Controversial U.S. Department of Justice settlements with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Live Nation, along with the approval of Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, are increasingly inspiring state attorneys general to strike out on their own as antitrust enforcers, often in direct challenge to a federal government that Democrats have cast as "corrupt."
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'Political' Deals Pit DOJ Against State AGs, And Not Just Dems

By Bryan Koenig

Controversial U.S. Department of Justice settlements with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Live Nation, along with the approval of Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, are increasingly inspiring state attorneys general to strike out on their own as antitrust enforcers, often in direct challenge to a federal government that Democrats have cast as "corrupt."

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Door-Maker Drops Appeal Of Landmark Divestiture Order

By Matthew Perlman

Door manufacturer Jeld-Wen Inc. has dropped its latest appeal of the first court-ordered divestiture in a private merger challenge before the Fourth Circuit could rule, after pressing ahead with oral arguments earlier this year.

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4th Circ. Kills NCAA Eligibility Injunction Over Wrong Analysis

By Craig Clough

The Fourth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction Friday barring the NCAA from enforcing its five-year eligibility rule against four former junior college student-athletes, saying the lower court improperly took a "quick-look scrutiny" instead of a "rule of reason" antitrust analysis, thus lowering the players' burden of proof.

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Northrop Wants FTC To Nix Conditions For $9.2B Orbital Buy

By Matthew Perlman

Northrop Grumman Corp. has asked the Federal Trade Commission to remove the conditions enforcers placed on its $9.2 billion acquisition of defense technology services company Orbital ATK Inc., telling the agency the restrictions are no longer in the public interest.

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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.

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LITIGATION

Music Publishers Say X Finds Conspiracy In 1 Emailed 'We'

By Craig Clough

The National Music Publishers' Association and its members have told a Texas federal court that X Corp.'s antitrust suit fails to allege any conspiracy, with the best argument the company could muster being an "implausible" interpretation of a single word — "we" — in a single email.

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NWMLS' Compass Counterclaims Point To Private Listing Ban

By Nate Beck

Northwest Multiple Listing Service hit back at Compass with counterclaims in an antitrust case over a policy to stop brokers from offering properties privately before posting them on the online home listing platform, a practice the group said will be banned in Washington starting in June.

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Schneider Wallace Loses Bid For Bigger Piece Of $75M Fee

By Lauren Berg

A California federal magistrate judge on Friday rejected Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP's bid to increase its cut of a $75.4 million fee award for representing plaintiffs in a $228.5 million Sutter Health antitrust deal, saying lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP's allocation of $1.4 million to Schneider Wallace was fair.

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Former Air Force Sgt. Cops To Charges In $37M Fraud Scheme

By Tom Lotshaw

A former U.S. Air Force master sergeant pled guilty to three criminal charges tied to a bid-rigging scheme that duped the government out of at least $37 million, according to federal prosecutors.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Opinion

FTC Case Risks Redefining Price Discrimination

Federal Trade Commission v. Southern Glazer puts a spotlight on the blurry line between illegal price discrimination and ordinary competition, and could potentially set a precedent that puts nearly any manufacturer at risk of Robinson-Patman Act enforcement, says Jeremy Sandford at Econic Partners.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Pregnant DLA Piper Atty Fired For 'Sloppy' Work, Jury Told

By Pete Brush

A former trademark associate told a Manhattan federal jury Monday that DLA Piper "blindsided" her with termination after she announced she was pregnant, but the BigLaw firm countered that she was fired for "repeated mistakes" and other on-the-job shortcomings.

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Files Of 10 Jones Day Clients Breached In Cyberattack

By Aebra Coe

Jones Day is the latest law firm to be hit by a cyberattack, the firm confirmed Monday, revealing that an unauthorized party accessed files of 10 clients.

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Troutman, Ex-Associate Reach Deal In Discrimination Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A former Troutman Pepper Locke LLP associate asked a D.C. federal court Monday to pause a suit as the two sides have reported they had reached a settlement agreement over her discrimination claims against the firm, sidestepping a trial set to begin next month.

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Ex-EEOC Leaders Back BigLaw Firms In Trump EO Appeal

By Patrick Hoff

A group of former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials are backing four BigLaw firms in the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders targeting the firms, arguing the president's directives contradict how Congress meant for the EEOC to operate.

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Jackson Walker, Sorrento CEO Hit With RICO Suit Over Ch. 11

By Emlyn Cameron

More than a dozen Sorrento Therapeutics shareholders sued law firm Jackson Walker LLP and the defunct biopharmaceutical company's ex-CEO for over $100 million, accusing them of conspiring to launch an unnecessary bankruptcy in an irrelevant jurisdiction.

