Zillow Preview Appeases Compass Enough To Drop Ban Suit

By Bryan Koenig

Compass dropped its New York federal court antitrust lawsuit against Zillow on Wednesday, satisfied that a new "preview" feature for pre-market home listings was enough of a departure from a contested rule that banned listings from appearing on Zillow if they had been marketed elsewhere for more than a day.

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FTC Says Amazon Seeks 'Impossible' Standard For Sanctions

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission pressed a Washington federal judge Tuesday to sanction Amazon.com for using autodeleting Signal chats and deleting raw meeting notes to hide evidence of company policies that created an artificial pricing floor across online retail stores, arguing Amazon is fighting the motion by inventing an "impossible-to-meet standard" for imposing sanctions.

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Shipbuilders Cut Deals To End No-Poach Claims

By Matthew Perlman

Affiliates of Huntington Ingalls, Marinette Marine and Serco have reached settlements resolving the claims against them in a case accusing some of the country's biggest shipbuilders of conspiring to suppress naval architect and engineer wages.

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Nippon Permanently Ducks Consumers' US Steel Merger Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge has given Nippon Steel a permanent reprieve from consumers challenging its now-completed purchase of U.S. Steel Corp., concluding the lawsuit still hasn't made the connection from the merger's potential impacts on steel to the prices consumers spend buying steel-containing products and riding in steel-containing vehicles.

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Capital One Beats Consumer Suit Over Discover Deal, Again

By Nadia Dreid

Capital One has persuaded a California federal judge once again to squash a suit brought by credit card users who say that the company's $35 billion purchase of Discover is bad news for them and ought to be unwound, but the court is giving the consumers one last chance.

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Food Cos. Get Another Shot At David Protein Antitrust Case

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court is letting low-calorie food producers take another shot at their antitrust claims accusing protein bar-maker David Protein of refusing to sell them a fat replacement ingredient after purchasing the ingredient's only supplier.

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College Athletes Continue Challenge Of NCAA Eligibility Rules

By Elaine Briseño

A group of college football players hoping to extend their playing careers by challenging existing eligibility rules have criticized the NCAA's efforts to toss their antitrust suit, arguing in Tennessee federal court that the organization has overstated the legal requirements for defining a relevant market.

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Judge Preserves CBD Co.'s Contract Breach Spat

By Jonathan Capriel

A hemp and CBD company run by North Carolina State Rep. John Bell won't get a default win on its $1.6 million counterclaim against Texas-based ex-business partners who accused it of stealing trade secrets and using political connections to threaten their executives with jail time, a North Carolina federal judge has ruled.

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BMG Launches Copyright Suit Against Anthropic

By Elliot Weld

Music publisher BMG has hit artificial intelligence startup Anthropic with a copyright infringement suit alleging it made unauthorized use of recordings to train its Claude AI models, adding to a heap of legacy media companies accusing AI firms of infringement.

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How Internal Reporting Could Benefit Antitrust Whistleblowing

As the Justice Department's new antitrust whistleblower program stands to raise questions over the interaction between rewards and corporate leniency, incentivizing internal reporting first could increase the likelihood that the Antitrust Division receives the high-quality evidence needed to successfully prosecute cartel cases, says Daniel Oakes at Axinn.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: The Human Element

Law school teaches you to quickly apply intellect and logic when handling a legal issue, but every fact pattern also involves a person, making the ability to balance expertise with empathy critical to the growth of relationships with clients, colleagues and adversaries, says Rachel Adcox at Adcox Strategies.

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Sitting Judges Take Stand Over Threats Growing 'Ordinary'

By Jake Maher

On the heels of an ethics opinion giving them wider latitude to speak publicly, sitting federal judges brought attention Thursday to the increasing threats against them and their family members, warning about the dangers of such threats becoming "ordinary."

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Anatomy Of A Citation Hallucination: AI Edit, Associate Review

By Rachel Riley

Counsel for consumers in a supplement labeling lawsuit against Amazon responded Wednesday to a Seattle federal judge's order to explain an AI-hallucinated citation, saying the error was introduced by a generative artificial intelligence tool used to "harmonize" drafts of a brief, then missed by a fifth-year Boies Schiller associate tasked with checking the citations.

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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Reach Deal On Fee Settlements

By Vince Sullivan

The Office of the U.S. Trustee and law firm Jackson Walker LLP on Wednesday resolved the bankruptcy watchdog's opposition to a series of settlements tied to a romantic relationship between a former Jackson Walker attorney and a now-retired bankruptcy judge.

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Judge Quashes Subpoena Of 5 Firms That Repped Twitter

By Rae Ann Varona

A Delaware federal court ruled Thursday that six former Twitter employees cannot subpoena five law firms that represented the social media company in connection with its acquisition by Elon Musk, rejecting the employees' "conclusory allegations" that the company and Musk used the firms to make false promises of severance benefits.

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Nomination For New DOJ Fraud Chief Heads To Senate Floor

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Colin McDonald for the new position of assistant attorney general for fraud was sent to the full Senate on Thursday, after the Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 along party lines to advance his nomination.

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Judge Digs Into Counsel Over 'Astronomically High' Fee Bid

By Nadia Dreid

Attorneys who represented classes of people who say they received harassing phone calls from real estate agents in violation of federal telemarketing laws are asking for way too much of the $20 million settlement, according to the California federal judge who tore into them Wednesday.

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DOJ Antitrust Head Tells Staff: Don't Worry About Criticism

By Bryan Koenig

The acting head of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division said Thursday that he pays no heed to criticism of the agency and tells staff to do the same, while asserting in Washington, D.C., remarks that there's no better time to come work for the DOJ.

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Fired 'Arctic Frost' Agents Accuse FBI Of Political Retribution

By Dorothy Atkins

Two former FBI agents who worked on the "Arctic Frost" investigation into President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss have accused the government of abruptly firing them in an unconstitutional act of "political retribution."

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