FTC Clears Boeing's $4.7B Spirit Aero Deal With Fixes

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that enforcers will allow Boeing to move ahead with its planned $4.7 billion purchase of aircraft parts-maker Spirit AeroSystems after the companies agreed to sell several assets.

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NASCAR Contracts Sped Up Team's Financial Woes, Jury Told

By Hayley Fowler

The longtime owner of a race team suing NASCAR for antitrust violations alongside fellow team owner Michael Jordan told a federal jury in North Carolina Wednesday that his team has never turned a profit in 22 years, with the losses allegedly worsening after the advent of the charter system.

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Google Wants Justices To Pause Petition Pending Epic Deal

By Matthew Perlman

Google asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put its petition seeking review of the antitrust case from Epic Games over the distribution of apps on Android devices on hold while the district court considers a potential settlement.

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State AGs Condemn College Sports Rule Enforcement Deal

By David Steele

Seven state attorneys general on Wednesday called a proposed contract between NCAA institutions and the commission enforcing new revenue-sharing rules for athletes "cartoonishly villainous," arguing in a letter that it undermines state laws and jeopardizes the rights of athletes and schools.

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FTC Backs Nixing ABA Role As 'Gatekeeper' For Texas Bar

By Lynn LaRowe

The Federal Trade Commission has endorsed a proposal from the Texas Supreme Court to abandon a rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the state bar, saying the organization's "accreditation monopoly" hurts competition and consumers.

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Chemours Monopolizing Refrigerant Market, Court Told

By Abigail Harrison

DuPont spinoff The Chemours Co. FC LLC is clutching on to monopolistic control of the refrigerant gas market in order to fend off a competitor's emerging gas reclamation business, the competitor's counsel told a North Carolina federal court in a Wednesday hearing.

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Hagens Berman Must Give Apple, Amazon Ethics Pros Docs

By Bryan Koenig

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP must give Apple and Amazon all the communications it shared with outside ethics experts as the firm fought allegations that it hid a consumer plaintiff's desire to exit an antitrust case, a Washington federal judge has ruled.

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Oak View CEO Pardoned 5 Months After Bid-Rigging Charge

By Rae Ann Varona

President Donald Trump has pardoned former Oak View Group CEO Tim Leiweke just five months after the U.S. Department of Justice charged him with rigging a bid to build and operate the Moody Center arena on the University of Texas at Austin campus.

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FCC OKs $1B UScellular Deal After AT&T Drops DEI Policies

By Nadia Dreid

AT&T got the Federal Communications Commission's approval for its $1 billion UScellular deal Wednesday, following in the wake of rivals Verizon and T-Mobile and becoming the latest of the big three mobile carriers to agree to do away with its diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

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AGs Say Sun, Taro Settlement Mustn't Touch State Claims

By Bryan Koenig

State attorneys general have asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to again ensure their claims remain untouched by a settlement between private plaintiffs and generic-drug makers in sprawling price-fixing litigation, this time focusing on a $200 million deal between Sun Pharmaceutical, Taro Pharmaceuticals and employee benefit plans.

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Okla. Cos. Hit Simon Property Group With Antitrust Suit

By Isaac Monterose

A group of Oklahoma-based companies accused retail-focused real estate investment trust Simon Property Group Inc. of waging "an anticompetitive campaign" to take down their competing mixed-use project in Oklahoma City.

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AT&T Sues Generic Drug Manufacturers, Alleging Price-Fixing

By P.J. D'Annunzio

AT&T has joined the bevy of litigants suing a swath of pharmaceutical companies over alleged generic drug price-fixing, claiming it shelled out billions of dollars for medication reimbursements to the drugmakers as part of its employee health plans when it could have spent far less if the drugs weren't subject to anticompetitive pricing.

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Party City Franchisees Want To Revamp Monopolization Case

By Emily Lever

Party City franchisees want to file an amended complaint in their case accusing the corporate retail chain of monopolizing the market before the court rules on a dismissal bid, the franchisees told a New Jersey federal court. 

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Kevin O'Leary, Company Execs Fight Patent Forgery Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A livestock technology company and several of its executives and investors, including Kevin O'Leary of "Shark Tank," have asked a Colorado federal judge to throw out the lawsuit against them by the company's founder, who claims the defendants stole her company and intellectual property.