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Analysis

Can State Courts Tame The 'Wild West' Of Judicial Security?

By Cara Bayles

As threats against local judges continue to ramp up, protection and incident tracking varies not only from state to state but county to county, making it difficult to draw the national judicial security landscape. Now, lawmakers are looking to use federal resources to even out disparities.

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LSC Seeks $2.14B As White House Pushes To Slash Funding

By Marco Poggio

The Legal Services Corp. is asking Congress for $2.14 billion in fiscal year 2027 to fund civil legal services for low-income Americans who cannot afford an attorney.

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Atty Convicted Of Staging Truck Crashes Seeks New Trial

By Parker Quinlan

A disbarred New Orleans attorney has asked a federal judge in Louisiana for a new insurance fraud trial, arguing a suite of issues from her federal trial last month caused her to receive what she described in a filing as a "miscarriage of justice."

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Trump Orders Could Chill US Arbitration, Group Warns

By Caroline Simson

The College of Commercial Arbitrators has urged the D.C. Circuit to reject the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders yanking the security clearances of four BigLaw firms, arguing a contrary ruling would "imperil" arbitration in the U.S.

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Ex-Wis. Judge Loses Bid To Shake ICE Obstruction Conviction

By Lauren Berg

A federal judge Monday refused to overturn a former Wisconsin state judge's conviction for helping shield a defendant in her courtroom from arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, rejecting her contention that, because ICE had no authority to make the arrest in the courthouse, there was no obstruction.

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Ill. Justices Want MAGA Op-Ed Author Judge's Claims Axed

By Emily Sawicki

Illinois Supreme Court justices have asked a Chicago federal judge to throw out constitutional claims filed by a retired Illinois state trial court judge alleging he was wrongfully terminated over protected speech in a political opinion column, with the justices arguing the federal court should not interfere with a state court matter.

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Justices Clear Path For DOJ To Dismiss Bannon's Conviction

By Cara Salvatore

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated an appeals court's order upholding Steve Bannon's conviction over his nonresponse to a congressional subpoena investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, clearing the way for the Justice Department to dismiss his indictment.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured a mix of high-profile corporate disputes, insider trading allegations, contract fights and significant rulings shaping fiduciary duty and deal litigation.

