Competition

  • January 15, 2025

    Robo Surgery Co. Caused $140M In Lost Profits, Jury Told

    Surgical Instrument Service suffered lost profits of up to $140 million because Intuitive Surgical Inc. blocked it from providing a service that extends the life of an Intuitive da Vinci surgery robot component, an economist told jurors Wednesday in a trial over claims Intuitive abuses its market power.

  • January 15, 2025

    Drake Says Violence Followed UMG Boosting 'Pedo' Claim

    Universal Music Group chose greed over the safety of its artists when it launched a campaign to boost the popularity of Kendrick Lamar's single "Not Like Us," which the record label knew falsely accused Drake of being a "certified pedophile," the Canadian rapper alleged Wednesday in a Manhattan federal lawsuit.

  • January 15, 2025

    FTC Won't Disqualify Commissioners From PBM Insulin Case

    The Federal Trade Commission denied bids from Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx that sought to bar the commission's Democratic members from participating in a case accusing the pharmacy benefit managers of inflating insulin prices.

  • January 15, 2025

    Outgoing FCC Chair Touts 'Wins On The Board'

    With less than a week left in office, the chief of the Biden-era Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday highlighted the accomplishments of her tenure, including efforts to connect more Americans and advance space-based communications, but warned that a number of problems ranging from cybersecurity threats to the digital divide persist.

  • January 15, 2025

    FTC Defends Authority To Bring Amazon Antitrust Case

    The Federal Trade Commission is pushing back on Amazon's claims that the commission can't bring an antitrust case in federal court without first launching an administrative complaint, telling the Washington federal judge overseeing its case against the e-commerce giant that the Ninth Circuit has already cleared such a move.

  • January 15, 2025

    Samsung Slams Epic's Antitrust Suit Over Google Play Store

    Samsung moved to end Epic Games' suit alleging it colluded with Google to skirt an impending injunction forcing Google to permit competition with its Play Store by installing an auto blocker feature on Samsung devices, telling a California federal judge Wednesday the feature is a product improvement shielded from antitrust scrutiny.

  • January 15, 2025

    Buyers In Cheese Co. Deal Fight To Keep Claims In Fla.

    Two Florida companies asked the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to revive their lawsuit accusing Savencia Cheese USA LLC and its executives of fraudulently selling them a worthless cheese distribution company for $17 million, arguing the presence of deal counsel in Miami is enough to keep the suit in Florida federal court.

  • January 15, 2025

    Tenants Want Yardi Rent-Fixing Suits Combined

    Renters have urged a federal court in Washington state to consolidate two other cases with their proposed class action, which claims that multifamily building owners schemed to use a real estate management software company's product to inflate rental prices.

  • January 15, 2025

    Noncompete Ban Has A Defender In Wings If Trump FTC Won't

    Entrepreneurs group Small Business Majority wants the Fifth and Eleventh circuits to let it intervene to defend the Federal Trade Commission's currently blocked noncompetes ban if FTC Republicans stop arguing for the rule as expected once they take power.

  • January 15, 2025

    Fubo Subscriber Sues Disney For Alleged Antitrust Practices

    A Fubo subscriber has filed an antitrust lawsuit in New York federal court alleging the Walt Disney Co.'s ownership of ESPN allows it to dominate the broadcasting licenses for professional sports, enabling Disney to monopolize and inflate prices within the paid, live-streaming television market.

  • January 15, 2025

    Attys Must Show They Obeyed Candor Rule In Shell Discovery

    A Delaware federal court has ordered attorneys from Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wachtel Lipton Rosen & Katz, and White & Case LLP to show why they should not be found in violation of professional conduct rules over their handling of discovery requests while defending corporate clients amid a Shell Chemical LP antitrust proceeding in the Netherlands.

  • January 15, 2025

    Amex GBT Blasts Bid To Block $570M Travel Services Deal

    American Express Global Business Travel Inc. told a New York federal court Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice case seeking to block its planned $570 million purchase of CWT Holdings LLC ignores the competitive landscape of the corporate travel management industry.

