A New Jersey federal court partially dismissed the state attorney general's antitrust suit against RealPage Inc. and 10 of the state's largest landlords, which alleges the parties colluded to raise rents and force residents to overpay for housing.
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RealPage, Landlords Partially Duck NJ Antitrust Suit

By Grace Dixon

A New Jersey federal court partially dismissed the state attorney general's antitrust suit against RealPage Inc. and 10 of the state's largest landlords, which alleges the parties colluded to raise rents and force residents to overpay for housing.

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Arbitration Association Must Face Suit Over Consumer Monopoly

By Caroline Simson

An Arizona federal judge ruled Tuesday that the American Arbitration Association must face a proposed class action accusing it of monopolizing the consumer arbitration services market, saying the suit provided sufficient allegations to "plausibly infer" that the institution engages in anticompetitive conduct.

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NAR Ducks Another Membership Rules Antitrust Suit

By Matthew Perlman

A Michigan federal court tossed a case challenging rules requiring brokers to be members of the National Association of Realtors and its local affiliates in order to access multiple listing services, saying courts have been reaching the same result in similar cases for over 40 years.

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AGs Put $10M Price Tag On Beating Kroger-Albertsons Merger

By Jared Foretek

The nine attorneys general who successfully sued to block Kroger's failed $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons requested over $10 million in attorney fees and litigation expenses Tuesday, arguing that the scale of the litigation and the more than $1 billion the grocery chains spent fighting it justified the amount.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Bryan Koenig

The Justice Department allowed Live Nation to keep Ticketmaster while state attorneys general continue to sue, a $14 billion Boston Scientific deal drew Federal Trade Commission scrutiny, state enforcers challenged Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, and a threatened FTC challenge forced the abandonment of a laser eye surgery deal.

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LITIGATION

Meta Loses Bid To Toss Photo App's Antitrust Case

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court has refused to toss a defunct photo-sharing app's antitrust case accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of using its monopoly in personal social networking to drive the app out of business, after the Second Circuit revived the case.

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Ill. Judge Clears Card Shuffler Antitrust Claims For Trial

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge largely denied cross motions for summary judgment in a suit alleging a gambling product company used sham patent litigation to shove competitors out of the automatic card shuffler market, and certified a class of casinos and other buyers claiming they suffered antitrust injuries as a result.

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Rocket Mortgage Seeks Toss Of Homebuyers' Antitrust Case

By Isaac Monterose

Rocket Companies Inc., subsidiary Rocket Mortgage LLC and other Rocket subsidiaries are urging a Michigan federal court to toss a proposed antitrust class action from homebuyers who claim the Rocket companies illegally provide business leads to real estate agents who tell homebuyers to pick Rocket to finance home purchases despite competing services that are better.

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Collision, Samsung Criticize Government's IP Injunction Take

By Dani Kass

Wireless communication network patent owner Collision Communications and alleged infringer Samsung Electronics both pushed back on the federal government's arguments in its intervention in their $445.5 million Eastern District of Texas litigation, which it used as a forum to encourage the use of injunctions.

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Buyer Says Seller Undermined $58M Food Business Sale

By Jarek Rutz

A worldwide food importer and distributor has filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court accusing a former business owner of selling his food distribution company for $58 million and then unlawfully undermining the business through deception, obstruction and direct competition.

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Realtek Denied $1.5M In Fees For Semiconductor Patent Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A Texas federal judge has denied Realtek Semiconductor Corp.'s request for $1.5 million in attorney fees despite it being a prevailing party in a patent infringement suit, saying the accusing company's agreement with a Realtek rival to sue Realtek for $1 million did not make the case "exceptional" enough for the legal fees.

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4th Circ. Upholds Prior Settlement Bars Clear Touch TM Suit

By Adam Lidgett

The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday ruled that it won't undo a lower court's decision tossing interactive technology products company Clear Touch Interactive Inc.'s federal intellectual property claims against a former reseller, saying the case was blocked by an earlier settlement agreement between the parties.

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POLICY & REGULATION

FCC Strives For 'Supremacy' In US Drone Manufacturing

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's leadership wants the public to weigh in on how regulators can help the U.S. private sector reach global dominance in drone manufacturing and operations.

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PEOPLE

White & Case Expands In Brussels With Amazon Hire

By Ashish Sareen

White & Case LLP has recruited a senior in-house lawyer at Amazon for its office in Brussels, the law firm's latest technology-focused hire globally.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Key Takeaways From The 2026 ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting

Last week's American Bar Association Spring Meeting revealed an antitrust landscape defined by heightened friction and tension — between federal and state enforcers, domestic and international regimes, competing political visions, and traditional enforcement tools and novel challenges, say attorneys at Skadden.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Bondi Out As Attorney General After Contentious Time At DOJ

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday Attorney General Pam Bondi will be leaving her post. 

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Goldstein Allowed To Move Out After Marriage Falls Apart

By Jared Foretek

A Maryland federal judge on Thursday allowed SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein to relocate for the duration of his home confinement, after Goldstein's attorneys said his marriage had fallen apart and it no longer "makes sense" for Goldstein and his wife to share a residence.

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Raskin Blasts DOJ Bid To Shield Attys From State Bar Probes

By Courtney Bublé

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said Thursday the U.S. Department of Justice's endeavor to preempt state bar investigations of department attorneys is a "get out of jail free" card.

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DLA Piper, Vax Refuser Reach Deal To End Religious Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

DLA Piper has struck a deal to wrap up a Christian former employee's lawsuit claiming he was fired for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine because of his religious beliefs, an Illinois federal judge said Thursday.

