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May 05, 2026
The growing popularity of betting in sports has prompted Duane Morris LLP to respond to the meshing of the two sectors by integrating its sports and gambling law groups.
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May 05, 2026
BASF has reached a $3 million settlement in a case accusing several companies of working together to manipulate the prices of chemicals used to make polyurethane, the first deal struck in the multidistrict litigation centered in Pennsylvania.
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May 05, 2026
Transocean Ltd. disclosed Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division was scrutinizing its plan to acquire rival Valaris Ltd. in an all-stock deal valued at about $5.8 billion, pausing the combination of two of the largest offshore drilling fleets into a $17 billion operator.
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May 04, 2026
Apple on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a mandate directing a lower court to move forward with determining exactly what Apple can charge developers on in-app purchases, arguing there are important questions that need to be resolved by the justices first.
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May 04, 2026
Nexstar is not pleased with the Second Circuit's decision to revive DirecTV's antitrust suit accusing the broadcasting giant of trying to fix the price of retransmission fees, and it's hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will step in and overturn the ruling.
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May 04, 2026
OkCaller.com is asking the Eleventh Circuit to revive its lawsuit accusing Google of monopolizing the market for search engine services, arguing that the lower court was wrong to adopt Google's "straw man" and treat the reverse phone number lookup website's argument as "incoherent."
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May 04, 2026
California's insurance regulator announced Monday that it's pursuing major penalties against State Farm over its alleged mishandling of claims related to 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the same day the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in court that insurers conspired to cancel homeowners' policies in the years before the fires.
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May 04, 2026
A hedge fund that is suing units of Bank of America and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for alleged spoofing by their clients has told a New York federal court that a recent decision to exclude the hedge fund's damages expert doesn't doom its case, pushing back on a bid from the banks for an end to the litigation.
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May 04, 2026
Dell Technologies Inc. became the latest company to consider the Lone Star State as its new legal home, telling shareholders Monday that updates to the state's corporate laws and its business-friendly attitude have created a compelling case to make the move.
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May 04, 2026
Kroger and Albertsons are urging an Oregon federal judge to reject a $10 million legal fee request from nine attorneys general who joined the Federal Trade Commission in successfully challenging a proposed $24.6 billion merger of the grocery giants, saying the plaintiff states played a "minimal role" in the litigation.
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May 04, 2026
Rival airlines have scrambled to boost routes, plug service gaps and snatch up Spirit Airlines customers in the two days since the budget carrier's demise, raising alarms about what other casualties might be in store for an airline industry reeling from skyrocketing jet fuel costs.
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May 04, 2026
Media Matters for America announced a "legally binding settlement" Monday resolving its retaliation claims against the Federal Trade Commission, securing a promise by the agency "to forgo ever reissuing or issuing a substantially similar" administrative subpoena to the left-leaning watchdog in the search for censorship of conservatives.
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May 04, 2026
Three California tribes have asked a federal judge to stay their litigation seeking to stop prediction market platforms from conducting what they say is illegal gambling on their lands, saying they can wait until the Ninth Circuit rules on their appeal challenging a denied preliminary injunction.
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May 04, 2026
A Second Circuit panel refused Monday to let a group of gas stations separately sue Visa and Mastercard over their swipe fees, holding the would-be plaintiffs cannot get out of a $5.6 billion antitrust settlement the credit card giants inked with merchants.
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May 04, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission is requiring 365 Retail Markets LLC to unload a food service kiosk business in order to move ahead with its planned $848 million acquisition of fellow self-service retail company Cantaloupe Inc.
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May 04, 2026
Federal officials said Monday an investigation into potential collusion and foreign ownership in the cattle meatpacking industry is continuing, as the Justice Department separately nears a settlement with Agri Stats over claims that it helped processors exchange sensitive information.
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May 04, 2026
Tech groups urged a Florida federal court to deny an attempt to end a lawsuit challenging a state law that punishes social media websites for banning accounts of political candidates' based on viewpoint, calling officials' defense of the legislation "borderline frivolous."
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May 04, 2026
A former manager at an Ohio labeling and packaging facility and his ex-employer have settled a federal lawsuit alleging he took a job with a competitor and then poached another employee, in violation of his noncompetition and nonsolicitation agreements.
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May 04, 2026
Consumers who pursued an antitrust class action against Google urged the California federal judge who criticized their 98,000 hours billed as "grotesquely bloated" to approve their $85 million fee request, emphasizing Friday that they filed suit a year before state attorneys general joined the case and maintained a leading role in the litigation.
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May 04, 2026
A nearly 20-year veteran of the Federal Trade Commission, who most recently was a Kirkland & Ellis LLP antitrust and competition partner, has joined Cooley LLP as chair of the firm's global antitrust and competition practice, the firm said Monday.
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May 04, 2026
The Free State Foundation has urged the Federal Communications Commission to remove the antitrust exemption for sports leagues when negotiating with content providers, arguing it could allow broadcasters to compete more equitably with streaming apps.
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May 04, 2026
Global oil giants and an industry group have said Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has no basis to allege they conspired to restrict renewable energy and delay the transition away from fossil fuels in violation of federal antitrust laws.
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May 01, 2026
The California federal judge presiding over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion criticized Musk's attorney Marc Toberoff on Friday for eliciting "waste of time" trial testimony into Musk's $97.4 billion acquisition bid, warning Toberoff he "shouldn't throw young lawyers under the bus" by not quickly acknowledging his role.
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May 01, 2026
News watchers and streaming subscribers have brought a lawsuit against Paramount Skydance Corp. opposing both its pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and the completed tie-up between Skydance Media and Paramount Global, telling a California federal court the earlier transaction has already caused higher streaming prices.
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May 01, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court just handed down a decision in favor of an anti-abortion pregnancy center that a left-leaning media watchdog says supports its argument that a district court had the power to block a Federal Trade Commission subpoena before the agency tried to enforce it.