FTC's Meador Wants To Reassert Standalone Authority

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission's Mark Meador on Monday sketched out an ambitious vision for the agency to use its unilateral authority to combat unfair methods of competition, despite rarely being invoked over the decades.

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FTC's View Of Construction Adhesives Market Won The Day

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court found the Federal Trade Commission was right to focus on the retail market for various types of construction adhesives when asking to block Loctite-maker Henkel's planned $725 million acquisition of Liquid Nails, in an opinion made public Friday.

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Former DOJ Antitrust Leader Rejoins Winston Taylor

By Christine DeRosa

The former deputy director of litigation for the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, who was lead counsel for antitrust trials involving Live Nation-Ticketmaster and Google, has returned to Winston Taylor, the firm said Monday.

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DC Inks $9.3M Deals With 2 More Landlords In RealPage Case

By Isaac Monterose

The District of Columbia has agreed to $9.3 million worth of settlements for its antitrust claims against two landlords it accused of using RealPage Inc.'s revenue management software for rent price-fixing, the city's attorney general announced Monday.

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NC Residents Lose Class Cert. Bid In Hospital Antitrust Fight

By Hayley Fowler

A state court judge has denied class certification to a group of residents in western North Carolina in their healthcare antitrust case, saying they fell short of showing classwide impact in the form of allegedly increased premiums and decreased quality of care.

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Nektar 'Desperate' To Develop Rezpeg, Lilly Exec Tells Jury

By Bonnie Eslinger

An Eli Lilly executive told a California federal jury on Monday in Nektar's $1 billion breach of contract suit against the pharma giant that his handwritten note from a meeting with Eli Lilly's CEO about Nektar being "desperate" was about the struggling company's need for its autoimmune-disease drug Rezpeg to succeed.

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NextEra, Dominion Offer $1B Va. Plan Ahead Of $67B Merger

By Al Barbarino

NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy on Monday unveiled a benefits package aimed at winning support for their $67 billion proposed merger, including up to $1 billion in annual spending with Virginia suppliers for five years.

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Paramount Says Warner Bros. Deal Is Good For Competition

By Matthew Perlman

Paramount has told a California federal court its planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery will be good for competition, arguing that challenges of the deal from state enforcers and the Writers Guild of America are misguided.

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SpaceXAI Drops Apple In Antitrust Claims For OpenAI Deal

By Spencer Brewer

SpaceXAI on Monday dropped its claims that Apple breached antitrust laws by signing a deal with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into the iPhone but kept its claims against OpenAI Foundation intact.

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Ex-Perrigo VP Escapes Some Price-Fixing Claims From AGs

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge has tossed most of the claims against a former Perrigo executive in sprawling generic-drug price-fixing litigation brought by state enforcers, holding there is insufficient evidence he entered into antitrust conspiracies related to more than a dozen dermatological drugs, but teeing up a handful of other claims for trial.

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Apple Urges High Court To Nix App Store Contempt Order

By Craig Clough

Apple urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to overturn a Ninth Circuit ruling that upheld a civil contempt order stemming from its decision to charge commissions to developers' transactions that steer users to cheaper outside payment methods to make purchases, saying it shouldn't be punished for violating the "spirit" of an injunction.

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NCAA Asks 10th Circ. To Reverse Athlete Eligibility Ruling

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The NCAA has urged the Tenth Circuit to overturn a Colorado federal judge's ruling that could let thousands of college athletes who had exhausted their eligibility compete for another season, arguing the judge wrongly found they were likely to prove that excluding them from the league's newly expanded eligibility rules violates federal antitrust law.

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Eli Lilly's $200M Fraud Suit Is Still Defective, Church Cos. Say

By David Minsky

Companies affiliated with the Church of God in Christ urged a Florida federal judge to dismiss Eli Lilly's amended lawsuit alleging a $200 million-plus fraud scheme to resell the Trulicity diabetes drug on the secondary market, saying the latest complaint still lacks specificity despite including more claims. 

