DOJ Looks To Streamline Some Merger Reviews

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice introduced a new model timing agreement for merger reviews on Thursday, as part of what it said was an effort to help antitrust enforcers focus their investigations on key issues early in the process.

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Paramount-Warner TRO Extended As Injunction Fight Looms

By Lauren Berg

A California federal judge Thursday extended a temporary restraining order preventing Paramount Skydance Corp. from closing its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

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House Panel Summons CEOs Over Private Listing Partnership

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A House antitrust subcommittee requested a briefing with Midwest Real Estate Data CEO Rebecca Jensen and Compass International Holdings CEO Robert Reffkin over their companies' private listing partnership.

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NCAA Appeals Ohio Judge's Block On Athletes' Eligibility

By Alex Lawson

The NCAA has appealed an Ohio state judge's decision that permitted 24 college basketball players to play in the upcoming season while they challenge the organization's eligibility restrictions.

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Google Fined €890M By EU For Restricting Competition

By Tom Fish

The European Union fined Google owner Alphabet Inc. a total of €890 million ($1.04 billion) on Thursday after finding that the U.S. technology giant unfairly favored its own services in search results and restricted app developers from directing users to cheaper options.

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CMA Seeks Views On Sky's £1.6B Buy Of ITV Broadcast Arm

By Dawood Fakhir

The U.K. antitrust watchdog said Thursday that it has called for comments on how media giant Sky Group's planned £1.6 billion ($2.1 billion) acquisition of an ITV division could affect competition in Britain.

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Brazil Wants Crackdown On Alleged Media Rights Cartel

By Alex Lawson

Antitrust authorities in Brazil on Thursday called for a slew of convictions against what it described as an international cartel that colluded to fix prices and suppress competition in the market for sports broadcasting rights.

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Another Landlord Exits Kentucky's RealPage Antitrust Case

By Isaac Monterose

Kentucky has settled antitrust claims with another landlord that it had accused of using RealPage's revenue management software for rent price-fixing.

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Chemours Tells 4th Circ. To Deny Refrigerant Antitrust Suit

By Bryan Koenig

DuPont spinoff The Chemours Co. FC LLC urged the Fourth Circuit not to revive an antitrust suit from a refrigerant distributor alleging it was effectively denied access to a key refrigerant, arguing Wednesday that there's nothing monopolistic about refusing to sell "on the plaintiff's own preferred terms."

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Seagate Urges Justices Not To Review NHK Antitrust Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Seagate Technology LLC is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to review a Ninth Circuit decision reviving portions of its price-fixing suit against NHK Spring Co. Ltd., arguing that NHK's petition mischaracterizes how the Ninth Circuit applied the Foreign Trade and Antitrust Improvements Act.

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Lucky Strike Can't Move Bowling Alley Buy-Up Suit, Court Told

By Bryan Koenig

Bowlers urged a Washington federal judge Wednesday not to let Lucky Strike transfer to New York their proposed class action accusing it of monopolization by buying up alleys across the country.

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Web Scraper Seeks Toss Of Reddit Copyright Claims

By Elliot Weld

SerpApi, a company that scrapes online content, asked a New York federal judge Thursday to let it out of a copyright lawsuit from Reddit alleging it illegally looted content at the behest of Perplexity for AI training, contending Reddit doesn't own copyrights on the bulk of the user content on its website and that the protective measures the suit alleged were circumvented belong to Google.

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NY Exterminator Prevails In 'Black Widow' TM Settlement

By Aaron Keller

A New York exterminator has prevailed in a settled dispute with a competitor over which party is allowed to use the phrase "black widow" to advertise pest control services, according to a consent judgment filed in Connecticut federal court.

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Crowell & Moring Adds Former UBS Bank USA GC

By Anna Sanders

Crowell & Moring LLP hired a former general counsel for UBS Bank USA this week to advise banks, fintechs and digital assets companies on regulatory matters.

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Being A Singer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Before law school, I spent seven years trying to make it as a professional singer in Los Angeles, and nearly everything I learned about preparation, humility, confidence and more has followed me into my legal practice, says Jessica Caterina at Moses & Singer.

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AG Watch: Ohio AG Joins State Antitrust Enforcement Trend

Amid the recent reprioritization in the federal government's competition enforcement agenda, two recent cases provide critical insight into how the Ohio attorney general will proceed in the relatively unprecedented trend of state attorneys general aggressively pursuing antitrust matters, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Simpson Thacher Warned Co. About Deal Terms, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

A retired Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner who handled the fundraising vehicle alleged to have destroyed Patriot National Inc. told a Florida jury Thursday that he flagged deal terms that later became detrimental to the insurance services company.

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ABA Rips DOJ's 'Absurd' Firm Subpoenas In Documents Fight

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association has blasted as "absurd" the government's move to subpoena law firms as an attempt to avoid a documents request from the organization amid allegations the Trump administration worked to intimidate law firms into conforming with his policy goals through executive orders last year.

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Judge's Deportation Probe 'Off The Rails,' DOJ Tells DC Circ.

By Britain Eakin

The Trump administration urged the full D.C. Circuit to either order U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to terminate his criminal contempt inquiry into the administration's Alien Enemies Act removals last year, or order him to forgo live testimony in the probe.

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Jack Smith's Lawyers Say Criminal Referral Twists Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

Former special counsel Jack Smith's legal team has said the criminal referral a U.S. Congress member sent the Department of Justice to investigate Smith is based on a "spurious claim."

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500-Member NYC Public Defender Union Ends Strike

By Andrea Keckley

The first and so far only New York City public defender union to go on strike this year announced on Wednesday that its approximately 500 members are returning to work after reaching a tentative agreement with their managers.

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Patent Atty Sues USPTO Over 'Flawed' Disciplinary Procedure

By Hailey Konnath

An Ohio patent lawyer Thursday accused the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of using an unlawful "pay for play" system for its disciplinary proceedings against attorneys, claiming the disciplinary proceedings are "inherently biased" and rigged against him and others facing discipline.

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Senate Confirms 2 Judges, Advances Ohio And Colo. Picks

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate on Thursday voted 48-47 to confirm Judge Daniel Traynor of the District of North Dakota to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and 49-44 to confirm Antonio M. Pozos, a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, as a judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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