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Nike 'Cool Compression' Case Not Exceptional, 3rd Circ. Told

By Matthew Santoni

Nike argued before the Third Circuit on Wednesday that its "cool compression" trademark litigation with clothing maker Lontex Corp. was not so "exceptional" that it should pay Lontex's attorney fees, which exceed $5 million, given that the trial court and Third Circuit had previously held that the Lanham Act case was a close one.

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GOP Expects G7 Side-By-Side Tax Deal Details This Week

By Asha Glover

The House Ways and Means Committee's top Republican expects negotiations to wrap up this week on the technical details of the agreement with the Group of Seven countries to exempt U.S. multinational corporations from the minimum-tax system, he said Wednesday.

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Greystar Reaches $24M Deal With Gov't In 'Hidden' Fees Suit

By Isaac Monterose

The major multifamily landlord Greystar, along with the Federal Trade Commission and the state of Colorado, asked a federal court to approve their $24 million settlement to end a lawsuit alleging the company wrongfully charged tenants "hidden" fees.

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FTC Focus: Amazon's $2.5B Pact Broadens Regulatory Span

Amazon's $2.5 billion deal with the Federal Trade Commission offers takeaways for counsel managing risk across both consumer protection and competition portfolios, including that design strategies once evaluated solely for conversion may now be scrutinized for their competitive effects, say attorneys at Proskauer.

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And Now A Word From The Panel: A New Rule For MDLs

With a new federal rule of civil procedure dedicated to multidistrict litigation practice taking effect this month, MDL watchers will be keeping on eye on whether the rule effectively serves its purpose of ensuring that only supportable claims proceed in MDLs, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Client-Led Litigation

New litigators can better help their corporate clients achieve their overall objectives when they move beyond simply fighting for legal victory to a client-led approach that resolves the legal dispute while balancing the company's competing out-of-court priorities, says Chelsea Ireland at Cohen Ziffer.

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High Billers At McKool Smith To Pocket Extra Bonus Money

By Tracey Read

McKool Smith is the latest BigLaw firm to announce extra cash for attorneys who went above and beyond with billable hours in 2025, according to an internal memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.

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Wilson Sonsini To Switch Leaders For 1st Time Since 2012

By Andrea Keckley

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC announced plans for its first top leadership transition in more than a decade on Wednesday, tapping a Palo Alto, California-based litigator and a New York-based corporate lawyer to begin co-leading the firm at the start of next August.

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Ex-Bernstein Litowitz Atty Starts Firm After Contentious Exit

By Adrian Cruz

A former Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP partner known for handling high-profile stockholder cases has led the launch of a boutique focused on corporate disputes and securities litigation after the firm says he was fired for misconduct.

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LA Atty Accused Of Using AI 'Hallucinations' Sanctioned

By Rae Ann Varona

A California state appeals court has ordered an attorney accused of including artificial intelligence "hallucinations" in a client's opening brief to pay $7,500 to the court, saying in a published opinion that the attorney is subject to sanctions for inaccuracies, regardless of whether they were the result of AI.

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Virginia Bar Declines To Investigate Interim US Atty Halligan

By Ryan Boysen

The Virginia State Bar has declined to investigate whether Lindsey Halligan should face discipline over her scandal-plagued tenure as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, just days after a federal judge ruled she was not properly appointed to that post.

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Trump Would Prefer Jack Smith Testify In Public

By Courtney Bublé

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, subpoenaed former counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday for a closed-door deposition, to which President Donald Trump said he would rather see a public testimony.

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1st Circ. Doubts Ex-BigLaw Atty's Campaign Finance Appeal

By Chris Villani

The First Circuit on Wednesday expressed misgivings about a former BigLaw attorney's argument that a jury that convicted him of a campaign finance scheme during a failed run for Congress should have been required to unanimously find that each specific transaction was illegal.

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Archegos Founder Says Davis Polk Job Offer Taints Restitution

By Lauren Berg

Archegos founder Bill Hwang, who is serving an 18-year sentence for defrauding banks out of billions of dollars in loans used to manipulate the market, asked to vacate his restitution order because the presiding judge's clerk accepted a job with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, which represents victim-bank Morgan Stanley.

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Troutman Atty Is 3rd NC Federal Judge Confirmed This Week

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 57-41 on Wednesday to confirm Matthew Orso, a partner at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, to the Western District of North Carolina as a federal district judge.

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Fed. Circ. Pushes DC Circ. Not To Rethink Newman Decision

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit has urged the D.C. Circuit to ignore Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request to rehear a decision upholding the dismissal of her suit against the colleagues who suspended her, saying the judiciary has the right to police its own internal matters.

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