the state governing body's claim that the rules exist to protect amateurism and keep transfers reasonable.
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May 18, 2026
Amazon is pushing back after California state enforcers accused the e-commerce company of bullying major brands into pressuring competing retailers to raise prices, arguing the case has never involved price-fixing allegations before.
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May 18, 2026
Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby sued the NCAA in Texas state court Monday, suggesting that the organization is slow-walking its investigation into his gambling activity as a means of keeping him sidelined for the 2026 college football season.
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May 18, 2026
The NCAA has permanently banned a former men's college basketball player, one of more than two dozen people indicted as part of an alleged sports gambling scheme, for arranging with a teammate and a gambler to fix a game.
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May 18, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission got an Illinois federal judge to hit pause on its right-to-repair antitrust lawsuit against John Deere, citing ongoing settlement talks less than two months after the company struck a $99 million deal with farmers promising to facilitate independent equipment repairs.
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May 18, 2026
Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday it has hired the former co-chair of Wiley's wireless practice in Washington to take the reins of the Tampa, Florida-headquartered firm's telecommunications, media and technology team as chair.
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May 18, 2026
A Boston federal jury on Monday found Takeda Pharmaceuticals conspired with a generic drugmaker to delay the launch of a generic version of Takeda's anticonstipation drug, awarding purchasers $885 million, a figure that's expected to swell after a rule tripling plaintiffs' antitrust damages is applied.
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May 18, 2026
In an advisory decision Monday, a California federal jury cleared OpenAI and executives Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of allegations they breached the nonprofit's charitable trust by converting to a for-profit, handing billionaire Elon Musk a defeat in a closely watched three-week trial that threatened to shake up the artificial intelligence industry.
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May 18, 2026
Consumer group Which secured permission on Monday to withdraw its collective action against Qualcomm over the supply of chips without any money being paid to the 29 million class members, in a first decision of its kind by the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
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May 18, 2026
NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy said Monday they will merge in an all-stock transaction that combines two of the largest regulated U.S. utilities, in a roughly $67 billion deal steered by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and McGuireWoods LLP.
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May 15, 2026
The D.C. Circuit did not seem convinced Friday morning that the Federal Communications Commission was part of a racist conspiracy to kill Standard General hedge fund manager Soo Kim's $8.6 billion merger with broadcaster Tegna due to his race.
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May 15, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel refused Friday to let four independent pharmacies avoid arbitrating their antitrust claims that CVS exploited a Medicare loophole to charge them exorbitant fees, standing by a district court's conclusion that just because parts of the arbitration agreement were unconscionable doesn't negate the entire thing.
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May 15, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge held that RealPage and most landlords accused of price-fixing must face the state attorney general's antitrust allegations because the complaint contends all but one landlord largely ceded individual pricing decisions to RealPage, according to a mixed decision unsealed Thursday that tossed some state claims.
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May 15, 2026
Several developments in rural connectivity, from a cascade of federal grants to legislative efforts to shore up the Universal Service Fund, means a crowded plate for the NTCA's new boss, Mike Romano. Here, Law360 catches up with Romano to hear more about his plans as he settles into his role.
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May 15, 2026
Litigation funder Burford Capital is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Third Circuit decision dismissing on jurisdictional grounds its bid to arbitrate a dispute relating to German antitrust litigation, arguing that the appeals court committed a "fundamental error."
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May 15, 2026
An official from the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division warned that algorithmic pricing software could be subject to criminal enforcement if the companies using it know their nonpublic data is going to be used to set prices for competitors.
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May 15, 2026
A class of renters asked a Tennessee federal court to preliminarily approve more than $218 million worth of settlements that aim to resolve antitrust claims against a group of multifamily landlords accused of using property management software company RealPage Inc.'s technology for rent price-fixing.
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May 15, 2026
A Virginia federal judge has set an August trial date after shutting down a bid by Zillow and Redfin to escape a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit accusing the companies of sealing a deal to stop competing on multifamily rental listings with a $100 million payment.
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May 15, 2026
The past week in London has seen singer Rita Ora be sued by her management company, the billionaire Gertner brothers file a part 8 claim and Stephenson Harwood lodge a debt claim against a member of the Bulgari jewelry dynasty. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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May 15, 2026
Britain's Competition and Markets Authority said Friday it will allow Getty Images to buy its rival Shutterstock if Shutterstock sells its editorial arm to address concerns around news content supply in the U.K.
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May 14, 2026
Elon Musk's counsel urged a California federal jury during trial closings Thursday to find OpenAI breached its charitable trust aided by Microsoft Corp. and slammed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's credibility, while OpenAI's counsel argued Musk is trying to attack his competitor and urged jurors to ask themselves, "Who's telling the truth?"
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May 14, 2026
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have reached an agreement in principle to form a new joint venture aimed at ending wireless dead zones in the U.S. by pooling resources to increase capacity, according to an announcement made Thursday.
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May 14, 2026
Google urged a California federal judge on Wednesday not to let Yelp invoke the U.S. Department of Justice's D.C. search monopoly win in the local search provider's own antitrust case, arguing that the two lawsuits look at the interconnection between local and general search through fundamentally different lenses.