Google has settled a price-comparison company's claim that the technology giant abused its dominance in the online search market by steering users away from the rival's website and toward Google's own comparison-shopping service, a London tribunal said Monday.
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Google Settles Price Comparison Site's Search Bias Claim

By Eddie Beaver

Google has settled a price-comparison company's claim that the technology giant abused its dominance in the online search market by steering users away from the rival's website and toward Google's own comparison-shopping service, a London tribunal said Monday.

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Pepsi, Frito-Lay Accuse Sugar Companies Of Price Fixing

By Susan Smiley

Prominent food and beverage companies including Pepsi, Quaker Oats, Bimbo Bakeries and Frito-Lay filed an antitrust lawsuit in Minnesota federal court Friday alleging that major sugar refineries and producers have been involved in a price-fixing scheme since 2019.

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Apple Accused Of Trying To 'Stifle' £785M App Antitrust Claim

By Ronan Barnard

Lawyers representing app developers suing Apple in a £785 million ($1 billion) group action accused the tech giant of trying to strangle the action by asking for "an oppressive level of disclosure" in a London antitrust tribunal Monday.

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FTC Reaches Deal With Corteva In Pesticides Rebate Case

By Matthew Perlman

Corteva told a North Carolina federal court Monday that it reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission in a case accusing the pesticide maker of blocking competition from generic rivals through the use of loyalty rebates.

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AbbVie Seeks Block On Alkem Generic Constipation Drug

By Gianna Ferrarin

AbbVie Inc. and collaborator Ironwood Pharmaceuticals urged a New Jersey federal court to bar India-based generic-drug maker Alkem Laboratories from selling generic versions of their branded constipation drug while associated patents are active, arguing Alkem would violate patent law by doing so.

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Epic Says Google Wants To Hide Rival App Stores In Search

By Lauren Berg

Epic Games and Google asked the California federal judge overseeing the gaming giant's antitrust battle against the tech giant to resolve a dispute over whether the court's injunction requires rival app stores to be shown in Play Store search results or whether Google can "relegate" rivals to a separate page.

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Basketball Player Seeks Trial Delay Over New NCAA Eligibility

By Elaine Briseño

A University of Tennessee men's basketball player asked a federal judge to delay the trial in his lawsuit against the NCAA, saying a recent rule change extending the eligibility of college athletes has affected the legal landscape of his case.

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Hygiene Co. Can't Fight FTC's Need To Back Up COVID Claims

By Bryan Koenig

Xylitol-based hygiene products company Xlear can't challenge the Federal Trade Commission's general insistence that companies "substantiate" health claims like COVID-19 protections, because the FTC isn't currently suing over those claims, a Utah federal judge ruled Monday.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving restrictive covenants, corporate governance, trade secrets, real estate investments, receiverships, and books and records demands.

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LITIGATION

Chobani Can't Escape Danone's Coffee TM Suit

By Adam Lidgett

A New York federal judge on Monday refused to toss Danone's unregistered trademark infringement suit against Chobani over use of the phrase "Bright & Mellow," saying Danone plausibly backed up its argument that the mark was not simply generic.

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GoodPop, JonnyPops Trade Blows In Fruit Pop False Ad Fight

By Bonnie Eslinger

GoodPop and JonnyPops have both filed summary judgment bids in a false advertising battle in Texas federal court that was filed two years ago by GoodPop, each arguing that their rival's claims over their respective frozen pops' fruit and sugar content can be tossed without going to trial.

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Players Group Says Power Tiff Doesn't Hurt Tennis Orgs. Case

By Bryan Koenig

The Professional Tennis Players Association pushed back Friday on assertions by professional tennis' governing bodies that an internal PTPA power struggle shows that it has no members and thus no standing to sue them in New York federal court for allegedly blocking competing tournaments.

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Regeneron Says Drug Approval Irrelevant In Antitrust Case

By Matthew Perlman

Regeneron told a Delaware federal court the recent regulatory approval of a new cholesterol drug is irrelevant to its case accusing Amgen of bundling Repatha with other medications, as the court mulls an injunction bid following Regeneron's $407 million jury win.

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Bus Co. Settles Bid-Rigging Claims For $2.4M

By Julie Manganis

A national student transportation company will pay $2.4 million to settle allegations that two Massachusetts subsidiaries colluded with another bus company to allocate contracts in three Greater Boston communities, the state attorney general's office announced Monday.

