Paramount-Warner Merger Challenges Get March 2027 Trial

By Lauren Berg

The California federal judge overseeing challenges of Paramount Skydance Corp.'s planned $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery set a trial date for March 2027.

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Paramount CEO Says Warner Challenge Is About Politics

By Matthew Perlman

Paramount Skydance Corp. CEO David Ellison said Tuesday that a challenge of the company's planned purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery from state enforcers is really about CNN and concerns that his politics could impact news coverage.

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Amazon Delivery System Suppresses Wages, NJ AG Says

By Carla Baranauckas

New Jersey's attorney general hit Amazon with a federal antitrust suit Tuesday, alleging the company engineered its Delivery Service Partner program to create a "captive seller," then used its dominance to impose substandard pay, harsh working conditions and anti‑union tactics on thousands of last‑mile delivery drivers across the state.

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Google Accused Of Antitrust Behavior In Ad Tech Practices

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A rival technology company has accused Google of violating antitrust law by restricting competition in digital advertising markets.

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5th Circ. Hints Texas App Age-Check Law Needs More Review

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit panel wanted to know whether the lower court should have gone "provision by provision" before halting a Texas law that requires app store owners to block minors from downloading apps without parental consent, suggesting the lower court needed to do more while weighing the legislation's constitutionality.

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$15M Deal In PVC Pipe Price-Fixing Case Gets Initial OK

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday granted early approval to a $15 million deal purchasers struck with plastic pipe system supplier Pipelife Jet Stream, allowing it to soon exit antitrust litigation accusing major polyvinyl chloride pipe producers of fixing prices.

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Rising Star: King & Spalding's Lohr Beck

By Matthew Perlman

King & Spalding LLP's Lohr Beck is helping clients navigate cutting-edge competition issues, winning dismissal bids in algorithmic price-fixing and benchmarking software cases, earning her a spot among antitrust law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Broadcom Fails To Pause EU Demand For US-Privileged Docs

By Eddie Beaver

A European Union court has refused to suspend an order by the EU Commission requiring Broadcom Inc. to produce documents for an antitrust probe, finding that the technology company had failed to show a prima facie case that the commission could not demand information protected only under non-EU privilege rules.

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Athletes In Colo. Suit Claim NCAA Is Flouting Eligibility Order

By David Steele

The college athletes who were given a chance to play an extra season by a Colorado federal judge last week asked the court on Tuesday to allow transfers to other schools that the NCAA is attempting to block.

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Ex-Team Owner Says PR Baseball League Can't Escape Suit

By Alex Lawson

The former owner of a Puerto Rican baseball team is looking to keep his antitrust suit against the league afloat, telling a federal judge that the league's efforts to snuff out the case are premature.

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Search Rival, Advocates Back DOJ Against Google In DC Circ.

By Bryan Koenig

Academics, policy experts, advocacy groups and several rivals lent their voices Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Justice's defense of its monopolization win over Google, while urging the D.C. Circuit to strengthen the "relatively modest remedies" they say leave Google able to dominate both search and artificial intelligence.

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BofA, Other Banks Plan To Settle Mexican Bond-Rigging Case

By Jack McLoone

A Manhattan federal judge stayed a proposed class action brought by U.S. pension funds alleging that a group of Mexico-based units of global banking giants conspired to rig Mexican government bond prices after the two sides said they had reached a preliminary settlement agreement.

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Ace Hardware Seeks To Escape Price-Fixing Suit

By Matthew Perlman

Ace Hardware urged an Illinois federal court to toss a proposed class action accusing the retail cooperative of helping its member stores conspire to fix prices, saying the case attacks services the stores need to compete against Home Depot and others.

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AGs Can't Yet Get Discovery Into Live Nation's DOJ Deal

By Craig Clough

A New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request by some state attorneys general for discovery into the Justice Department's antitrust settlement reached midtrial with Live Nation, ruling that the scope of the request is "unclear" but the AGs can try again with "narrow and targeted requests."

