Competition

  • October 21, 2026

    App Can't Get Apple Antitrust Case Assigned To DOJ Judge

    A New Jersey federal judge has refused to reassign communal video streaming app Rave's antitrust case against Apple to the same judge overseeing a monopolization case against Apple from the U.S. Department of Justice.

  • October 21, 2026

    X Says OpenAI Can't Nix IPhone Placement Antitrust Case

    X Corp. and SpaceXAI urged a Texas federal judge Wednesday not to let OpenAI scrap their lawsuit targeting a deal integrating ChatGPT into Apple devices, arguing any attempts to paint the deal as nonexclusive or show it hasn't completely foreclosed the market are factual disputes left to the jury.

  • October 21, 2026

    Intuitive Surgical Strikes $450M Deal In Robot Antitrust Suit

    Intuitive Surgical said in its quarterly earnings report Tuesday that it reached a $450 million settlement to resolve a hospital class action alleging it monopolized the market for servicing its da Vinci surgical robots, subject to approval by a California federal judge.

  • October 21, 2026

    CRH To Unload NJ Asphalt Plants For $8.5B Arcosa Deal

    New Jersey state enforcers have reached an agreement allowing CRH plc to move ahead with its planned $8.5 billion purchase of Arcosa Inc., conditioned on the sale of several hot-mix asphalt plants in the state.

  • October 21, 2026

    Heineken To Pay €111M Over Greek Beer Market Abuse

    Heineken must pay €111 million ($125 million) to a rival brewery for abusing its dominant position in the Greek beer market and holding back competitors for 16 years, a Dutch court ruled Wednesday.

  • October 21, 2026

    CMA Seeks Views On £86M Sale Of Paragon Car Fleet Unit

    The U.K.'s antitrust regulator called Wednesday for comments on how a car-hire company's £85.6 million ($115 million) acquisition of the specialist vehicle and fleet subsidiary of Paragon Banking Group might harm competition in Britain.

  • October 20, 2026

    T-Mobile Beats Spectrum Foe's Antitrust Counterclaims, Again

    Investment firm WCO Spectrum must paint a much wider, more cohesive picture of how T-Mobile's mid-band spectrum practices have anticompetitively edged it out of buying up spectrum leases from high schools and colleges, according to a California federal judge's ruling Monday once again tossing counterclaims lodged in T-Mobile's racketeering suit.

  • October 20, 2026

    Texas Appeals Court Skeptical Uri Interference Claims Viable

    A Texas appeals court on Tuesday sounded dubious of a claim brought by energy consumers alleging that dozens of companies involved in the natural gas industry tortiously interfered with their electricity contracts by decreasing natural gas output during a deadly winter storm.

  • October 20, 2026

    TQL Seeks Ax Of Trucking Cos.' RICO Suit Over Lost Bids

    Total Quality Logistics LLC has asked a Texas federal judge to reject a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit from family-owned trucking companies accusing it of steering long-haul shipments to illegal "fly-by-night" or "chameleon" carriers and muscling out legitimate trucking companies.

  • October 20, 2026

    2nd Circ. Won't Block Connecticut Drug Price Cap

    A Second Circuit panel affirmed a lower court's decision Tuesday, refusing to block Connecticut from enforcing a cap on generic and off-patent drug prices while a trade association for drug wholesalers challenges the statute.

  • October 20, 2026

    AirPro Says Rival Used Merger Talks To Build Competing Tool

    Counsel for AirPro Diagnostics LLC urged a Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday to reverse a lower court's summary judgment ruling and allow its breach of contract suit to proceed to trial, arguing that a rival company violated a mutual party agreement by using confidential information disclosed during merger negotiations to develop a competing diagnostic tool.

  • October 20, 2026

    Google Makes Last DC Circ. Push Against DOJ's Search Win

    Google took one final swing Monday at upending a D.C. federal judge's rulings faulting it for monopolizing online search and forcing it to prop up search engine rivals with data and syndicated results, telling the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Department of Justice's case targets earned market dominance.

  • October 20, 2026

    Hunton Adds Husch Blackwell Commercial Litigator In Dallas

    Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP said it has added a nationally recognized litigator with nearly two decades of experience to its commercial litigation practice.

