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Combating "gamesmanship" remains top of mind for the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division as it reviews mergers, according to a New York speech Thursday from acting head Omeed A. Assefi warning parties against "altering" merger notification material or trying to "play games with documents and data."
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May 22, 2026
Washington and Nevada regulators' lawsuits accusing prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket of violating state gambling laws can proceed in their respective state courts, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Thursday, denying the companies' arguments that the actions raise federal questions and thus belong in federal court.
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May 22, 2026
A California federal judge's recent use of advisory juries for high-profile tech disputes — including Elon Musk's OpenAI for-profit conversion challenge and states' social-media addiction fight with Meta — is an uncommon practice that's intended as a "reality check" for judges deciding "socially explosive" disputes, according to legal experts.
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May 22, 2026
Creating a multibillion-dollar competition between Illinois and Indiana to build the Chicago Bears' new stadium is a strategy that has become increasingly popular among pro franchises that can leverage tax and financial incentives, and even real estate deals.
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May 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice is requiring a Japanese cement company and its CalPortland subsidiary to divest three ready-mix concrete plants to a Southern California company to address antitrust concerns arising from CalPortland's proposed $712 million acquisition of construction giant Vulcan Materials' Golden State concrete plants, the agency announced.
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May 22, 2026
The Fifth Circuit has remanded a real estate developer's antitrust claims over a Texas city's alleged illegal restraint on retail water utility services, saying a lower court did not give the appeals court a "sound basis" to examine the claims.
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May 22, 2026
State enforcers say they want a federal court to split up Live Nation and Ticketmaster following a New York federal jury verdict that Live Nation had harmed competition by monopolizing ticket sales for large concert venues, even as the concert promotion giant sought to undo the verdict against it or to be granted a new trial.
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May 22, 2026
Nexstar Media Group Inc. told a California federal court it needs to merge with Tegna Inc. to compete more effectively, especially with streaming services owned by the Big Tech giants, as it faces a challenge to the deal from state enforcers and DirecTV.
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May 22, 2026
OpenAI was ordered to turn over deposition testimony from three executives that was taken in the course of Elon Musk's California case challenging the company's conversion into a for-profit entity to a group of authors and news organizations suing over the alleged use of copyrighted content to train artificial intelligence models.
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May 22, 2026
A pair of Senate Democrats cautioned financial regulators about greenlighting fintech lender Enova International's application to become a national bank holding company, calling it a "predatory lender."
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May 22, 2026
Seven HVAC companies, including Rheem, Trane, Carrier and Lennox, engaged in price-fixing and inventory manipulation using the COVID-19 pandemic as a cover, Arkansas-based HVAC contractor Reliance Heating and Cooling alleged in a civil antitrust suit filed in Michigan federal court Friday.
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May 22, 2026
Google told the D.C. Circuit Friday the government is using antitrust law to punish a successful competitor as it looks to overturn a trial court's ruling finding that Google illegally maintained its search monopoly.
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May 22, 2026
A multiple listing service said Friday that Zillow is risking the loss of 40,000 home listings over its effort to exclude nine privately circulated posts, as the company seeks to enforce a ban on private home listings with a temporary injunction and antitrust lawsuit.
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May 22, 2026
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities Inc. combine, investment firms CVC and Groupe Bruxelles Lambert lead a group of investors to buy pharmaceuticals company Recordati SpA, and NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy merge.
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May 22, 2026
A former producer at the insurance brokerage giant USI has breached his employment agreement by siphoning clients for his own competing company, according to a federal contract suit filed in Connecticut.
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May 22, 2026
Environmental initiatives, diversity programs, anti-misinformation efforts and gender-affirming care have become central targets for President Donald Trump's antitrust enforcers in what observers say is an increasing trend of politically tinged competition enforcement.
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May 21, 2026
Apple Inc. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on exactly when and how civil contempt sanctions can be issued for violating a court order, arguing that the Ninth Circuit missed the mark by upholding such sanctions against Apple in its App Store battle with Epic Games.
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May 21, 2026
Pharmacy benefit manager Prime Therapeutics LLC has replaced counsel Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP with WilmerHale and another firm in an antitrust case in Michigan federal court brought by the state's attorney general.
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May 21, 2026
Cardiac catheter refurbisher Innovative Health urged the Ninth Circuit to reject the appeal from Johnson & Johnson's Biosense Webster unit seeking to upend its $442 million antitrust judgment, saying the lower court rightly found that Biosense forced hospitals to avoid refurbished catheters in favor of its own.
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May 21, 2026
A Washington, D.C., brokerage has filed a proposed class action against CoStar in federal court, alleging a decades-long anticompetitive scheme designed to maintain a monopoly over commercial real estate listing services and information services.
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May 21, 2026
A federal judge in Manhattan declined Thursday to order the Wimbledon and French Open tennis tournaments to grant access to representatives from a players group, after the group claimed its representatives are being denied access in retaliation for its antitrust lawsuit.
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May 21, 2026
Consumers challenging Paramount Skydance Corp.'s pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery asked a California federal judge Wednesday to preliminarily block the transaction while the case proceeds, arguing the threat of higher streaming costs and reduced news competition is too great, and it will be too hard to unscramble the egg after trial.
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May 21, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has accused two Florida residents of conspiring to bribe a U.S. Army employee and defraud the federal government in connection with the development of a U.S. Department of Defense innovation lab in Hawaii.
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May 21, 2026
The European Union's top court said Thursday that Portugal can't suspend tax enforcement proceedings against a company that benefited from unlawful state aid granted by the Madeira Free Zone.
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May 21, 2026
Hermès asked the Ninth Circuit to affirm the dismissal of a suit from shoppers alleging the company illegally ties the sale of its iconic Birkin handbags to other expensive luxury items, saying the plaintiff's case reflects "a fundamental misunderstanding of tying law."
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May 21, 2026
Nexstar urged the Ninth Circuit to narrow a preliminary injunction preventing it from fully integrating with Tegna Inc. that was issued in a challenge to the broadcasters' $6.2 billion merger by state enforcers and satellite provider DirecTV.