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July 01, 2026
A New York federal court has sent antitrust claims from concertgoers who purchased Ticketmaster tickets on the secondary market to arbitration, after finding an arbitration clause in Live Nation's terms of service is enforceable.
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July 01, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday dismissed claims that semiconductor manufacturers negligently sold products the Russian government used to build missiles that killed Ukrainian civilians, but gave the Ukrainian civilians who brought the suit another shot at pleading their claims.
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July 01, 2026
An advisory firm's failure to register as a broker before diving into work on a $2.1 billion take-private deal last year has cost it, while emails and text messages took center stage in several other disputes pending in Massachusetts state court in June.
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July 01, 2026
Getty Images opted to abandon its plans to buy Shutterstock rather than sell its rival's editorial arm, in what United Kingdom antitrust enforcers cast as a course reversal after the companies had previously offered up the divestiture to address concerns that the $3.7 billion merger threatened news content competition.
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July 01, 2026
One of the farms suing Deere & Co. in federal right to repair litigation is objecting to a $99 million settlement that received preliminary approval in May, saying the deal provides minimal relief compared to what the class could have gotten at trial, especially since more than half of it may go to class counsel.
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July 01, 2026
The Kroger Co. said Wednesday it will acquire regional grocer Giant Eagle in a deal worth $1.65 billion, with Jones Day advising Kroger and Giant Eagle tapping WilmerHale as lead counsel and Troutman Pepper Locke LLP as local counsel.
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June 30, 2026
AIDS Healthcare Foundation says its nonprofit wellness centers are going to be run out of business if Cigna-owned pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts isn't stopped from using its muscle in the market to steer pharmacy patients toward specialty pharmacies it's affiliated with.
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June 30, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement Tuesday resolving claims that Havas Media Group USA LLC colluded with other advertising agencies to demonetize "disfavored political viewpoints" using brand safety standards, making Havas the last of the industry's "Big Six" to cut deals in the sweeping campaign against alleged censorship of conservatives.
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June 30, 2026
Ohio pharmacy benefit managers and their corporate parents urged a federal judge to toss the state's drug price-fixing lawsuit, saying in a series of briefs that the state is trying to skirt federal pleading standards, collapse corporate separateness and stretch Ohio's antitrust law beyond its limits.
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June 30, 2026
State and federal enforcers have reached settlements with Cal-Maine, Versova and Hickman's Egg Ranch over claims that the egg producers inflated prices by colluding to manipulate benchmarking rates.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has weighed in on Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's antitrust lawsuit against some of the world's largest oil companies, arguing much of the state's case is legally barred because Michigan is improperly attempting to regulate climate change through state antitrust law.
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June 30, 2026
The Justice Department offered its formal defense of the controversial midtrial settlement that allowed Live Nation to keep its Ticketmaster subsidiary, telling a New York federal judge the deal frees up artists and venues much faster than any remedy state attorneys general could achieve through their jury win.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take up Apple's challenge to a California federal court contempt order against it for violating a ban, won by Epic Games, on company policies that barred app developers from steering users to outside payment options.
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June 30, 2026
The Competition Appeal Tribunal was urged Tuesday to certify a resurrected class action accusing Amazon and Apple of entering into anti-competitive agreements that inflated the price of Apple products, after an earlier claim was rejected.
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June 30, 2026
The U.K. government warned Tuesday it could interrupt Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery over concerns the deal could reduce media plurality and affect the range of news and entertainment services available to British audiences.
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June 30, 2026
Two Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP attorneys — including one of the New York-headquartered boutique's founding partners — have moved to Kirkland & Ellis LLP to help lead the BigLaw firm's antitrust practice.
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June 29, 2026
The policies and enforcement priorities of federal agencies may fluctuate more rapidly based on who is president, as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's Monday decision finding that presidents have unlimited authority to fire members of independent agencies, experts told Law360.
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June 29, 2026
A California federal judge Monday again dismissed a securities fraud suit accusing Visa Inc. of concealing anticompetitive debt practices that are the subject of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, saying the plaintiffs still haven't shown that Visa's alleged omissions caused investor losses.
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June 29, 2026
Wayne-Sanderson urged a Maryland federal court to enforce nearly $70 million in settlements the poultry processor reached with workers and to block dozens of individuals who are suing or threatening to sue in Alabama state court alleging wage suppression.
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June 29, 2026
An appeal testing the limits of ERISA fiduciary liability goes before the Third Circuit in July when DuPont and Corteva seek to overturn a district court ruling that a corporate spinoff damaged employees' retirement benefits. The court will also hear argument on whether heavy equipment giant Caterpillar forced a competitor out of business by pressuring a vendor. Here are some highlights from the court's July calendar.
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June 29, 2026
Federal Trade Commission members, responsible for merger review, antitrust enforcement, consumer protection safeguards and rulemaking, and industry analysis, no longer serve at a remove from presidential authority, thanks to Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could dramatically remake the FTC and other independent agencies.
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June 29, 2026
A New York federal judge trimmed proposed class action claims by providers alleging Sanofi-Aventis and other drugmakers colluded to deny them discounts on insulin products under the 340B program, allowing most of their state-law antitrust claims to survive but dismissing their unjust enrichment claims.
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June 29, 2026
Optum, Caremark and Express Scripts on Monday dropped their appeal in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Federal Trade Commission's in-house administrative process, and the pharmacy benefit managers are working to settle the commission's remaining insulin-pricing claims.
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June 29, 2026
The Eighth Circuit on Monday turned down an employee health plan participant's bid to revive a proposed class action alleging CVS Caremark unjustly enriched itself by failing to comply with Arkansas laws on pharmacy network adequacy, holding a lower court didn't err in tossing the dispute.
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June 29, 2026
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP-led independent midstream energy company Cardinal Midstream Partners LLC on Monday revealed that it has agreed to sell its Cardinal Delaware Basin LLC and Cardinal New Mexico LLC to San Mateo Midstream LLC, led by Baker Botts LLP and O'Melveny & Myers LLP, in a $752 million deal.