  • October 20, 2026

    Albertsons Says It Offered $800M To Save Kroger Deal

    Albertsons Cos. Inc.'s general counsel testified Tuesday that The Kroger Co. passed on proposed store divestitures that could have helped save their $24.6 billion merger, while Kroger's lawyers pointed to information shared with Albertsons and challenged its complaints about the process.

  • October 20, 2026

    UK Wants Apple To Face More Competition For Digital Wallets

    Britain's competition enforcer proposed changes Tuesday that would require Apple to give rival payment services access to iPhones' contactless technology on more viable commercial terms, in an effort to boost competition and spur innovation.

  • October 20, 2026

    CMA Seeks Views On Intersurgical's Teleflex Deal

    Britain's antitrust regulator invited comments Tuesday on whether local medical device maker Intersurgical's proposed $530 million acquisition of two businesses could harm competition in U.K. markets.

  • October 20, 2026

    FCC Urged To Maintain Radio Station Ownership Caps

    Two organizations representing musical artists have asked the Federal Communications Commission to keep media ownership limits on radio station groups in place.

  • October 20, 2026

    Virgin Media Owners Ask CMA To Revisit UK Fiber Biz Deal

    The owners of Virgin Media O2 called on Britain's competition authority on Tuesday to reconsider its objection to their proposed $2.7 billion acquisition of Substantial Group after the government handed a free pass to allow BT to rescue TalkTalk.

  • October 19, 2026

    Tyson Must Face Turkey Buyers' Claims In Price-Fixing Suit

    An Illinois federal judge on Monday issued a sweeping summary judgment order in antitrust litigation over price-fixing allegations against turkey producers and a data collection company, ruling that direct-action plaintiffs can take some claims against Tyson and another company to trial while granting summary judgment to other defendants.

  • October 19, 2026

    Proskauer Says It Didn't Drop Reddit To Defend Perplexity

    Proskauer Rose LLP and Perplexity AI are urging a New York federal judge to allow the law firm to represent the artificial intelligence company in Reddit's suit over alleged data scraping, balking at the social media platform's argument that its one-time law firm can't represent its current opponent.

  • October 19, 2026

    Compass Retaliates With MLS Suit In Listing Access Fight

    Brokerage Compass shot back at the country's second-largest multiple listing service in California federal court with a lawsuit arguing that rules prohibiting home marketing methods off the online platform are costing the company millions in lost revenue and lost commissions for agents, along with hampering its own home listing platform. 

  • October 19, 2026

    NY, Pa. Secure Divestments For Road Repair Cos. Merger

    New York and Pennsylvania said on Monday they reached a settlement allowing Colas Inc. to move ahead with its planned purchase of Suit-Kote Corp., conditioned on the sale of several facilities over concerns about competition for municipal road repair contracts.

  • October 19, 2026

    Amazon Seeks To Nix 'Project Nessie' Claims From FTC Suit

    Amazon urged a Washington federal judge Friday to pare down the Federal Trade Commission's landmark antitrust lawsuit by axing claims related to its fulfillment business and an algorithm-based pricing tool known as Project Nessie, as the FTC sought to narrow one of the e-commerce giant's defenses.  

  • October 19, 2026

    Ad Giant Promises Separate Data Access In FTC Merger Deal

    France's Publicis Groupe SA must guarantee five years of access to "standalone" products of data collaboration platform LiveRamp Holdings Inc. under a Federal Trade Commission settlement Monday clearing the advertising buying giant's $2.2 billion purchase.

  • October 19, 2026

    Puerto Rico Towns Say Climate Suit Deadline Creates 'Trap'

    Puerto Rico municipalities have told the First Circuit that a lower court dismissing as untimely their antitrust and racketeering lawsuit saying energy companies concealed the climate change dangers of fossil fuel products "presents a trap" for any such claims.

Expert Analysis

  • Unpacking FDIC's Modernized Bank Merger Review Rules

    Author Photo

    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s proposed revisions to its Bank Merger Act review process are a shift from its more skeptical prior posture toward a more structured and transaction-facilitative approach, though some broader uncertainty remains concerning antitrust alignment with the U.S. Department of Justice, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • FTC's BOTS Act Blitz Raises Stakes For Ticket Resellers

    Author Photo

    Recent lawsuits and enforcement actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission under the Better Online Ticket Sales Act signal sustained ticket industry enforcement, but industry actors can reduce risk by screening practices and partnerships related to ticket purchasing, and evaluating the scale of their ticket operations, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • AGs' Paramount Settlement Reflects States' Growing Influence

    Author Photo

    The recent California federal court approval of the California v. Paramount Skydance settlement illustrates how state attorneys general are gaining new independence and influence, and companies must account for state enforcement when assessing merger risks ahead of a deal's closing, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

  • CFIUS Annual Report Reveals Enforcement Trends

    Author Photo

    The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' recently published annual report to Congress shows that it is increasingly focused on nonnotified transactions, mandatory filing compliance, critical technologies and postclosing mitigation enforcement across the full life cycle transactions, say attorneys at Bass Berry.