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Feds Say Habeas Ruling Could Spur More 'Illegal Orders'

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration has asked the Fourth Circuit to reverse a district ruling that upheld a standing order from Maryland federal judges barring immediate removal or transfer of immigrant detainees, arguing the ruling sets a dangerous precedent for district court standing orders.

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Schneider Wallace Fights Uphill For Bigger Cut Of $75M Fees

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal magistrate judge appeared skeptical Thursday about 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 seems fair.

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Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Stymies Paul Weiss, ACLU Fee Bids

By Carolyn Muyskens

American Civil Liberties Union and Paul Weiss attorneys who successfully eased restrictions on voting by mail in Puerto Rico during the COVID-19 pandemic cannot collect fees for their work because they were discharged in Puerto Rico's bankruptcy proceeding, the First Circuit has ruled.

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Process Server ABC Legal Inks $2.5M Deal Over Cyber Breach

By Ben Adlin

Seattle-based ABC Legal Services LLC, which bills itself as the nation's largest network of legal process servers, would pay $2.5 million under a tentative deal to settle workers' putative class action claiming a 2024 cyberattack exposed their personal information, the plaintiffs told a Washington federal court Wednesday.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen data giant Sportrader face action from software company Altenar over alleged market abuse, Mexican billionaire Ricardo Pliego sue a man who allegedly defrauded him out of $415 million, and Warner Bros. bring a copyright claim against a YouTuber who leaked set footage of the upcoming Harry Potter series. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K. 

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Angeli & Calfo

Arnold & Porter

Astraea Group Ltd.

Bartko Pavia

Birketts LLP

Bryan Cave

Butzel Long

Cafferty Clobes

Caldwell Cassady

Campbell Johnston

Capsticks Solicitors LLP

Clement & Murphy

Clifford Law Offices

Clyde & Co

Cohen Milstein

Cole Schotz

Constantine Cannon

Cravath Swaine

Croke Fairchild

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

Dickinson Wright

Doyle Clayton

Federman & Sherwood

Fieldfisher

Fraser Trebilcock

Gallagher Evelius

Geradin Partners

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Goodwin Procter

Hagens Berman

Hausfeld LLP

Hogan Lovells

Hughes Hubbard

Jones Day

Kellogg Hansen

Klein & Sheridan

Kobre & Kim

LK Law Pty Ltd

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Brisbois

Linnell & Associates

Lowenstein Sandler

Marshall Gerstein

Mathys & Squire

McCollom D'Emilio

McDonald Hopkins

McNaul Ebel

Mehdi Firm

Miller Canfield

Miller Fair

Morgan Lewis

Much Shelist

Munger Tolles

Ogden Murphy

Orrick Herrington

Paul Weiss

Perkins Law Firm

Peters & Peters Solicitors

Quinn Emanuel

Reynolds Porter

Russ August

Saiber LLC

Schneider Wallace

Sheppard Mullin

Skadden Arps

Smith Hudson Law

Stephenson Harwood

Stoel Rives

Strauss Borrelli

Walsh Pizzi

Ward Hadaway

Weil Gotshal

White & Case

Wiggin LLP

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Wyche PA

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.

ABC Legal Services Inc.

ANSYS Inc.

AT&T Inc.

AXA XL Ltd.

Alcon Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Airlines Group Inc.

American Arbitration Association

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

Anduril Industries

AvalonBay Communities Inc.

BAE Systems PLC

Ballard Partners Inc.

Boston Scientific Corp.

Cammeby's Management Co. LLC

Casino Queen Inc.

Cinven Ltd.

Clario

Costco Wholesale Corp.

Cottrell Inc.

Dnata

Duke Energy Corp.

EQT AB

Enviri Corp.

Federalist Society

Google LLC

Hawaiian Holdings Inc.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Home Box Office Inc.

Inflection AI

Instagram Inc.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters

IonQ Inc.

Johnson Controls International PLC

Juniper Networks Inc.

KKR & Co. Inc.

Laird Norton Wetherby

Lendlease Corp.

Liberty Global Inc.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Light & Wonder Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

MediaTek Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Meggitt PLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

National Association of Realtors

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Netflix Inc.

Nordic Capital Ltd.

Nucor Corp

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Penumbra Inc.

Platinum Equity LLC

RealPage Inc.

Rocket Cos.

Rocket Homes

Rocket Mortgage LLC

Russo Development LLC

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Scientific Games Corp.

SkyWater Technology Inc.

Skydance Media LLC

SoftBank Group Corp.

Spokeo Inc.

Sportradar Group AG

Spotify Technology SA

Sun Country Airlines

Sutter Health

Synopsys Inc.

Tegna Inc.

Teleflex Inc.

The Bozzuto Group Inc.

The DIRECTV Group Inc.

The Kroger Co.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd.

United States Steel Corp.

United Wholesale Mortgage LLC

Veolia Environnement SA

Vitol Inc.

Volkswagen AG

Walmart Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Yale University

YouTube Inc.

eBay Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Department of Justice

Companies House

Competition and Markets Authority

Court of Justice of the EU

Delaware Court of Chancery

European Commission

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

French Competition Authority

HM Revenue & Customs

Illinois Attorney General's Office

Nevada Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New Mexico Department of Justice

New York Attorney General's Office

North Carolina Attorney General's Office

North Carolina Utilities Commission

Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia

Oregon Department of Justice

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

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

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

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

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 Western District of Texas

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

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

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court