Google Says DOJ Overreaching With Proposed Antitrust Fixes

By Nadia Dreid

Google has told a D.C. federal court that the U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers are trying to force it into unreasonable antitrust measures that go beyond what the court imagined when it handed down its remedies order in the monopolization suit.

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Attys Seek $20M Award For $59M Fragrance Price-Fix Deals

By Nadia Dreid

Fragrance ingredient buyers and the attorneys who helped them secure $59 million in price-fixing settlements are now asking a New Jersey federal court for final approval and the green light to set aside a third of those funds for legal counsel.

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Data-Scraping Co. Says Reddit Must Face Counterclaims

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A data-scraping company accused of acting like "would-be bank robbers" in taking in copyrighted data from Reddit that is then used to train AI said in a brief defending its antitrust counterclaims that the content in question actually belongs to Reddit users, and that Reddit anticompetitively restricts access to it.

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Bristol-Myers, Others Appeal Revlimid MDL To 3rd Circ.

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Natco Pharma, AbbVie and other pharmaceutical companies have sought permission to file an interlocutory appeal for a sprawling antitrust multidistrict litigation over Celgene Corp.'s cancer drug Revlimid to the Third Circuit after a New Jersey federal judge refused to toss it.

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Comcast, Viamedia Settle Cable Ad Antitrust Case Before Trial

By Celeste Bott

Comcast Corp. and Viamedia Inc. have reached a settlement in their decadelong antitrust battle over the cable advertising market just days before a jury trial was set to begin in Illinois federal court over allegations the cable giant is monopolizing local advertising markets.

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CMA Probes FirstCash's £232M Buy Of Financial Services Biz

By Irene Madongo

Britain's antitrust regulator said Monday that it has launched a probe into the proposed £232 million ($317 million) take-private acquisition of financial services provider Ramsdens by FirstCash, a U.S. pawnshop company.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week approved a $250 million settlement of litigation over Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., while Albertsons Cos. Inc. accused Kroger Co. of rejecting changes that could have saved their $24.6 billion merger, and the Delaware Supreme Court ordered Verisk Analytics Inc. to keep pursuing a $2.35 billion acquisition.

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Caterpillar Attacks 'Frankenstein' Price Behind Import Duty

By Eddie Beaver

Caterpillar told a tribunal on Monday that the U.K. trade authority created a "Frankenstein price" to wrongly justify a steep import duty on the construction equipment giant's Chinese-made excavators following an anti-dumping investigation.

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In 2/3 Generics Cases, Mylan Execs Allowed To Revoke 5th

By Bryan Koenig

A Connecticut federal judge carved a different path Friday for two later generic-drug price-fixing cases from state attorneys general, allowing Mylan executives to revoke their previous invocation of the Fifth Amendment unimpeded, after previously allowing the enforcers to challenge that revocation in the first case set for trial.

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Visa, Mastercard Face Class Actions Over Swipe Fees

By Isabel Jackson

Visa and Mastercard are facing class actions potentially worth billions of pounds for allegedly charging unlawful transaction fees, the law firms bringing the claims said Monday.

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Charter Says AT&T's Fiber False Advertising Suit Is Baseless

By Spencer Brewer

Charter Communications Inc. asked a Texas federal court to toss claims brought by AT&T Teleholdings Inc. accusing Charter of falsely touting its Spectrum-brand residential internet service as being entirely fiber, saying its advertisements of "fiber-powered" internet are not misleading.

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NCAA Fixes Labor Price With DIII Scholarship Ban, Suit Says

By Craig Clough

The NCAA engages in an ongoing conspiracy to fix the price of Division III athletic labor by not allowing colleges at that level to offer sports scholarships, three current and former student-athletes alleged in a proposed class action filed Friday in California federal court.

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Ski Resorts, Trade Group Ask To Toss Price-Fixing Claims

By Matthew Perlman

Major ski resort operators including Vail Resorts Inc. and Alterra Mountain Co. are looking to toss an antitrust case from skiers and snowboarders, telling a Colorado federal court there's no evidence the operators agreed to share information or fix prices.

