UFC escapes sanctions for now over alleged US discovery violations
July 03, 2026
| Alex Wilts
A Nevada federal judge said Thursday that he would decline, for now, to sanction Ultimate Fighting Championship over alleged discovery violations, while allowing mixed martial arts fighters to renew their request later.
99Food dominance probe returns to CADE Tribunal
July 02, 2026
| Henrique Santiago
CADE’s interim president formally requested a review of the decision by the agency's Superintendence to close an investigation into allegations that 99Food improperly imposed exclusivity clauses on restaurants... (more story)
US DOJ can't get Visa materials from debit antitrust class action, judge says
July 02, 2026
| Chris May
Visa won’t be compelled to hand over transcripts of sworn testimony in long-running class action antitrust litigation sought by the US Department of Justice in separate monopolization litigation, a New York fe... (more story)
UK water companies may face revival of mass competition claim over pollution
July 02, 2026
| Simon Zekaria
Water companies are facing a possible revival of a UK competition-law mass claim against them over sewage discharges after a class action representative won the right from the top court to challenge a block on... (more story)
Deal values up, second requests down in fiscal year 2025, HSR report says
July 02, 2026
| Wesley Brown
The percentage of transactions greater than $1 billion continued to rise as second requests dropped, according to an annual Hart-Scott-Rodino report by the US Department of Justice and the US Federal Trade Com... (more story)
Google ordered to pay €126m in damages to Dailymotion, French press publishers
July 02, 2026
| Jean Comte
Google was ordered by a French court to pay a total of €126 million in antitrust damages to Le Figaro, Les Echo-Le Parisien, Prisma Media and Dailymotion, according to rulings issued on Monday and seen by MLex... (more story)
SolidWorks software supply draws UK antitrust probe
July 02, 2026
| Lewis Crofts
Dassault Systemes, Solid Solutions Management and Visiativ Solutions are the target of a new UK antitrust investigation over the supply of SolidWorks software — a kind of modelling software used in design.
Google loses appeal against €4bn EU fine for Android antitrust abuse (*updates)
July 02, 2026
| Lewis Crofts
Google has failed to persuade the EU Court of Justice to overturn a 2018 antitrust decision that imposed a record fine of €4.3 billion. Judges dismissed the appeal "brought by Google and Alphabet against that ... (more story)