  • January 15, 2025

    Trump's AG Pick Tries To Assure Congress On Independence

    President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general attempted to assuage uneasiness from Democrats on Wednesday, saying the U.S. Department of Justice will be free of politics and will not go after perceived enemies.

  • January 15, 2025

    Canada Greenlights $18B Viterra-Bunge Grain Deal

    The Canadian government has approved grain and seed supplier Bunge Ltd.'s plan to buy global grain trader Viterra Ltd. for $18 billion, but with "extensive" conditions, including Bunge having to invest at least $520 million in Canada over the next five years.

  • January 15, 2025

    Banks Must Face Pension Funds' Mexican Bond-Rigging Suit

    A Manhattan federal judge refused Wednesday to throw out a case brought by U.S. pension funds that accused a group of banks of conspiring to rig Mexican government bond prices, saying chatroom transcripts between traders showed evidence of collusion.

  • January 15, 2025

    FTC Brings Right-To-Repair Suit Against John Deere

    The Federal Trade Commission slapped John Deere with a repair monopoly lawsuit in Illinois federal court Wednesday, adding to proposed class actions alleging the company illegally withholds access to needed repair tools from farmers, even in the face of mounting public pressure.

  • January 14, 2025

    Enbridge Beats Ducere's Oil Transport Antitrust Suit

    Enbridge Inc. beat Ducere LLC's suit accusing it of killing a pipeline terminal project to maintain its monopoly over crude oil transportation services in the Chicago area, after an Illinois federal judge pointed out Monday there are several non-Enbridge pipeline routes providing refineries with alternatives for moving oil.

  • January 14, 2025

    Conn. City Hits PBMs And Pharma Cos. With Insulin Pricing Suit

    A city partway between New Haven and Hartford took pharmacy benefit managers and drug makers including CVS Health Corp., Eli Lilly and Co. and Novo Nordisk Inc. to Connecticut federal court on Monday, alleging that they conspired to keep diabetes medications and insulin at needlessly high prices.

  • January 14, 2025

    'Totally A Tactic': Judge Rips Apple For Discovery Delays

    The California federal judge presiding over Epic Games' antitrust compliance fight with Apple criticized the tech giant's efforts to withhold tens of thousands of documents under attorney-client privilege, telling Apple's counsel at a hearing Tuesday that "in large part, this is delay ... it's totally a tactic" and "there will be consequences."

  • January 14, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Judge Asks What's The Rush In Eylea Biosimilar Case

    Counsel for Amgen and a Federal Circuit judge got into a back-and-forth Tuesday concerning the pace of an appeal over a denied injunction on Regeneron's biosimilar of Eylea, with the judge wondering why the attorney was so eager to move things along.

  • January 14, 2025

    Chancery Hits Co. With $2.9M Atty Fee Bill As Sanction

    A California medical device molding company that sought millions from a merger partner for breaches of contract in Delaware's Court of Chancery came away Tuesday with awards of $104,000 for its claims and $2.9 million in attorney fees as a sanction for contempt and spoliation by Symbient Product Development LLC founder Scott Castanon.

  • January 14, 2025

    GOP Objects To FTC Move To Protect Unionizing Gig Workers

    The Democratic-led Federal Trade Commission held its final meeting before President-elect Donald Trump takes office next week, moving to protect unionizing gig workers and examine investor holdings in the single-family-housing market, while the Republican waiting to take the helm said the body should stop announcing new plans.

  • January 14, 2025

    Consumers Lose Bid To Bring £500M Apple Claim In UK

    Apple and Amazon on Tuesday evaded a consumer advocate's nearly £500 million ($610 million) price-fixing class action accusing the two technology giants of illegally colluding to keep prices for products high.

  • January 14, 2025

    Dispute Over Eli Lilly Weight Loss Drug Reignited

    Compounding pharmacies have reignited a suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over the removal of a lucrative weight loss drug from the shortage list, with a Texas federal judge ordering both sides to turn in briefing on injunctive relief during a Tuesday hearing.

