/competition?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Competition Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:49:31 +0000 /competition/articles/2371924?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2371924 The Chinese companies behind cannabis vape brand CCell have urged a California federal court to dismiss a consolidated consumer class action accusing it of orchestrating a price-fixing scheme, accusing the buyers of "padding" their amended complaint with "copy-pasted" passages from other, unrelated lawsuits. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:55:11 +0000 /competition/articles/2372519?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2372519 Insurance brokerage and risk management giant Marsh & McLennan Cos. sued U.S. affiliates of London-based Howden Holdings Ltd. in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Friday, alleging Howden arranged a mass "lift out" of M&M employees and clients around the country. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:16:01 +0000 /competition/articles/2372357?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2372357 The Second Circuit on Friday upheld a lower court order granting class certification to a group of American cities and others that are accusing eight large banks of inflating interest rates on debt securities known as variable rate demand obligations, saying the district court applied the correct legal standard in granting certification. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:19:03 +0000 /competition/articles/2372482?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2372482 A Texas federal judge Friday gave Texas and other states the go-ahead to pursue claims that BlackRock Inc. and other asset managers used market muscle to decrease coal production, saying the states plausibly showed that the asset managers breached antitrust laws. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:15:46 +0000 /competition/articles/2371969?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2371969 A New Mexico federal judge gave an initial OK to two settlements between a class of dairy farmers and two national milk cooperatives dropping price-fixing claims in exchange for $34.4 million and an end to the alleged scheme. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:12:32 +0000 /competition/articles/2372447?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2372447 A quartet of Senate Democrats called Friday for the U.S. Department of Justice's internal watchdog to look for "improper business and political considerations" in the settlement permitting Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:45:07 +0000 /competition/articles/2372395?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2372395 Consumers urged a Washington federal judge on Friday to certify a class of nearly 300 million in a sweeping antitrust case against Amazon, contending they all paid inflated prices because the e-commerce giant forced an "anti-discount policy" on merchants and monitored marketplace rates to ensure compliance. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:37:10 +0000 /competition/articles/2372291?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2372291 The U.S. Department of Justice abandoned its challenge of a corporate travel management deal, while lawmakers are calling for scrutiny of the agency's recent decision to settle a different case, and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to nix the requirements placed on a pair of oil and gas deals. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:56:27 +0000 /competition/articles/2367457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2367457 After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:44:43 +0000 /competition/articles/2372349?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2372349 The Ninth Circuit on Friday granted Google's same-day request for an emergency administrative pause on a looming deadline to open up the tech giant's Play Store to alternative app distribution after the appellate court upheld a landmark antitrust win for Epic Games. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:30:19 +0000 /competition/articles/2370698?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2370698 Big Tech firms are increasingly turning to so-called reverse acquihires to quickly secure talent and technology, but as these deals grow in size and frequency, they may invite the very regulatory scrutiny the strategy is designed to avoid. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:07:28 +0000 /competition/articles/2371446?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2371446 Legislation working its way through the Pennsylvania Legislature this year includes bids to expand the state's consumer protection law to make it harder for companies to lock customers into automatically renewing subscriptions and for landlords to use software to collaborate with one another to inflate rents. Here are some bills to watch in the latter half of 2025. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:28:56 +0000 /competition/articles/2372207?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2372207 A veteran Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP antitrust litigator has made the jump to Latham & Watkins LLP in New York, the firm announced Friday. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:17:30 +0000 /competition/articles/2371438?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2371438 In contrast with the Biden administration, the second Trump administration has signaled a renewed willingness to resolve merger enforcement concerns through remedies from the outset, particularly when the proposed fix is structural, clearly addresses the harm and does not require burdensome oversight, say attorneys at Cooley. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:33:33 +0000 /competition/articles/2371390?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2371390 The North Carolina General Assembly has pushed through another round of hurricane relief aid to help the western swath of the state while lawmakers remain in talks to repeal a long-standing healthcare law that critics say hampers competition. Here are five North Carolina bills from the year's first half that saw the governor's stamp of approval or remain up for debate. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:29:54 +0000 /competition/articles/2372159?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2372159 A California federal judge will block Johnson & Johnson's Biosense Webster from refusing clinical support for its Carto cardio mapping systems from hospitals that use competitors' cardiac catheters, requiring the company to institute nondiscriminatory pricing for its services at hospitals regardless of which products they use. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:26:12 +0000 /competition/articles/2372379?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2372379 In this week's Taxation With Representation, Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. announce megamerger plans, Palo Alto Networks acquires identity security company CyberArk, Brookfield buys British life insurer Just Group, and Duke Energy sells its Piedmont Natural Gas Tennessee local distribution business to Spire Inc. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:47:52 +0000 /competition/articles/2372122?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2372122 BT customers lost their attempt Friday to revive a £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) class action against the telecommunications giant, after the Court of Appeal ruled there was nothing wrong with the assessment of evidence used to decided whether the company charged excessive and unfair prices.  Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:28:02 +0000 /competition/articles/2371706?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2371706 Pandora Media told a California federal judge on Wednesday that a special master was right to recommend handing it a summary judgment win in high-stakes copyright infringement litigation by a group of comedians who allege that the streaming service lacked licenses for the underlying jokes in their comedy routines. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:59:03 +0000 /competition/articles/2371682?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2371682 A professional pharmacy organization and a group of teaching hospitals teed up motions to dismiss Wednesday against proposed class action allegations that they conspired to restrict wages and benefits by funneling new pharmacists through a job-matching program, telling a Maryland federal judge that there's no sign of an agreement.