Mastercard and Visa bid at a London appellate court Thursday for a chance to overturn a judgment that found default fees they charged on transactions breached competition law, saying the decision made legal errors.
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Visa, MasterCard Seek To Appeal Default Fee Ruling

By Ronan Barnard

Mastercard and Visa bid at a London appellate court Thursday for a chance to overturn a judgment that found default fees they charged on transactions breached competition law, saying the decision made legal errors.

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Dish Blasts Disney's Bid To Pause Discovery In Sling TV Suit

By Matthew Perlman

Dish Network is pushing back on a bid from the Walt Disney Co. to pause discovery for Dish's antitrust counterclaims over the programming giant's carriage licensing deals.

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EU Antitrust Officials Targeting 'Entire AI Stack'

By Bryan Koenig

The European Union's top antitrust official said Thursday that bloc enforcers are casting a wide net as they look at the ways artificial intelligence companies may try to anticompetitively boost themselves over rivals, including underlying training models and needed power and cloud computing infrastructure.

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Holyoak's US Attorney Nomination Advances

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Melissa Holyoak, former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, to be U.S. attorney for the District of Utah was sent to the full Senate on Thursday.

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MERGER REVIEW

Teamsters Urge DOJ To Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal

By Katherine Smith

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters urged the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday to block the proposed merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery if the agency can't secure worker protections, claiming that the merger poses an anticompetitive threat to the film and television industry's labor markets.

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INTERNATIONAL

Apple Wins Partial Strike-Out Of £853M Battery Class Action

By William Janes

Apple Inc. scored a partial victory on Thursday in an £853 million ($1.1 billion) collective action over allegations that it throttled the performance of iPhone batteries as the U.K. competition court threw out part of the case.

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EU Court Told To Send Back JPMorgan, Credit Agricole Fines

By Bryan Koenig

A European Court of Justice advocate general urged the European Union's highest court Thursday to return appeals from Credit Agricole Group and JPMorgan Chase & Co. challenging antitrust fines imposed for manipulating a benchmark interest rate back to a lower court, concluding that court failed to consider enforcer tweaks to the penalties.

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LITIGATION

Trip.com, Execs Downplayed China Monopoly Risks, Suit Says

By Katryna Perera

One-stop travel service provider Trip.com and its executives "recklessly understated" to shareholders the risks of their business activities running afoul of China's antimonopoly laws, according to a new proposed class action in New York federal court.

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Ex-Consultants Sue Gallagher Over Nonsolicitation Clauses

By Mark Payne

Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher Co. shouldn't be able to enforce nonsolicitation clauses that "stifle valid competition and hinder employee mobility," a pair of former group welfare benefits consultants told a federal court this week, telling the court both clauses run afoul of North Carolina law. 

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FDIC Owns SVB Insurance Claims, Court Told

By Abigail Harrison

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., as receiver for Silicon Valley Bank after its historic collapse in early 2023, is entitled to recover on what could be tens of millions of dollars in financial institution bond proceeds, the FDIC's counsel told a North Carolina federal court Thursday.

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ITC Extinguishes RJ Reynolds Vape Import Patent Fight

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. International Trade Commission has shot down a fight R.J. Reynolds launched targeting imports of certain vape products the company alleged were infringing an electronic smoking patent.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Antitrust Crime Enforcement May Escalate Under New Chief

While the recent departure of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division chief created uncertainty about enforcement priorities, the debut speech from the new acting division head revealed that companies can only expect the division’s focus on vigorous criminal prosecution and offender deterrence to grow, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Series

Podcasting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Podcasting has changed how I ask questions and connect with people, sharpening my ability to listen without interrupting or prejudging, and bringing me closer to what law is meant to be: a human profession grounded in understanding, judgment and trust, says Donna DiMaggio Berger at Becker.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

4th Circ. Scolds Atty Suspected Of Using AI In Race Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Fourth Circuit has reprimanded an attorney suspected of using generative artificial intelligence to draft briefs in a race discrimination lawsuit against Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., warning that courts need to grapple with the technology as it "may soon become the norm."

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Democrats Seek Review Of Bondi's Role In Brother's Cases

By Alison Knezevich

Two Democratic lawmakers have asked the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general to review whether Attorney General Pam Bondi "adequately recused herself" from cases involving clients represented by her brother Brad Bondi, who is a partner at Paul Hastings LLP.

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Sinema Says Tryst With Ex-Guard Not In NC Court's Reach

By Abigail Harrison

Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, now a Hogan Lovells attorney, told a North Carolina federal court Thursday that a lawsuit alleging her cross-country affair with a former member of her security detail ended a 14-year marriage must be dismissed because the trysts occurred outside state borders.

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Ex-Judge Testifies About Alleged Forgeries In Amazon Case

By Kelcey Caulder

The former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia testified Thursday about the alleged forging of court documents, signatures and court stamps in a criminal case against a woman accused of defrauding Amazon out of $9.4 million through fraudulent invoices. 

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Judge Newman Takes Suspension Battle To Supreme Court

By Ryan Davis

Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman brought her fight against a suspension imposed on her by her colleagues to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, arguing that a lower court wrongly held that her challenges to the order are not subject to judicial review.

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Calif. Bar Says Internal Docs Bolster Claims Against Exam Co.

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of California has bulked up its breach of contract and fraud suit against the administrator of its "disastrous" February 2025 bar exam, filing an amended complaint in light of information it says it learned from internal communications unearthed amid discovery.

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CFTC Takes 1st Steps Toward Prediction Market Regulations

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission opened the door Thursday to promised prediction market regulation, calling for public feedback on what such rules might look like while laying out the staff's view on the current rules that the platforms should follow in order to offer betting on sports and other events.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Becker & Poliakoff

Blackstone Chambers

Bochner PLLC

Brick Court Chambers

Clark Hill

Cohen Ziffer

DWF LLP

Ellis & Winters

Esbrook PC

FisherBroyles

Freshfields

Goodwin Procter

Gordon Rees

HWG LLP

Harcus Parker

Hogan Lovells

Hueston Hennigan

Jones Day

Leach & Walker

Linklaters LLP

McAngus Goudelock

Milbank LLP

Monckton Chambers

Nossaman LLP

O'Melveny & Myers

One Essex Court

Paul Hastings

Potomac Law Group

Poyner Spruill

Robinson Bradshaw

Rosen Law Firm PA

Scott&Scott

Sidley Austin

Stephenson Harwood

Steptoe LLP

Sterne Kessler

Thompson Hine

Van Camp Meacham

Vitale & Partners

White & Case

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alabama Policy Institute

Albertsons Cos. Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

Apple Inc.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.

Cincinnati Financial Corp.

Cisneros

Credit Agricole SA

DISH Network Corp.

ESPN Inc.

FuboTV Inc.

Google LLC

HSBC Holdings PLC

Hamilton Lincoln

Home Box Office Inc.

Hulu LLC

International Brotherhood of Teamsters

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

MasterCard Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

New Civil Liberties Alliance

Nikola Corp.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Inc.

SVB Financial Group

Simon & Schuster LLC

Skydance Media LLC

Sling TV LLC

State Bar of California

The DIRECTV Group Inc.

The Kroger Co.

The Walt Disney Co.

Visa Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Zillow Group Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Colorado Supreme Court

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

European Commission

European Union

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Trade Commission

International Trade Commission

State Administration for Market Regulation

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court