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ENFORCEMENT

Live Nation, DOJ Say States Have Enough Discovery Into Deal

By James Boyle

The U.S. Department of Justice has joined with Live Nation to resist a discovery request by a bipartisan group of state attorneys general seeking more information about a settlement the federal government reached with the company in the middle of an antitrust trial.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Judges On AI: Examining Administrative, Organizational Uses

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas examines how artificial intelligence could transform a court's ability to deal with administrative work and organize materials when preparing for hearings or drafting opinions, thereby affording judges more time to resolve contested issues.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Brief

Milbank Issues Bonuses To Associates, Special Counsel

By Andrea Keckley

Milbank LLP is continuing to lead the way on bonuses, confirming Monday it has issued a round of special bonuses ranging from $6,000 for the class of 2026 and 2025 associates to $25,000 for the class of 2021 associates and beyond.

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Cooley Owes $25.4M Judgment To NJ Biotech Co. Founder

By Brian Steele

A New Jersey state court on Monday entered a $25.4 million judgment against Cooley LLP after a jury found the multinational firm had committed malpractice in its representation of a biotech founder who said his own lawyers assisted in shoving him out of his company.

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ABA Says Feds' Susman Godfrey DQ Bid Is More Intimidation

By Lauren Berg

The American Bar Association on Monday urged the D.C. federal judge overseeing its lawsuit challenging 2025 executive orders targeting law firms to reject the Trump administration's bid to have Susman Godfrey LLP disqualified as plaintiffs' counsel, calling it the latest "effort to intimidate" the American legal profession.

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Quinn Emanuel's Ethics Training 'Promising,' Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Monday approved a court-ordered ethics training program prepared by Quinn Emanuel in the wake of misrepresentations the firm made concerning an expert in a false advertising suit brought by Guardant Health against its client Natera, saying the firm had designed an "extremely promising" eight-hour program.

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Simpson Thacher Atty Says Patriot Nat'l Founder Sank Co.

By Madison Arnold

A Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner wrapped up her testimony Monday in a Florida state malpractice trial brought by the founder of Patriot National Inc., telling the jury that the founder was willing to forgo establishing a floor on the value of so-called Series B warrants, which he says contributed to the company's demise.

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300+ Public Defenders Strike In The Bronx

By Andrea Keckley and Daniel Moritz-Rabson

More than 300 attorneys and staff with the Bronx Defenders Union went on strike Monday, one year after the last time the union walked off the job.

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Comey Says Seashell Post No Threat To Trump

By Abigail Harrison

Former FBI Director James Comey urged a North Carolina federal court Monday to dismiss an indictment stemming from a social media post he made last year, arguing the post doesn't constitute a "true threat" to President Donald Trump.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Arnold & Porter

Axinn

Ballard Spahr

Botkin Chiarello

Brick Court Chambers

Bristows LLP

Burns Charest

Conrad & Scherer

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

Debevoise & Plimpton

Faegre Drinker

Fox Rothschild

Garza Law Firm PLLC

Gibson Dunn

Gish PLLC

Hausfeld LLP

Holland & Knight

Hueston Hennigan

Keller Anderle

Latham & Watkins

Long & Levit

Mazie Slater

McCarter & English

Michael Best & Friedrich

Milbank LLP

Monckton Chambers

Morgan Lewis

Munger Tolles

One Essex Court

Orrick Herrington

Paul Weiss

Price Parkinson

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Ropes & Gray

Scott&Scott

Selendy Gay

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Stearns Weaver

Susman Godfrey

Weil Gotshal

White & Case

Wilentz Goldman

Wilkinson Stekloff

Williams & Connolly

Winston Taylor

Young Conaway

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ATP Tour Inc.

AbbVie Inc.

Alkem Laboratories Ltd.

Allergan PLC

American Bar Association

Amgen Inc.

Apple Inc.

Applied Medical Resources Corp.

Association of Tennis Professionals

Beacon Mobility

Bimbo Bakeries USA Inc.

Boehringer Ingelheim Corp.

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc.

Brooklyn Defender Services

Cars.com LLC

Center for Family Representation Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Chobani LLC

Clario

Corteva Inc.

Costco Wholesale Corp.

Ennis Inc.

Epic Games Inc.

Fortrea Inc.

Frito-Lay Inc.

Google LLC

Groupe Danone

Guardant Health Inc.

Hillshire Brands Co.

Information Inc.

Instagram Inc.

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Jenzabar Inc.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Louis Dreyfus Holding B.V.

Marriott International Inc.

McLane Co. Inc.

Medtronic PLC

Merck & Co. Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Natera Inc.

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem

OrbiMed Advisors LLC

Papa John's International Inc.

Patriot National Inc.

Pizza Hut Inc.

Quaker Oats Company Inc.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Starbucks Corp.

StubHub Inc.

Syngenta AG

Tennis Australia Ltd.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

United States Tennis Association Inc.

United Therapeutics Corp.

WTA Tour Inc.

Whole Foods Market Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Delaware Court of Chancery

European Commission

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

New Jersey Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

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

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Utah