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Hogan Lovells Adds Arnold & Porter Antitrust Atty In SF

By Emily Johnson

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader announced on Tuesday that it has added the vice chair of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's tech and media industry group to its San Francisco office, strengthening the firm's antitrust, competition and economic regulation practice.

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Why A Class Was Certified In Financial Aid Info-Sharing Case

The recent Illinois federal court decision in Corzo v. Brown University offers key guidance for defendants confronting class certification in antitrust matters, highlighting how typicality can be satisfied despite class members attending different universities, receiving different aid awards and being affected across different time periods, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.

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Brown Rudnick Adds 34 Attys, Will Open Silicon Valley Office

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Brown Rudnick LLP announced on Wednesday that it had lured a 34-attorney intellectual property litigation group from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP and would be opening a Silicon Valley office with many of those lawyers.

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Law Grad Employment Remains High As BigLaw Drives Hires

By Aebra Coe

Class of 2025 law school graduates posted near-record high employment rates, with large law firms hiring more graduates than any other industry category as federal government hiring experienced a significant decline, according to new data released Wednesday.

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These Firms Are Picking Up The Most PTAB Work

By Theresa Schliep

Intellectual property heavyweight Fish & Richardson PC remains the busiest firm in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as it again secured the top spot on a list of firms with the most PTAB trials over the past three years.

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Murdaugh Loses Jury Tampering Suit Against Ex-Court Clerk

By Jake Maher

A South Carolina federal judge on Wednesday dismissed disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh's jury tampering suit against a former court clerk who was found to have interfered in his murder trial, ruling there was no connection between his alleged damages and the ex-clerk's misconduct.

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New Mexico Joins States With Alternative Atty License Paths

By Jack Karp

Law school graduates will soon be able to earn their license to practice in New Mexico by working under an attorney's supervision and demonstrating their legal skills rather than by taking the bar exam, the state's Supreme Court chief justice told Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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New Mexico Says Blanche, DOJ Blocked Epstein Ranch Probe

By Lauren Berg

The state of New Mexico asked a Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday to force the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over unredacted Jeffrey Epstein investigative files, saying it needs the materials for its own investigation of alleged crimes at the late sex offender's Santa Fe County ranch.

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Texas Firm Lands $150M HHS Services Deal For Migrant Kids

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it has entered into a $150 million contract with a small Texas law firm to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children, raising concerns from former subcontractors about the firm's experience with immigration matters.

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Simpson Thacher Witness Takes Aim At PIPE Stocks Claim

By Madison Arnold

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP wrapped up its defense Wednesday to a Florida state malpractice suit from the founder of Patriot National Inc. over the firm's handling of a private investment in public equity transaction, with a stock market expert testifying that short selling stock allowed under the deal didn't lead to the insurance services company's downfall.

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Conn. Atty To Fork Over $3,500 For AI Errors In Taco TM Beef

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge imposed a $3,500 fine on a defense attorney who submitted two motions riddled with AI-generated mistakes in a taco restaurant's trademark battle, finding that although the lawyer expressed remorse and promised to make changes to his verification process, he still showed "subjective bad faith."

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Sierra Leone Isn't Responding To Its Own Attys, Judge Told

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A second law firm now says it is being iced out by the government of Sierra Leone in a yearslong legal battle that began over the country's dispute with a U.K.-based mining company.

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NY Legal Aid Union Averts Strike After 4 Months Of Talks

By Andrea Keckley

Another New York legal aid union has reached a deal with its organization's management, averting the possibility of a strike after its contract and those of four other unions expired at the end of June.

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CREXi Wants 9th Circ. To Undo Quinn Emanuel CoStar Row DQ

By Bryan Koenig

Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. doesn't want to replace Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP after a California federal judge disqualified the firm from defending a copyright infringement suit by CoStar, seeking Ninth Circuit intervention and a pause on the district court case.

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