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A&O Shearman

Abell Eskew

Abrams Tax Law

Adams Duerk

Adler & Stachenfeld

Akerman LLP

Akin Gump

Alto Litigation

Anderson Kill

Angeli & Calfo

Archer & Greiner

ArentFox Schiff

Arnold & Porter

Axinn Veltrop

Bailey & Glasser

Baker & Hostetler

Baker Botts

Baker Donelson

Barnes & Thornburg

Bartko Pavia

Bartlit Beck

Barton LLP

Bass Berry

Berger Montague

Berger Singerman

Bernstein Litowitz

Blank Rome

Block & Leviton

Bock Hatch

Boies Schiller

Botkin Chiarello

Bowman & Brooke

Boyden Gray

Bracewell LLP

Bradley Arant

Brann & Isaacson

Brockstedt Mandalas

Brown Rudnick

Bryan Cave

Bush Seyferth

Carrington Coleman

Carter Arnett

Chaiken Ghali

Cleary Gottlieb

Clement & Murphy

Cohen & Buckmann

Cohen Milstein

Cohen Seglias

Conn Maciel

Constantine Cannon

Cooley LLP

Coplan & Crane

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dentons

DiCello Levitt

Dorsey & Whitney

Duane Morris

Dunlap Bennett

Dykema

Eimer Stahl

Engstrom Lee

Eversheds Sutherland

Faegre Drinker

Fears Law

Fenwick & West

Filippatos PLLC

Fluet & Associates PLLC

Foley & Lardner

Foley Hoag

Fox Rothschild

Frantz Ward

Freshfields

Fried Frank

Friedman Kaplan

Genova Burns

Gibson Dunn

Gimbel Reilly

Girard Sharp

Glenn Agre

Goldberg Segalla

Goldman Ismail

Goodwin Procter

Gouchev Law

Grant & Eisenhofer

Greenberg Traurig

HWG LLP

Hangley Aronchick

Haviland Hughes

Haynes Boone

Hecker Fink

Hobbs Straus

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hollingsworth LLP

Honigman LLP

Hughes Hubbard

Hunton Andrews

Hurwitz Sagarin

Husch Blackwell

Hyman Phelps

Jackson Lewis PC

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Katten Muchin

Keker Van

Kelley Drye

Kennedys Law LLP

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kleinbard LLC

Kostelanetz LLP

Kreindler & Kreindler

Kutak Rock

Labaton Keller

Landye Bennett

Langsam Stevens

Lanier Law Firm

Latham & Watkins

Lauro & Singer

Law Office of Annie M. Ellis

Law Offices of Moffa Sutton

Lee Segui

Lewis Brisbois

Lewis Gianola

Lieff Cabraser

Linklaters LLP

Liskow & Lewis

Littler Mendelson

Loeb & Loeb

Lowey Dannenberg

Lynch Carpenter

Manatt Phelps

Maslon LLP

Mayer Brown

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGuireWoods

Michael Best & Friedrich

Milbank LLP

Miller Waxler

Mintz Levin

MoloLamken

Moore & Van Allen

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Motta Law

Munck Wilson

Munger Tolles

Napoli Shkolnik

Nelson Mullins

Nicolaides Fink

Niro McAndrews

Nixon Peabody

Norton Rose

Nukk Freeman

O'Melveny & Myers

O'Toole Scrivo

Ogletree Deakins

Orrick Herrington

Pachulski Stang

Pallas Partners

Parker Poe

Pashman Stein

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Phillips Lytle

Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Polsinelli PC

Pomerantz LLP

Potter Anderson

Proskauer Rose

Reed Smith

Richards Layton

Riley Safer

Rimon PC

Robins Kaplan

Robinson Bradshaw

Ropes & Gray

Rose Immigration Law Firm

Sbaiti & Company

Schneider Wallace

Seeger Weiss

Segal Roitman

Seyfarth Shaw

Sheppard Mullin

Shook Hardy

Sidley Austin

Silverman Thompson

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Stephan Zouras

Steptoe LLP

Sterlington PLLC

Sterne Kessler

Stevens & Lee

Stoel Rives

Stradley Ronon

Strang Bradley

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Thompson Hine

Tillotson Johnson

Tripp Scott

Troutman

Tusan Law

Tycko & Zavareei

UB Greensfelder

Varnum LLP

Venable LLP

Warner Norcross

Weber Gallagher

Weitz Firm

White & Case

Wigdor LLP

Wiggin LLP

Wiley Rein

Wilkinson Stekloff

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Elser

Winston & Strawn

Wolf Popper

Womble Bond

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AARP Inc.

AB Volvo

ABKCO Music & Records Inc.

AE Industrial Partners LP

Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc.

Altria Group Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

Amica Center for Immigrant Rights

Astellas Pharma Inc.

B. Riley Financial Inc.

BMG Rights Management GmbH

Baretz & Brunelle LLC

BlackRock Inc.

Boyer Co.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Burford Capital LLC

CACI International Inc.

Compass Inc.

Compass Minerals International, Inc.

Concord Music Group Inc.

Cottrell Inc.

Downtown Music Holdings LLC

EE Ltd.

EMI Group Ltd.

Elevance Health Inc.

Emerson Electric Co.

FM Global

FanDuel Inc.

GLS Capital LLC

Google LLC

Great American Insurance Co.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Ingerman

Integer Holdings Corp.

JELD-WEN Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Justia Inc.

KPMG International

Kobalt Music Group Ltd.

L3Harris Technologies Inc.

Lexitas Legal

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

LinkedIn Corp.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Mayimba Music Inc.

NERA Economic Consulting Inc.

National Association of Attorneys General

National Collegiate Athletic Association

National Foreign Trade Council

News Corp.

Northrop Grumman Corp.

Northwest Multiple Listing Service Inc.

Novartis AG

Orbital ATK Inc.

PG&E Corp.

Peermusic

PepsiCo Inc.

Phillips 66

RealPage Inc.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Reservoir Media Inc.

Riot Games Inc.

Sony Music Publishing LLC

Sorrento Therapeutics Inc.

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits LLC

Steves & Sons Inc.

Sutter Health

Tegna Inc.

Tesla Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Kraft Heinz Co.

The Royalty Network Inc.

Tilray Inc.

Twitter Inc.

UCLA School of Law

Uber Technologies Inc.

Volunteers of Legal Service

Walmart Inc.

Warner/Chappell Music Inc.

Wixen Music Publishing Inc.

X Corp.

eBay Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

California Attorney General's Office

California Civil Rights Department

Central Intelligence Agency

Colorado Attorney General's Office

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Illinois Supreme Court

Legal Services Corp.

Morongo Band of Mission Indians

New Jersey Office of the Public Defender

New York Attorney General's Office

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Tennessee Attorney General's Office

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Hawaii

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin