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March 03, 2025
9th Circ. Rejects Redo Of Antitrust Case Against Zillow, NAR
The Ninth Circuit on Monday said it would not revive a defunct brokerage platform's case accusing Zillow and the National Association of Realtors of deception related to the online real estate company's website, saying there was no conspiracy in the way changes were made to how listings were displayed.
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March 03, 2025
Colo. Prospector Didn't Steal Anschutz Oil Secrets, Jury Told
A Colorado prospector told a Denver state jury on Monday that its $9 million sale of land next to Anschutz-owned oil and gas wells was not the result of stolen well production data, arguing Anschutz Exploration Corp. has no proof the prospector stole secret statistics.
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March 03, 2025
Full Fed. Circ. Won't Take On Teva's Orange Book Appeal
The Federal Circuit on Monday rejected a request for an en banc rehearing from Teva Pharmaceuticals challenging a panel decision finding that the company improperly listed its asthma inhaler patents on a key U.S. Food and Drug Administration database that lists patents for drugs.
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March 03, 2025
Apple Gets ICloud Monopoly Suit Tossed For Now
Apple has convinced a California federal judge to toss a proposed class action accusing it of flouting federal antitrust laws by blocking third-party cloud storage services from accessing and storing certain files on its smartphones, at least temporarily.
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March 03, 2025
American Asks Justices To Mull Bid To Revive JetBlue Pact
American Airlines has told the U.S. Supreme Court that the First Circuit flouted basic antitrust principles when it invalidated the carrier's codeshare agreement with JetBlue in Boston and New York, a decision that "threatens to wreak havoc on productive collaborations of all shapes and sizes."
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March 03, 2025
Credit Bureaus Look To Duck Renewed Medical Debt Claims
Equifax, Experian and TransUnion asked a California federal judge Monday to toss an updated case accusing the credit reporting agencies of violating antitrust law by agreeing to exclude medical debt under $500 from consumer credit reports.
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March 03, 2025
Sandoz Settles Florida's Generic Drug Price-Fixing Claims
Sandoz AG reached a settlement with Florida that ends federal antitrust claims the Sunshine State lodged against the drugmaker within wider litigation claiming numerous pharmaceutical companies and individuals participated in a conspiracy to fix generic drug prices, according to a Friday court filing.
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March 03, 2025
Teva Should Face Key Copaxone Antitrust Claims, Court Told
Mylan and pharmaceutical wholesalers should be allowed to proceed with some, but not all, parallel claims accusing Teva of using regulatory deception, false advertising, improper rebates and more to delay generic competition to its Copaxone multiple sclerosis treatment, a special master has recommended in New Jersey federal court.
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March 03, 2025
Tobacco, Cannabis Cos. Score Partial Wins In TM Fight
An Arizona federal court judge has issued a mixed ruling on dueling summary judgment bids in a trademark lawsuit over a tobacco company and a cannabis company's shared use of the word "Raw" in branding.
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March 03, 2025
Texas High Court Told Telecom Law Clears State Constitution
Texas is hoping its highest court will overturn a ruling that found the state violated its own constitutional rules about gift-giving by capping the amount cities can charge telecoms for using their rights-of-way to such a degree that they were basically forced to give away public money.
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March 03, 2025
DOJ Opposes Anthropic's Amicus Bid In Google Search Case
The U.S. Department of Justice is telling a D.C. federal judge to keep Anthropic PBC out of the remedies phase of its search antitrust case against Google, arguing that the artificial intelligence company is trying to backdoor its way to intervenor privileges through an amicus curiae request.
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March 03, 2025
Sutter Settles Years-Old Antitrust Suit On Courthouse Steps
Attorneys for a class of millions of health insurance premium payors announced an eleventh hour deal staving off a new antitrust trial Monday in California federal court over claims that hospital chain Sutter Health drives up costs by pushing all-or-nothing network deals on insurers.
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March 03, 2025
Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
Japan's Nippon Steel is challenging a decision blocking its $14.9 billion merger with U.S. Steel Corp. on national security grounds, as door manufacturer Jeld-Wen continues fighting a landmark order forcing it to sell a Pennsylvania factory and the Justice Department pushes cases targeting mergers in the home health, networking and corporate travel spaces.
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March 03, 2025
Ga. Baseball Player Chases Eligibility, Seeks Judge Recusal
A University of Georgia baseball player fighting to secure another year of eligibility has asked a federal judge to reconsider his denial of the request and to also recuse himself, alleging the judge failed to disclose himself as an official of the NCAA.
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March 03, 2025
Bulk Mail Buyers Seek Go Ahead For £878M Royal Mail Claim
A representative for potentially 290,000 retail businesses asked Britain's competition tribunal on Monday to certify a £878.5 million ($1.1 billion) class action against the owner of Royal Mail for abusing its dominant position in the bulk mail market.
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February 28, 2025
Align Tech Deal Directs Buyers To A Monopolist, Judge Says
A California federal judge has soundly rejected Align Technologies Inc.'s proposed $27.5 million antitrust settlement with teeth-aligner buyers, slamming Align as a monopolist and saying that the deal "will direct still more customers to the monopolist."
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February 28, 2025
T-Mobile Touts Broadband Benefits Of US Cellular Deal
T-Mobile continues to make its case to the Federal Communications Commission in the hopes of earning the agency's blessing on the mobile behemoth's $4.4 billion plan to pick up rival UScellular's wireless business since it holds the key to the transfer of all the latter company's licenses.