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Colo. Real Estate Co. Says Investor Misread PE Priority Deal

By Nate Beck

A Colorado industrial real estate firm seeking to exit a state court lawsuit argued that an investor retained its share in the company without scrutinizing a 2023 deal that gave a private equity firm control of the company and a priority stake in exchange for a $26.5 million investment.

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Brief

Govia Wins £7.6M Costs Deal After Rail Class Action Fails

By Joanne Faulkner

The Competition Appeal Tribunal approved a £7.6 million ($10.2 million) costs settlement in favor of Govia Thameslink Railway and its parent companies on Monday following the collapse of a £400 million collective action brought by the late David Boyle.

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Blue Cross Says National TM Link Dooms Ford Antitrust Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association have asked a Michigan federal judge to hand them a win in Ford Motor's antitrust suit alleging supracompetitive pricing, arguing the Blue Cross trademark means the association and affiliates act as a "single entity" that "cannot conspire with itself."

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Judge Reopens NC State Player's NCAA Eligibility Suit

By Alex Lawson

A federal judge reopened a North Carolina State University football player's eligibility suit against the NCAA on Monday after the player's attorneys informed the court that they have been unable to fully resolve the case.

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How Senate-Passed Bill May Reshape NCAA Antitrust Liability

With the U.S. Senate's recent passage of the Protect College Sports Act, practitioners should not wait for the U.S. House of Representatives' approval to prepare for shifts in potential antitrust protections, compensation, media rights deals and conference mergers, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

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2nd Circ. EFAA Ruling Shifts Employer Litigation Strategy

In Diaz-Roa v. Hermes Law, the Second Circuit recently held that, under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, employers can't carve out nonharassment claims and send them to arbitration, which has implications for discovery, litigation costs and resolution strategy in EFAA-covered disputes, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

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Weil PE Pro Declines Executive Partner Seat Amid Turmoil

By Marialuisa Taddia

Ramona Y. Nee has decided not to become executive partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, days after merger talks with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ended and amid departures on both sides of the Atlantic, sources close to the firm told Law360 Monday.

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Analysis

Whistleblower 'Gold Rush' Might Strain DOJ, Experts Warn

By Phillip Bantz

A new federal program offering cash for tips that result in criminal fraud charges is poised to set off a whistleblower "gold rush" that could uncover more fraudsters, but might also invite a high number of low-quality claims that burden businesses and strain limited U.S. Department of Justice resources, experts say.

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Morgan & Morgan Can't Pursue Ad Ban Suit, Fla. Bar Says

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Bar has pushed back against Morgan & Morgan PA's lawsuit alleging that a rule banning the use of a celebrity's voice or image in lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment, arguing that the personal injury giant lacks standing to bring the case.

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Burns & Levinson Malpractice Claims Revived On Appeal

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts' intermediate-level appeals court Monday reinstated legal malpractice claims brought by a youth soccer league against defunct Boston law firm Burns & Levinson LLP alleging a firm partner failed to provide a heads-up about a federal visa fraud investigation.

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Feature

Dugout Divided: Foley & Lardner Clients Clash In World Series

By Chris Villani

The World Series matchup between Foley & Lardner LLP clients, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays, has pitted partners against one another as the firm enjoys a good-natured intrasquad rivalry during the Fall Classic.

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Former Willkie Partner, Wife Owe $14.5M Tax Debt, Gov't Says

By Zak Kostro

A former Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and his wife owe the U.S. more than $14.5 million in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court that seeks to enforce federal tax liens against their New York home to settle the debt.

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Trump Plans To Nominate SC Governor's Counsel To Bench

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump plans to nominate William Grayson Lambert, chief legal counsel for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, for a judgeship on the District of South Carolina.

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Scholar Warns AI Pitfalls Can Go Beyond Hallucinations

By Andrea Keckley

The number of court cases around the world involving AI-generated errors fell in both the second and third quarters of 2026, according to new research by a legal scholar who recently warned that the risks of using artificial intelligence in litigation now go beyond so-called hallucinations.

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Maurene Comey Illegally Fired, Entitled To Pay, Judge Holds

By Pete Brush

Former New York federal prosecutor Maurene Comey was unlawfully fired by President Donald Trump's administration, a federal judge in Manhattan held Monday, granting back pay and potentially legal fees to the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey.

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