Google Makes Last DC Circ. Push Against DOJ's Search Win

By Bryan Koenig

Google took one final swing Monday at upending a D.C. federal judge's rulings faulting it for monopolizing online search and forcing it to prop up search engine rivals with data and syndicated results, telling the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Department of Justice's case targets earned market dominance.

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Albertsons Says It Offered $800M To Save Kroger Deal

By Jarek Rutz

Albertsons Cos. Inc.'s general counsel testified Tuesday that The Kroger Co. passed on proposed store divestitures that could have helped save their $24.6 billion merger, while Kroger's lawyers pointed to information shared with Albertsons and challenged its complaints about the process.

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2nd Circ. Won't Block Connecticut Drug Price Cap

By Matthew Perlman

A Second Circuit panel affirmed a lower court's decision Tuesday, refusing to block Connecticut from enforcing a cap on generic and off-patent drug prices while a trade association for drug wholesalers challenges the statute.

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UK Wants Apple To Face More Competition For Digital Wallets

By Matthew Perlman

Britain's competition enforcer proposed changes Tuesday that would require Apple to give rival payment services access to iPhones' contactless technology on more viable commercial terms, in an effort to boost competition and spur innovation.

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T-Mobile Beats Spectrum Foe's Antitrust Counterclaims, Again

By Bryan Koenig

Investment firm WCO Spectrum must paint a much wider, more cohesive picture of how T-Mobile's mid-band spectrum practices have anticompetitively edged it out of buying up spectrum leases from high schools and colleges, according to a California federal judge's ruling Monday once again tossing counterclaims lodged in T-Mobile's racketeering suit.

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Virgin Media Owners Ask CMA To Revisit UK Fiber Biz Deal

By Najiyya Budaly

The owners of Virgin Media O2 called on Britain's competition authority on Tuesday to reconsider its objection to their proposed $2.7 billion acquisition of Substantial Group after the government handed a free pass to allow BT to rescue TalkTalk.

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CMA Seeks Views On Intersurgical's Teleflex Deal

By Irene Madongo

Britain's antitrust regulator invited comments Tuesday on whether local medical device maker Intersurgical's proposed $530 million acquisition of two businesses could harm competition in U.K. markets.

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AirPro Says Rival Used Merger Talks To Build Competing Tool

By Susan Smiley

Counsel for AirPro Diagnostics LLC urged a Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday to reverse a lower court's summary judgment ruling and allow its breach of contract suit to proceed to trial, arguing that a rival company violated a mutual party agreement by using confidential information disclosed during merger negotiations to develop a competing diagnostic tool.

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Texas Appeals Court Skeptical Uri Interference Claims Viable

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday sounded dubious of a claim brought by energy consumers alleging that dozens of companies involved in the natural gas industry tortiously interfered with their electricity contracts by decreasing natural gas output during a deadly winter storm.

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TQL Seeks Ax Of Trucking Cos.' RICO Suit Over Lost Bids

By Linda Chiem

Total Quality Logistics LLC has asked a Texas federal judge to reject a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit from family-owned trucking companies accusing it of steering long-haul shipments to illegal "fly-by-night" or "chameleon" carriers and muscling out legitimate trucking companies.

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FCC Urged To Maintain Radio Station Ownership Caps

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Two organizations representing musical artists have asked the Federal Communications Commission to keep media ownership limits on radio station groups in place.

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Hunton Adds Husch Blackwell Commercial Litigator In Dallas

By Nate Beck

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP said it has added a nationally recognized litigator with nearly two decades of experience to its commercial litigation practice.

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AGs' Paramount Settlement Reflects States' Growing Influence

The recent California federal court approval of the California v. Paramount Skydance settlement illustrates how state attorneys general are gaining new independence and influence, and companies must account for state enforcement when assessing merger risks ahead of a deal's closing, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

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Kagan: High Court 'Blinded Itself' To Election Ruling Effects

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan criticized her conservative colleagues' approach to deciding election law cases Tuesday, saying they often rule without considering the real-world consequences of their decisions. 

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Retired Judges Say DOJ's Ethics Complaint Is Meritless

By Courtney Bublé

A coalition of 61 retired federal judges has admonished the U.S. Department of Justice for filing a complaint against federal judges in Minnesota for speaking to a newspaper about the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in their state.

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Polsinelli Seeks Sanctions For 'Knowingly False' IP Suit

By Elliot Weld

Law firm Polsinelli PC has asked a Tennessee federal judge to sanction a medical device company for advancing what it says were "knowingly false and materially incomplete" positions in a suit accusing the firm of pursuing bad faith patent infringement claims on behalf of a client.

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'Petulant' Attorney Behavior Requires New Trial, 5th Circ. Says

By Cara Salvatore

The Fifth Circuit ordered a new trial Friday for a woman who was halted while speaking at a Louisiana local council meeting, saying defense lawyers for two council members threw "a skunk into the jury box" with a bevy of improper maneuvers.

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Feds Offer Up-Front Payments For Fraud Whistleblower Tips

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced the creation of a whistleblower incentive program offering up-front monetary awards for tips that lead to criminal fraud charges.

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Atty Used Legal Cred To Prop Up Ponzi Schemes, DOJ Says

By David Aaro

A Florida attorney was arrested Tuesday on charges of using his legal bona fides to help run two Ponzi schemes that swindled investors out of nearly $2 million, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Ex-NOLA Injury Atty Gets 32 Months For Staging Crashes

By Christine DeRosa

A former New Orleans personal injury attorney has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for his role in a scheme to fake vehicle accidents with tractor trailers and other commercial vehicles so he could pursue lawsuits and extract settlements.

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