/competition?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Competition Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:28:35 +0000 /competition/articles/2353657?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353657 The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to push the deadline for its prison phone rate caps back by one year for a company that has argued it needs more time, but it's still standing by the need for those caps at the First Circuit. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:15:17 +0000 /competition/articles/2353741?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353741 The Fourth Circuit has kept its revival of a no-poach wage-fixing case against some of the nation's biggest warship makers intact, rejecting a petition to rehear the case en banc after a three-judge panel kicked it back to district court last month. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:24:39 +0000 /competition/articles/2353748?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353748 Internet voice call providers are asking the Federal Communications Commission to preempt California from enforcing new rules that the providers consider "overreach" in regulating the businesses. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:12:18 +0000 /competition/articles/2354030?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2354030 A California federal judge refused Monday to dismiss a proposed class action accusing Apple of maintaining a monopoly by keeping "full-service" cloud storage functionality limited to its own iCloud service while barring third-party cloud storage from accessing all files on iPhones and iPads. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:53:42 +0000 /competition/articles/2353468?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353468 Ohio urged the Sixth Circuit to send its case accusing Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics of driving up prescription drug prices through rebate schemes back to state court, arguing the case doesn't target any federal government work by the pharmacy benefit managers. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:48:08 +0000 /competition/articles/2353826?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353826 Live Nation's chosen arbitration firm is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the concert giant's bid to force concertgoers into arbitration, arguing its procedures are fair, and it was wrongly dinged for what the Ninth Circuit called "internally inconsistent, poorly drafted" arbitration rules. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:38:44 +0000 /competition/articles/2353493?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353493 A water filtration company accusing Clorox Co. and its Brita brand of a "patent ambush" to corner the market on home water filters has told a Pennsylvania federal court it needs assistance obtaining emails Clorox purportedly admitted to getting rid of through an auto-delete policy. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:07:50 +0000 /competition/articles/2353580?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353580 An organization that collects royalties for musicians in the U.K. continued its fight on Monday to fend off a claim brought by the drummer of rock band Blur, who alleges it unfairly distributes money, branding the case as "exceptionally weak." Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:04:51 +0000 /competition/articles/2342954?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2342954 President Donald Trump has approved the long-delayed deal between U.S. Steel and Japan's Nippon Steel, the companies said Friday, following a protracted, 18-month saga that included a block of the transaction by President Joe Biden. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:37:07 +0000 /competition/articles/2353360?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353360 AbbVie Inc. on Thursday filed suit in Colorado federal court seeking to block an incoming state law it alleges conflicts with the federal 340B drug discount program by forcing pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell drugs at steep discounts to commercial pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:31:44 +0000 /competition/articles/2353487?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353487 The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday it is investigating potential price-fixing in the fragrance industry and asked a New Jersey federal judge for permission to intervene in litigation accusing fragrance giants of conspiring to reduce competition, saying it needs to protect the criminal investigation. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:17:30 +0000 /competition/articles/2353155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353155 Hotel chains and their "benchmarking" software provider are telling an Illinois federal judge that the latest version of a proposed price-fixing class action is no better than the one that got dismissed in March, and that the plaintiff still hasn't alleged that the hotel groups ever communicated with each other. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:08:03 +0000 /competition/articles/2352554?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2352554 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from ¼«ËÙÈü³µ Real Estate Authority — including an inside look at California's Builder's Remedy, aggressive moves by South Korean mezzanine lenders, and why one BigLaw hospitality leader says hotels are "scared to death."  Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:01:04 +0000 /competition/articles/2353476?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353476 The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday told the Virginia federal court overseeing its ad tech monopolization case against Google that the search giant is still withholding documents analyzing a potential breakup of its ad tech business despite an order last month requiring it to produce the material.  Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:36:23 +0000 /competition/articles/2353302?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353302 Innovative Health is seeking a permanent injunction that would ban Johnson & Johnson health tech unit Biosense Webster from conditioning the provision of cardiac mapping services on purchases of cardiac catheters, after Innovative Health netted a $442 million trial win on its antitrust claims. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:21:51 +0000 /competition/articles/2353349?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353349 Liberty Latin America Ltd. has reached a consent decree with the Federal Communications Commission to pay $24,000 and adopt a compliance plan to resolve an investigation into whether it violated foreign ownership limits. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:19:11 +0000 /competition/articles/2353391?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353391 The Ninth Circuit on Friday declined to revive an attorney's claims alleging the California State Bar violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by not granting extra time to respond to disciplinary action based on outstanding debt, finding the bar, as an arm of the state, is entitled to sovereign immunity. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:11:03 +0000 /competition/articles/2353147?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353147 A proposed class of home sellers urged a Missouri federal court to deny two brokerages' second request to stay proceedings against them in a consolidated antitrust broker fees class action while they finalize a parallel settlement in what sellers have called "copycat" proceedings in Georgia. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:57:12 +0000 /competition/articles/2353165?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353165 Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. is urging the D.C. Circuit to reverse a lower court decision upholding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of a generic sleep-disorder drug without Braille labeling, a move the company argues jeopardizes patient safety. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:49:09 +0000 /competition/articles/2353257?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353257 A North Carolina federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing a Texas-based patent owner of trying to extort a license from software company Red Hat Inc., finding the court has authority to hear the dispute.