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February 28, 2025
Trump Admin Cuts Raise Trade Secret Security Concerns
As the Trump administration reduces the size of the federal government, intellectual property attorneys are expressing concerns about the continued safeguarding of trade secrets that companies are required to disclose to certain agencies.
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February 28, 2025
NJ Out-Of-State Wine Sale Limits Are Justified, 3rd. Circ. Says
The Third Circuit on Friday upheld a New Jersey law barring out-of-state sellers to directly ship wine to in-state consumers, saying that to grant a New York retailer's challenge would "shake the foundations" of New Jersey's three-tiered system for regulating alcohol.
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February 28, 2025
Robotic Surgery Co. Appealing Tossed Intuitive Antitrust Case
Surgical Instrument Service Co. Inc. is appealing to the Ninth Circuit after a California federal court tossed its $140 million antitrust case accusing Intuitive Surgical Inc. of blocking third parties from refurbishing components for its popular da Vinci surgery robot at the end of trial.
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February 28, 2025
Amazon Sellers Don't Infringe Chair Patent, New Suits Say
Two Amazon sellers have sued outdoor furniture maker ShelterLogic Corp. in Washington federal court, claiming the company used the commerce giant's Patent Evaluation Express proceedings to falsely accuse them of selling products that infringe its foldable chair patent.
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February 28, 2025
La. Regulators Ask Justices To Review Tesla Sales Ban Case
Louisiana regulators have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review Tesla's case over the state's ban on direct sales by automakers, saying the presence of car dealership owners on a regulatory board does not violate the electric-car company's due process rights.
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February 28, 2025
Strike 2 For Ga. Baseball Player's Eligibility Bid Against NCAA
A Georgia federal judge declined to restore the eligibility of a University of Georgia baseball player Friday, saying that the NCAA's "five-year rule" preventing him from playing this season was "not commercial in nature" and thus didn't violate antitrust law.
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February 28, 2025
Missouri Judge Won't Step Aside From Plastics Recycling Suit
A Missouri federal judge denied petrochemical companies' request that he recuse himself from a proposed class action accusing them of misleading people about plastic's recyclability due to his wife's position as a Kansas City council member.
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February 28, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the billionaire Zakay brothers, founders of Topland Group, become embroiled in a legal dispute with each other, Unilever sue three major perfume companies over alleged illegal price-fixing, and the publisher of Vogue magazine file an intellectual property suit against Cornucopia Events. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
Expert Analysis
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Recent Suits Show Antitrust Agencies' Focus On HSR Review
The U.S. Department of Justice's suit this month against KKR for inaccurate and incomplete premerger filings, along with other recent cases, highlights the agency's increasing scrutiny of Hart-Scott-Rodino Act compliance for private equity firms, say attorneys at Willkie.
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Private-Bidding Compliance Lessons From Siemens Plea Deal
Siemens Energy’s recent wire fraud conspiracy guilty plea shows that U.S. prosecutors are willing and able to police the private, domestic bidding market to protect the integrity of the competitive marketplace, and companies will need a robust compliance program to mitigate these risks, say attorneys at Foley Hoag.
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FTC Report On AI Sector Illuminates Future Enforcement
The Federal Trade Commission's report on cloud service providers and their partnerships with developers of artificial intelligence's large language models suggests that the agency will move to rein in Big Tech with antitrust enforcement to protect startups, say attorneys at Squire Patton.
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Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year
Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.
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Algorithm Price-Fixing Ruling May Lower Antitrust Claims Bar
A Washington federal court's refusal to dismiss Duffy v. Yardi Systems, an antitrust case over rent prices allegedly inflated by revenue management software, creates an apparent split in the lower courts over how to assess such claims, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025
Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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How FTC Sent A $5.6M Warning Against Jumping The Gun
The Federal Trade Commission's recent record $5.6 million "gun jumping" action against Verdun Oil, for allegedly exerting control over EP Energy before the mandatory waiting period under U.S. antitrust law expired, warns companies that they must continue to operate independently during review, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.
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Predicting Where State AGs Will Direct Their Attention In 2025
In 2025, we expect state attorneys general will navigate a new presidential administration while continuing to further regulate and police financial services, artificial intelligence, junk fees and antitrust, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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A Look At FDA's Plans To Establish New OTC Drug Category
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recently finalized rule, creating a new over-the-counter pathway for drugs when patients satisfy certain conditions, may be useful for off-patent drugs with established safety records, though switching to OTC comes with additional costs and considerations, say attorneys at Skadden.
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Chancery May Have Raised Bar For Books, Records Requests
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently approved the denial of a books and records demand against Amazon, raising important questions about what evidence and purpose a stockholder is required to show to succeed on such a request, say attorneys at Selendy Gay.
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FTC Privacy Enforcement Takeaways From 2024
In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission distinguished three prominent trends in its privacy-related enforcement actions: geolocation data protections, data minimization practices, and artificial intelligence use and marketing, say Cobun Zweifel-Keegan at IAPP and James Smith at Dechert.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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Mass Arbitration Procedures After Faulty Live Nation Ruling
Despite the Ninth Circuit's flawed reasoning in Heckman v. Live Nation, the exceptional allegations of collusive conduct shouldn't be read to restrict arbitration providers that have adopted good faith procedures to ensure that consumer mass arbitrations can be efficiently resolved on the merits, says Collin Vierra at Eimer Stahl.
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How DOGE's Bite Can Live Up To Its Bark
All signs suggest that the Department of Government Efficiency will be an important part of the new Trump administration, with ample tools at its disposal to effectuate change, particularly with an attentive Republican-controlled Congress, say attorneys at K&L Gates.