  • January 14, 2025

    NCAA, Big Ten Argue Ex-Players' $50M NIL Suit Too Late

    The NCAA and Big Ten Network have asked a Michigan federal judge to toss a proposed class action from football players who are seeking more than $50 million in compensation for their names, images and likenesses, arguing their claims are untimely.

Expert Analysis

  • The Strategic Advantages Of Appointing A Law Firm CEO

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    The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.

  • Inside FTC's Decision To Exit Key Merger Review Labor Memo

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    Despite the Federal Trade Commission's recent withdrawal from a multiagency memorandum of understanding to step up enforcement of labor issues in merger investigations, the antitrust agencies aren't likely to give up their labor market focus, say attorneys at Stinson.

  • Series

    Beekeeping Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The practice of patent law and beekeeping are not typically associated, but taking care of honeybees has enriched my legal practice by highlighting the importance of hands-on experience, continuous learning, mentorship and more, says David Longo at Oblon McClelland.

  • Election Unlikely To Overhaul Antitrust Enforcers' Labor Focus

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    Although the outcome of the presidential election may alter the course of antitrust enforcement in certain areas of the economy, scrutiny of labor markets by the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice is likely to remain largely unaffected — with one notable exception, say Jared Nagley and Joy Siu at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Challenges Of Insuring An NIL Collective

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    Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty examines the emergence of name, image and likeness collectives for student-athletes, the current litigation landscape that has created a favorable environment for these organizations, and considerations for director and officer insurers looking to underwrite NIL collectives.

  • Opinion

    Legal Institutions Must Warn Against Phony Election Suits

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    With two weeks until the election, bar associations and courts have an urgent responsibility to warn lawyers about the consequences of filing unsubstantiated lawsuits claiming election fraud, says Elise Bean at the Carl Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy.

  • Peeling Back The Layers Of SEC's Equity Trading Reforms

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recently adopted amendments lowering the tick sizes for stock trading and reducing access fee caps will benefit investors and necessitate broad systems changes — if they can first survive judicial challenges, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • How Cos. Can Build A Strong In-House Pro Bono Program

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    During this year’s pro bono celebration week, companies should consider some key pointers to grow and maintain a vibrant in-house program for attorneys to provide free legal services for the public good, says Mary Benton at Alston & Bird.

  • Series

    Home Canning Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Making my own pickles and jams requires seeing a process through from start to finish, as does representing clients from the start of a dispute at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board through any appeals to the Federal Circuit, says attorney Kevin McNish.

  • CFPB School Lunch Focus Could Expand E-Payment Scrutiny

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    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent spotlight on payment processing systems used to add funds to school lunch accounts shows its continued ambitions to further expand its supervisory power in the payments industry, all the way down to the school lunch market, says Tom Witherspoon at Stinson.

  • How Project 2025 Could Upend Federal ESG Policies

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    If implemented, Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's policy playbook for a Republican presidential administration, would likely seek to deploy antitrust law to target ESG initiatives, limit pension fund managers' focus to pecuniary factors and spell doom for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's climate rule, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • Opinion

    Rental Price-Fixing Suit Against RealPage Doesn't Add Up

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    Recent government antitrust litigation against RealPage, alleging that the software company's algorithm for setting rental prices amounts to price-fixing, has failed to allege an actual conspiracy, and is an example of regulatory overreach that should be reined in, says Andrew Ketterer at Ketterer & Ketterer.

  • Use The Right Kind Of Feedback To Help Gen Z Attorneys

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    Generation Z associates bring unique perspectives and expectations to the workplace, so it’s imperative that supervising attorneys adapt their feedback approach in order to help young lawyers learn and grow — which is good for law firms, too, says Rachael Bosch at Fringe Professional Development.

  • Opinion

    Congress Can And Must Enact A Supreme Court Ethics Code

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    As public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court dips to historic lows following reports raising conflict of interest concerns, Congress must exercise its constitutional power to enact a mandatory and enforceable code of ethics for the high court, says Muhammad Faridi, president of the New York City Bar Association.

  • Series

    The Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan

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    Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.

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