2nd Circ. Rejects Defunct Soccer League Antitrust Appeal

By Bryan Koenig

A Second Circuit panel on Tuesday refused to grant the North American Soccer League a new antitrust trial against Major League Soccer and soccer's U.S. governing body, concluding that the defunct league waived any arguments about market definition, and even if it didn't, its assertions still fail.

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NC Judge OKs DOJ, RealPage Deal In Antitrust Suit

By Grace Dixon

A North Carolina federal judge signed off on the U.S. Department of Justice's settlement with RealPage, the latest development in a suit alleging landlords coordinated to inflate rental prices via the company's algorithmic pricing software.

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Alphabet Investors Win Class Cert. In Ad Auction Suit

By Sydney Price

A California federal judge certified a class of Alphabet investors accusing Google and CEO Sundar Pichai of misleading the market about whether its digital ad auctions favored Facebook's advertising network, finding common questions outweigh individualized issues.

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FTC Wants 5th Circ. To Pause Appeal In Merger Filing Case

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission asked the Fifth Circuit to put its appeal on hold in a case challenging the agency's effort to overhaul its premerger filing requirements, to give enforcers time to consider developing a new revision.

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Calif. Urges 9th Circ. To Revive Pay-For-Delay Restrictions

By Dorothy Atkins

California urged a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday to find a Golden State law that bans drugmakers from cutting deals out of state that pay to delay generics competition doesn't violate the U.S. Constitution, arguing that ruling otherwise could jeopardize many longstanding state laws that regulate out-of-state conduct.

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Pac-12 Reaches Deal With Mountain West In Exit Fee Suit

By David Steele

The Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences have settled their federal lawsuit over $55 million in "poaching" fees charged by Mountain West for luring its member schools away, the leagues have announced.

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DOJ Says Container Makers Fixed Prices During Pandemic

By Bryan Koenig

Four of the world's largest shipping container manufacturers and seven of their current and former executives conspired to restrict production to drive up prices, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday in criminally charging them, although most may be beyond the reach of American courts.

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Innsworth Challenges Share Of Mastercard Settlement Sum

By Joanne Faulkner

Litigation funder Innsworth told the High Court on Tuesday that the distribution of a £200 million ($268 million) settlement from a U.K. mass claim against Mastercard is "illogical" and "flawed" in the first case to test a Competition Appeal Tribunal settlement decision.

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Shoppers Seek Fees At 9th Circ. For Kroger, Albertsons Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

Counsel for grocery store consumers urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to find they substantially prevailed in their proposed class action challenging Kroger's since-abandoned $24.6 billion bid for Albertsons and are entitled to attorney fees, arguing that the lower court wrongly concluded the case was mooted by other federal actions blocking the merger.

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Asus Resolves Patent Case Involving Rare Injunction Request

By Elliot Weld

Sisvel's patent pool has reached a deal with Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Asus to license its standard essential pool of Wi-Fi multimode patents, resolving litigation that includes a case between one pool member and an Asus unit in which the pool was seeking a rare request for a permanent injunction on standard essential patents.

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NJ Fights AvalonBay's Redo Bid In RealPage Antitrust Suit

By Isaac Monterose

New Jersey is fighting multifamily landlord AvalonBay Communities Inc.'s attempt to escape the state's consumer fraud claim in its rent price-fixing suit against property management software company RealPage Inc. and multiple landlords.

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Rocket Mortgage Defends Exit In Homebuyer Antitrust Case

By Nate Beck

Rocket Mortgage's parent company is arguing in Michigan federal court that a proposed class failed to show direct injury from an alleged scheme by the company to funnel homebuyers to brokers promoting costlier Rocket-affiliated mortgage services, in a brief supporting its bid to escape the case.

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Hanna Wants 3rd Circ. To Weigh Homebuyers' Antitrust Suit

By Isaac Monterose

Hanna Holdings Inc. urged a Pennsylvania federal court to let the Third Circuit weigh in on the lower court's dismissal orders for a proposed antitrust class action that accuses the real estate brokerage of conspiring with other parties to artificially inflate buyer-broker commission fees.

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After Feds' Input, Gilstrap Denies Injunction In $445M IP Case

By Theresa Schliep

U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap on Monday rebuffed Collision Communications Inc.'s bid for an injunction blocking Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. from selling products that a jury said were infringing in a $445 million verdict in a case that the federal government used to argue for broader use of injunctions in patent suits.

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Valve's Pivot On Gamer Arbitrations Gives Wash. Judge Pause

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge Tuesday appeared conflicted over Valve Corp.'s bid for a court order to block hundreds of gamers from arbitrating consumer protection claims, pressing the game developer on its evolving arbitration stance while suggesting users agreed to updated terms requiring such disputes to be resolved in court.