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Cumulus Tells 2nd Circ. Even Brief Stay Of Nielsen Order Is Bad

By Nadia Dreid

Cumulus Media says it's going to be irreparably harmed if the Second Circuit doesn't lift the administrative stay it put in place stopping a preliminary injunction that Nielsen is challenging for the second time from going into effect while the appellate court looks at the matter.

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Missing Agreement Sinks Conn. IT Firm's No-Poach Suit

By Brian Steele

An information technology company failed to prove the existence of an oral agreement that a subcontractor would not pursue its clients, defeating its claims over the loss of a municipal contract with the town of Hamden, Connecticut, a state court judge ruled.

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Jushi Opposes Pot Shop's Summary Bid On Antitrust Claims

By Jonathan Capriel

Cannabis giant Jushi Holdings and others are asking a federal court to toss a lawsuit alleging they made a $10 million deal to keep a rival out of town, arguing they did not participate in anticompetitive behavior and that the small, underfunded shop was never going to open regardless of anything they did.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week saw disputes over allegedly fabricated board approvals at a telecom infrastructure startup, insider trading and child safety at Roblox Corp. and ownership of artificial intelligence technology used in legal proceedings.

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Commerce Sets Early Duty Rate On Chinese Tin Mill Imports

By Dylan Moroses

Chinese tin mill products entering the U.S. could face an over 66% countervailing duty after the U.S. Department of Commerce found in a preliminary determination that those products have been subsidized, according to a notice published Monday.

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Clippers Won't Take NBA To Court Over Salary Cap Sanctions

By Alex Lawson

Nearly two weeks after lawyers for the Los Angeles Clippers vowed to explore "every legal remedy" to challenge the NBA's sanctions against the franchise for violating salary cap rules, the team's owner has changed course and will comply with the league's decision.

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Senators Draw Battle Lines Over Sweeping College Sports Bill

By Alex Lawson

U.S. senators on Monday made public statements on their positions either for or against a bill aimed at comprehensively regulating college sports, forecasting a bitter fight over the bill's passage in the upper chamber.

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FTC Focus: A Shift In The Pricing Disclosure Terrain

Recent state and Federal Trade Commission developments spotlight materially different ways in which personalized pricing might be addressed, which could result in an increasingly fragmented regulatory landscape in which businesses face differing disclosure obligations and substantive restrictions depending upon the jurisdiction, say attorneys at Proskauer.

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Big Biz Coalition Backs Litigation Funding Disclosure Rule

By Ryan Boysen

Big U.S. businesses and insurers like Amazon, Anthropic, Chubb and Walmart asked the federal judiciary on Monday to tighten disclosure requirements for litigation finance, claiming the lack of guardrails allows funders to operate "in the shadows."

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Indiana Atty Hit With $10K Sanction Over False Citations

By Andrea Keckley

An Indiana federal judge on Friday adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation to sanction a local attorney $10,000 after finding that five briefs in a consumer credit case included citations to nonexistent cases.

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Jackson Lewis Removes Ex-Atty's Bias Suit To Federal Court

By Patrick Hoff

Jackson Lewis PC has moved a former associate's suit accusing the firm of refusing to accommodate her temporary work restrictions following her medical leave to California federal court, saying state court wasn't the right venue for dispute.

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Bove Rejects Recusal Bid Tied To DOJ Whistleblower Claims

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove declined Monday to recuse himself in a Third Circuit immigration case, saying the attorneys for the petitioner are "recycling a failed pre-confirmation political smear" on him.

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State Farm Attorney Sanctioned $999.99 For AI Hallucinations

By Jonathan Capriel

An attorney for State Farm who filed several motions citing nonexistent cases and fabricated quotes generated by AI software must pay a $999.99 sanction, a Los Angeles judge ruled, an amount one cent below the threshold that would have triggered a mandatory notice to the State Bar of California under state law.

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Ex-Moses & Singer Partner Gets 10 Months For Tax Crimes

By Craig Clough

A Connecticut federal judge Monday sentenced a former Moses & Singer LLP partner to 10 months of imprisonment and ordered him to pay more than $3.1 million for failing to file personal income tax returns, the U.S. attorney's office announced.

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