Jury Finds Live Nation Monopolized Concert Ticketing

By Stewart Bishop

Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary harmed competition in the live entertainment sector by willfully monopolizing ticketing services to major concert venues and unlawfully tying artists' use of large amphitheaters to Live Nation's promotional services, a Manhattan federal jury found on Wednesday.

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Ad Agencies Settle FTC's 'Brand Safety' Boycott Claims

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission reached a deal on Wednesday with WPP, Publicis and Dentsu over concerns that "brand safety" standards allowed them to collude to steer ad money away from disfavored platforms.

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Pest Control Co. Ends Noncompetes After FTC Pressure

By Matthew Perlman

Pest control company Rollins Inc. agreed with the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to stop enforcing noncompete agreements that could prevent more than 18,000 workers from taking a job at a competitor.

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Chair Says FTC Shouldn't Be 'All-Purpose AI Regulator'

By Bryan Koenig

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency is committed to using its existing authorities to protect Americans from deceptive artificial intelligence claims and AI-facilitated fraud, while arguing the FTC shouldn't serve as an overarching regulator for the technology.

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2nd Agri Stats Settlement OK'd In Turkey Price-Fixing Suit

By Lauraann Wood

A federal judge overseeing turkey price-fixing litigation in Illinois gave the initial green light Wednesday to a settlement Agri Stats Inc. struck to end purchasers' accusations that the company's informational reports helped facilitate the allegedly anticompetitive conspiracy, marking the deal's second approval in as many days.

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Arbitration Assoc. Says Monopoly Suit Poses 'Massive Risks'

By Rae Ann Varona

The American Arbitration Association has urged an Arizona federal court to reconsider a ruling that allowed a monopoly suit against the association to proceed, saying that sustaining antitrust claims against the arbitration provider based on template arbitration clauses on its website poses "massive risks" for millions of customer arbitration contracts.

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NCAA Changes Prize Money Rule, Puts Eligibility Fix On Hold

By David Steele

The NCAA on Wednesday adopted new rules that allow incoming athletes to keep prize money and still be able to compete in college, and lets prospects enter their sports' pro draft without costing them their eligibility.

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Lawyers Race To Find Class Rep To Keep Rail Fare Case Alive

By Joanne Faulkner

Lawyers pursuing a £400 million ($542 million) million collective action against rail operator Govia Thameslink must appoint a new class representative and secure funding by July or the claim will be decertified, the Competition Appeal Tribunal said Wednesday.

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AA Hit With £5M Fine Over Hidden Driving Lesson Fees

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The U.K.'s competition watchdog has fined the AA, the motoring association, almost £5 million ($6.8 million) after finding that lesson booking fees were hidden from learner drivers.

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Antitrust Suit Targets CoStar Noncompetes, Cross-Post Limits

By Nate Beck

CoStar Group faces a lawsuit in Virginia federal court alleging that the real estate information service has for years sought to prevent cross-listings by customers and shut out would-be competitors through acquisitions and noncompete deals with large brokerages, in what plaintiffs' counsel claims is the first such antitrust class action against the company. 

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Amneal Trims But Can't Nix AGs' Drug Price-Fixing Suit

By Lauren Berg

There is enough evidence from which a jury could conclude that Amneal Pharmaceuticals participated in a conspiracy to fix the price of an epilepsy medication, but not enough to show it participated in the overarching antitrust conspiracy alleged by dozens of state attorneys general, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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Amazon Can't Nix MIT Economist Input On Antitrust Case

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal judge has shot down Amazon's bid to rule out a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor's opinions backing proposed class antitrust claims, finding the expert used a "peer reviewed economic model based on real-world transactional data" to conclude that Amazon's "anti-discounting policies" heightened prices in other online marketplaces.

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Zillow, Redfin Can't Use 4th Circ. Ruling In Antitrust Suit

By Isaac Monterose

The Federal Trade Commission and multiple states on Wednesday filed a proposed response pushing back on Zillow and Redfin Corp.'s bid to cite a published Fourth Circuit decision they say supports their attempt to dismiss the antitrust suit brought by the agency and states.

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Landlord Wants Out Of Fraud Claim In NJ AG's RealPage Suit

By Grace Dixon

A New Jersey landlord is urging a federal court to revisit part of a March decision and dismiss claims against it under a state consumer fraud statute amid the New Jersey attorney general's antitrust suit against RealPage Inc. and 10 of the state's largest landlords.

