California Attorney General Rob Bonta pushed back Monday against Paramount Skydance Corp. CEO David Ellison's contention that a challenge of Paramount's Warner Bros. Discovery deal was politically motivated, saying the case is a "straight up antitrust enforcement case."
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Calif. AG Says Paramount Deal Challenge Is About Antitrust

By Matthew Perlman

California Attorney General Rob Bonta pushed back Monday against Paramount Skydance Corp. CEO David Ellison's contention that a challenge of Paramount's Warner Bros. Discovery deal was politically motivated, saying the case is a "straight up antitrust enforcement case."

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Fox Gives DOJ More Time To Review $22B Roku Deal

By Matthew Perlman

Fox Corp. has given antitrust enforcers at the U.S. Department of Justice additional time to review its planned purchase of Roku, a deal that values the television streaming platform operator at around $22 billion.

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Verisk Told It Can't Abandon $2.35B AccuLynx Deal

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that data analytics and insurance technology company Verisk Analytics Inc. improperly walked away from its $2.35 billion acquisition of roofing software company AccuLynx and must keep pursuing regulatory approval for the deal.

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Michel, Startups Back Injunction Bid In Samsung Patent Case

By Ryan Davis

Former Chief Federal Circuit Judge Paul Michel, patent law professors and a group of startup companies on Monday backed Collision Communications Inc.'s bid for a permanent injunction on Samsung products found to infringe its patents, saying courts have misread U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

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Drugmakers Lose 2nd Bid To Appeal Ex-Prosecutor DQ Rebuff

By Matthew Santoni

A former Connecticut prosecutor and his current firm Lowey Dannenberg PC can keep representing insurers Humana Inc. and Molina Healthcare Inc. in an antitrust lawsuit against generic-drug makers, after the judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation rejected a second attempt to appeal her denial of disqualification.

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RISING STAR

Rising Star: Wilkinson Stekloff's Roxana Guidero

By Bryan Koenig

Roxana "Roxy" Guidero of Wilkinson Stekloff LLP helped the NFL beat a nearly $5 billion jury verdict, earning her a spot as one of the antitrust law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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INTERNATIONAL

PayPoint Faces £1.5M Bill After Rival's Minimal Antitrust Win

By Eddie Beaver

PayPoint PLC faces paying around £1.5 million ($2 million) toward a competitor's legal bill after losing an antitrust case in which the rival recovered just 0.1% of the £172 million in damages it originally sought.

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LITIGATION

UWM Sues REIT For Over $500M, Claiming Merger Sabotage

By Isaac Monterose

UWM Holdings Corp. and subsidiary UWM Acquisitions 1 LLC hit Two Harbors Investment Corp. with a more than $500 million suit on Monday, accusing the real estate investment trust in Maryland federal court of deliberately sabotaging a $1.3 billion all-stock merger deal.

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Tennessee Player's NCAA Antitrust Suit Put On Hold

By Elaine Briseño

A federal judge has paused a lawsuit brought by a University of Tennessee men's basketball player alleging the NCAA's eligibility rules violate antitrust laws while the organization seeks consolidation with similar litigation.

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CREXi Can't Stay CoStar Case For Quinn Emanuel DQ Appeal

By Matthew Perlman

A California federal court rejected a bid Monday from Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, for a stay in CoStar's copyright case while CREXi looks to undo the disqualification of its attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.

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Simon & Simon Can Shield Some Info In Uber, FedEx Suit

By Rose Krebs

A Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled that Simon & Simon PC can redact the identities of certain personal injury claimants and compensation paid to referral attorneys as it defends claims lodged by Uber and FedEx accusing the firm of a medical records falsification scheme meant to boost injury claims.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Trump Picks Ex-Personal Lawyer As New White House Counsel

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's incoming White House counsel is a former personal attorney for the president who is already working for the White House and was at the U.S. Department of Justice during his first term.

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Ill. Gov. Signs Bill Restricting PE Role In Legal Industry

By Emma Cueto

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill designed to target nonlawyer ownership of law firms, outlawing fee sharing with out-of-state alternative business structures and attempting to place restrictions on law firms' use of managed services organizations.

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Spa Fights 9th Circ.'s 'Swinging Dicks' Order At High Court

By Jeff Overley

The Ninth Circuit's rejection of a spa's religious objections to serving transgender customers is incompatible with several major precedents, according to a U.S. Supreme Court petition filed Monday in litigation that soared in prominence when dozens of circuit judges decried a salacious dissent.

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Biz Owners Appeal Morgan Lewis Win In Tax Shelter Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A pair of business owners asked the Florida Supreme Court to reverse a decision affirming judgment in favor of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in a dispute over whether the law firm had routed income through illegal tax shelters.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Addleshaw Goddard

Ashurst Perkins

Baker Botts

Blank Rome

Boyden Gray

Caldwell Cassady

Clark Hill

Clement & Murphy

Covington & Burling

Cuneo Gilbert

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Dechert LLP

Dhillon Law Group

Farmer Brownstein

Fried Frank

Garza Law Firm PLLC

Gibson Dunn

Greenberg Traurig

Hill Ward Henderson

Holland & Knight

Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel & Burns LLP

Kasowitz LLP

King & Spalding

Latham & Watkins

Legal Strategies PC

Linklaters LLP

Lowey Dannenberg

Milbank LLP

Monckton Chambers

Morgan Lewis

Morris Nichols

O'Melveny & Myers

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Saxton & Stump

Schneider Wallace

Shinder Cantor

Simon & Simon PC

Sperling Kenny

Wilkinson Stekloff

Wilson Sonsini

Winston Taylor

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Allergan PLC

Alliance Defending Freedom

Amazon.com Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

American International Group Inc.

Apple Inc.

BDO LLP

BDO USA LLP

Boy Scouts of America

CRC Advisors

Cable News Network Inc.

CoStar Group Inc.

Cottrell Inc.

CrossCountry Mortgage Inc.

DivX LLC

FedEx Corp.

Federalist Society

Fox Corp.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Humana Inc.

Juniper Networks Inc.

Lambda Legal Defense & Educational Fund

LinkedIn Corp.

LoopNet Inc.

Molina Healthcare Inc.

NFL Enterprises LLC

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Netflix Inc.

Netlist Inc.

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Pacific Justice Institute

Roku Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

ServiceTitan Inc.

Skydance Media LLC

The DIRECTV Group Inc.

Two Harbors Investment Corp.

Uber Technologies Inc.

United Wholesale Mortgage LLC

Verisk Analytics Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

eBay Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Trade Commission

Florida Supreme Court

National Capital Planning Commission

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

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

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

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

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

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

Washington Attorney General's Office