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Grand Slams Push Back On Tennis Group's Bid For Access

By Ganesh Setty

Organizations behind Wimbledon and the French Open asked a New York federal court to reject a player group's claims that they're denying it access to the tournaments in retaliation for its antitrust lawsuit, arguing that no jurisdiction exists to grant any relief.

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Realtor, Dispensary Say Other Shop Is Abusing RICO Claims

By Mike Curley

A realtor, a dispensary and its owner are urging an Illinois federal court to toss racketeering claims from another dispensary alleging they helped plan an illegal "raid," saying the complaint is abusing the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act process and fails to meet any of its pleading requirements.

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9th Circ. Leans Toward FCC In Appeal Over SIM Card Beef

By Nadia Dreid

The Ninth Circuit seemed to have its doubts Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission made the wrong call in finding it had no say over a Haitian mobile carrier's decision to deactivate SIM cards that were brought into the United States and used to evade international calling rates. 

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TikTok Says 'Market Exploitation' Doesn't Give NC Jurisdiction

By Mike Curley

TikTok is pushing the North Carolina Supreme Court to throw out claims by the state's attorney general alleging it deceptively marketed its platform as safe for minors, saying the "market exploitation" theory would in effect allow any business that operates on the internet to be hauled into any state court.

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General Dynamics Seeks Pause In No-Poach High Court Bid

By Elaine Briseño

General Dynamics Corp. asked the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily pause its petition after the plaintiffs dismissed the company from their suit that accused shipbuilders of conspiring to suppress wages and reached settlements with the remaining defendants.

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Seeborg's Term As Calif. Northern District Chief Judge To End

By Bonnie Eslinger

Chief District Judge Richard Seeborg is expected to conclude his time as the top judge for the Northern District of California in July, according to a spokesperson for the judiciary, to be succeeded by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.

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Recent Benchmarking Suits Highlight DOJ Enforcement Risks

The U.S. Department of Justice's recent settlements with RealPage and Agri Stats inform the level of antitrust risk surrounding the use of benchmarking services and suggest an aggressive enforcement approach, particularly with respect to granular data and nonprice data reporting, say attorneys at Axinn.

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Becoming The Biz-Savvy GC That Portfolio Companies Need

Candidates for general counsel roles at private equity-backed portfolio companies should prioritize proving their sector-specific experience, commercial judgment and ease with uncertainty — and attorneys hoping to be candidates in five to 10 years should start working on those skills now, says Dimitri Mastrocola at Major Lindsey.

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The 2026 Summer Associates Survey

By Daniela Porat

Law students hoping to land summer associate roles at their dream firms have to start applying earlier and earlier, forcing students to strike a difficult balance between focusing on academics and completing applications. Find out how students navigated the ever-competitive process and which firms topped students’ wish lists in the latest survey from Law360 Pulse.

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2nd Circ. Nixes $900M Suit Against Boies Schiller, Dentons

By Caroline Simson

The Second Circuit Tuesday refused to revive a racketeering lawsuit seeking up to $900 million in damages from Dentons and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, in which the BigLaw firms were accused of misleading a former client in relation to a deal, and later arbitration, involving Senegal's state-owned energy company.

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She Has A Point: Sheppard's Michelle Replogle

By Theresa Schliep

When Michelle Replogle of Sheppard and Nitika Gupta Fiorella of Fish & Richardson PC were opponents in a patent case, Fiorella said, Replogle stood out for her expertise and respect, which she showed to everyone regardless of their experience or whom they represented in the litigation.

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$1.8B IRS Deal Fund 'Not Slush Fund,' Blanche Tells Senators

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche argued before a Senate committee on Tuesday that the nearly $1.8 billion settlement fund announced on Monday as part of the president's settlement with the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax documents "is not a slush fund."

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Quinn Emanuel Owes More Sanctions In Guardant Fight

By Lauren Berg

Quinn Emanuel and its team representing medical testing company Natera will shoulder further sanctions on top of the $3 million already imposed over the firm's misrepresentations concerning an expert witness in Guardant Health's false advertising case, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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Nelson Mullins Partner Confirmed To SC Federal Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 52-38 on Tuesday to confirm Sheria Clarke, a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, as a judge for the District of South Carolina.

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Brother May Pay Ex-BigLaw Atty's Legal Fees In Insider Case

By Julie Manganis

A former BigLaw associate charged with orchestrating a sweeping insider trading scheme can have his legal expenses covered by his co-defendant brother if the two waive potential conflicts, a Massachusetts federal magistrate judge said Tuesday.

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Ex-Trader Says Crypto Co.'s Bid For Sanctions Is 'Unfounded'

By Hayley Fowler

A former trader said a cryptocurrency company is using an "unfounded" characterization of his deposition conduct to seek sanctions and lend credence to facts it hasn't otherwise been able to prove in its suit accusing him of usurping $8.1 million in digital assets.

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