  • FTC Hospital Review Shows Hurdles To Failing-Firm Defense

    Author Photo

    The Federal Trade Commission's recent announcement about Fairfield Medical Center's abandoned sale to OhioHealth shows why financially distressed sellers must conduct an adequate buyer search before using the failing-firm defense to argue that enforcers should overlook competition concerns, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • Clippers Salary Cap Probe Offers Investigation Tips For Cos.

    Author Photo

    The NBA's recent investigation into whether the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented salary cap rules offers an unusually detailed look at how a significant organizational probe was conducted and how its findings were presented, offering practical lessons for companies conducting their own investigations, say attorneys at Wiley.

  • Parsing The Latest Signals On FTC Section 5 Enforcement

    Author Photo

    Federal Trade Commission cases brought over the last several years and Commissioner Mark Meador’s recent call for stand-alone Section 5 enforcement suggest businesses should prepare for continued scrutiny of conduct beyond traditional antitrust violations, particularly in essential goods, technology and labor markets, say attorneys at Axinn.

  • What Lawyers Should Know Before Accepting Crypto Payment

    Author Photo

    As clients increasingly request to pay legal fees, retainers and escrow funds using cryptocurrency, lawyers should consider how only a handful of state bar authorities have addressed the issue with varying ethics opinions, as well as the related questions that no authority has yet answered, says attorney Felix Shipkevich.

  • How To Use AI In Employment Contract Drafting

    Excerpt from Practical Guidance
    Author Photo

    Before using artificial intelligence to draft employment contracts, law firms and employers must assess practical ethical guardrails, appropriate use cases, core risk areas and validation workflows, says Samuel Mitchell at Smith Gambrell.

  • Zillow-Redfin Settlement Spotlights Nontraditional-Deal Risk

    Author Photo

    The Federal Trade Commission's recent settlement with Zillow and Redfin serves as a reminder that authorities are increasingly interested in challenging nontraditional transaction structures that effectively eliminate a market participant, which includes some exclusivity arrangements, say attorneys at Freshfields.

  • Series

    Mentalism Makes Me A Better Lawyer

    Author Photo

    Convincing strangers I can read their minds may seem like an unusual second career for a legal practitioner, but both disciplines share several important requirements, including trust and preparation, says Warren Biro at Manatt.

  • Why And How To Build A Neurodiversity-Informed Practice

    Author Photo

    By better understanding neurodiversity and implementing simple accommodations for clients with autism, ADHD or learning differences, attorneys can build stronger relationships with those who may otherwise struggle to obtain and benefit from legal services, while developing good habits that will benefit everyone they represent, says Ting Cheung at Sanford Heisler.

  • How FTC Win Charts A Court-1st Merger Litigation Playbook

    Author Photo

    A New York federal court's recent decision blocking Henkel's acquisition of Liquid Nails marked a decisive trial win for the Federal Trade Commission, and tips for merging parties in similar transactions now include preparing for full-blown federal litigation, including a complete evidentiary trial, say attorneys at Cooley.

  • Contact Lens Rule's Evolution Steers FTC Guidance Program

    Author Photo

    The history of the Federal Trade Commission's Contact Lens Rule illustrates the goals of the FTC's recently announced guidance program, which aims to strengthen consumer protection and safeguard competition, say attorneys at Wilson Sonsini.

  • DOJ-Agri Stats Settlement Offers Key Benchmarking Lessons

    Author Photo

    A Minnesota federal court's recent approval of the Agri Stats settlement marks a significant milestone as it's the most granular U.S. Justice Department guidance on permissible competitor benchmarking since the 2023 withdrawal of the safety zone, lending predictability for companies in data-pooling arrangements, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

Want to publish in Law360?


Submit an idea

Have a news tip?


Contact us here