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Head Shaver Co. Seeks Toss Of Rival's Patent Suit

By Elliot Weld

A company that makes head shavers asked a North Carolina federal judge Wednesday to throw out a case alleging that it infringed one patent and one design patent held by a rival, saying the suit has no chance of plausibly showing that its products are infringing.

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NC Judge Won't Undo $4M Philips Copyright Verdict

By Elliot Weld

A North Carolina federal judge has refused to erase a $4 million jury verdict against independent service organization Transtate Equipment Co. for violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying trial evidence provided a "firm basis" to support the jury's statutory damages award.

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Fla. Judge Told Ex-CEO Drove Energy Drinks Co. Into Ch. 11

By David Minsky

A liquidating trust Wednesday urged a Florida federal bankruptcy judge to hold the former CEO of the company that makes Bang Energy drinks liable for breaching fiduciary duty, arguing that a multimillion-dollar judgment stemming from his violation of a trademark settlement partially contributed to the business' Chapter 11.

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Judge Limits Evidence In Revived Deloitte Trade Secret Case

By Ivan Moreno

A West Virginia federal judge has narrowed the evidence prosecutors can present at trial in a revived trade secret case against two former Deloitte employees, curtailing use of an internal investigative report from the company they joined and restricting how "trade secrets" may be used to describe allegedly confidential materials.

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Mexican Businessman Cleared In Texas Pemex Bribes Case

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Texas federal judge has acquitted a Mexican businessman living in the U.S. whom a jury convicted of bribing foreign officials to secure business from Mexico's state-owned oil company, saying prosecutors didn't provide the translators who interpreted evidence at trial for cross-examination.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Where Do You Stand?

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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Ex-DOJ Antitrust Atty On Google Case Joins Wilson Sonsini

By Bonnie Eslinger

A lead attorney on the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's monopolization cases against Google LLC who left the agency last week joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday as a partner.

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Opinion

CBP's $166B Tariff Refund Portal Needs 4 Safeguards

Before launching its automated web portal to process tariff-refund disbursements on April 20, U.S. Customs and Border Protection should apply the expensive lessons learned from the pandemic-era employee retention credit, says Peter Gariepy at RubinBrown.

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Mintz Consulting Arm Hires Ex-HHS Official, Health Policy Pro

By Jack Rodgers

ML Strategies, a consulting subsidiary of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC, has hired a former federal health policy director at consulting firm Guidehouse who brings almost a decade of experience in senior roles with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Katten Partner Rejoins Epstein Becker In DC For 3rd Time

By Jack Rodgers

Epstein Becker Green LLP has rehired, for the third time, a healthcare transactional attorney who focuses his practice on guiding hospital systems, private equity-backed entities and professional practices on transactional matters and regulatory compliance.

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Higher Ed Group Seeks Fees After Beating DOE Research Cap

By Julie Manganis

An organization of public and private research universities has asked a Massachusetts federal judge to award attorney fees and costs in a successful challenge to a U.S. Department of Energy limit on reimbursements for indirect costs of grant-funded research, the third such request since last fall.

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Foley Hoag Adds Experienced Diplomat As Partner

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Foley Hoag LLP announced on Wednesday that it had hired the former U.S. ambassador to Hungary as a partner at its New York office.

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NJ US Atty's Office Turmoil Doesn't Nix Conviction, Judge Rules

By Carla Baranauckas

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a New Jersey criminal defendant's attempt to dismiss his conviction and disqualify the state's top federal prosecutor, holding that the appointment of the current U.S. attorney complies with federal law and that any earlier defects in leadership do not warrant dismissal.

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Optimum Defends Antitrust Suit Against Apollo, BlackRock

By Alex Wittenberg

Apollo, Ares, BlackRock and other financial giants are colluding to block Optimum Communications Inc. from negotiating a debt refinancing to avert bankruptcy, acting as a "cartel" and locking Optimum out of credit markets, Optimum said in a brief opposing the investors' bid to dismiss its antitrust suit in New York.

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Judge Doubts Broad Shift In Immigration Hearing Access

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge appeared unconvinced Thursday by a human rights group's claim that the public is getting less access to immigration court hearings in Minnesota during the second Trump administration.

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