WASHINGTON (LN) — The Justice Department argued Monday that the Noerr-Pennington doctrine should not protect 16 insurance companies from antitrust liability in a California class action alleging a group boycott of homeowners before the 2025 wildfires.
A Second Circuit panel affirmed that merchants using Square’s payment processing services are class members in the $5.7 billion antitrust settlement with Visa and Mastercard, rejecting arguments that they are indirect purchasers barred.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta added five states to his antitrust lawsuit against the broadcast merger, filing an amended complaint after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction halting the deal.
A law school applicant who paid $510 to process seven applications sued the nonprofit clearinghouse used by all 197 ABA-approved law schools, claiming it fixed prices and monopolized the application market.
A union welfare fund and two firefighters' benefit plans allege Takeda engineered a market-allocation scheme that kept the price of a colchicine pill above $6 a tablet for years.
The District of Hawaii has dismissed a private antitrust lawsuit seeking to unwind the merger between Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, holding that plaintiffs failed to plausibly allege valid geographic markets or anticompetitive effects in their...
Judge Jane J. Boyle of the Northern District of Texas has stayed discovery in an antitrust lawsuit filed by X Corp. against more than 40 music publishers, ruling that the expected burden of discovery and the strength of the defendants' motion to dismiss...
Newsmax Broadcasting, LLC’s antitrust lawsuit against Fox Corporation and Fox News Network has been transferred to the Southern District of Florida after Judge William M. Conley determined the plaintiff engaged in forum shopping by voluntarily dismissing a...
A Dallas federal judge froze discovery in X Corp.'s sweeping antitrust lawsuit against more than 40 music publishers, ruling that the expected burden of antitrust discovery combined with the strength of the publishers' pending motion to dismiss justifies...
The 11th Circuit affirmed the dismissal of antitrust claims brought by StarPro, Greens, Inc. and Daniel Selton against Polyloom Corporation of America and Challenger Turf, Inc., ruling that the complaint failed to plausibly allege monopoly power in the...
New York and Tennessee attorneys general secured a unanimous jury verdict finding that Live Nation and Ticketmaster maintain illegal monopolies in the live events industry, driving up ticket prices for fans.
A federal magistrate judge denied the government's eve-of-trial motion to depose Agri Stats about settlements it reached in three related private antitrust MDLs, ruling the request was both untimely and procedurally defective.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has released largely unredacted evidence from a preliminary injunction filing, revealing Amazon’s alleged scheme to collude with vendors and competitors to artificially raise retail prices.
A multistate coalition led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a verdict in New York federal court holding Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its subsidiary Ticketmaster LLC liable for monopolizing markets in the ticketing and live entertainment...
The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has transferred additional antitrust lawsuits alleging misconduct in the fire apparatus market to the Eastern District of Wisconsin for coordinated pretrial proceedings.
A federal court granted a preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar Media Group's merger with Tegna Inc., New York Attorney General Letitia James said, in a case brought by a coalition of eight state attorneys general who sued last month alleging the deal...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of California on Friday issued a preliminary injunction requiring Nexstar Media Group to preserve TEGNA Inc. as a separate entity pending trial, finding DIRECTV and eight states are likely to succeed on their claim...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of California granted a preliminary injunction halting Nexstar Media Group's acquisition of TEGNA Inc., finding that plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the deal violates Section 7 of...
A former U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant has pleaded guilty to a nine-year conspiracy that the Justice Department says inflated information technology contracts for Pacific Air Forces installations by at least $37 million, with proceeds funneled to the...