/competition?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Competition Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US 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 Â鶹´«Ã½360 Real Estate Authority — including an inside look at California's Builder's Remedy, aggressive moves by South Korean mezzanine lenders, and why one BigÂ鶹´«Ã½ 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. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:57:56 +0000 /competition/articles/2352936?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2352936 A Delaware federal judge has dismissed Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail's antitrust claims over rail giant Wabtec's 2019 merger with General Electric's transportation unit but refused to dismiss breach of contract and other claims. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:32:53 +0000 /competition/articles/2353354?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2353354 Colorado's recently enacted Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act makes it the second state to add such a requirement, reflecting a growing trend and underscoring the need for merging parties to plan for a more complex and multilayered notification landscape for deals, say Puja Patel and Noa Gur-Arie at Cleary. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:57:09 +0000 /competition/articles/2350511?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2350511 Virginia's recently amended consumer protection law requiring sellers to display the total price rather than expressly prohibiting surcharges follows New York's recent revision of its antisurcharge statute and may raise similar First Amendment questions, says attorneys at Stinson. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:07:18 +0000 /competition/articles/2329140?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2329140 Speaking to elementary school students about the importance of college and other opportunities after high school — especially students who may not see those paths reflected in their daily lives — not only taught me the importance of giving back, but also helped to sharpen several skills essential to a successful legal practice, says Guillermo Escobedo at Constangy. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:40:22 +0000 /competition/articles/2352547?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2352547 Google is once again asking a California federal judge to trim Yelp's case accusing it of monopolizing the local search market, arguing that the reworked complaint doesn't fix deficiencies the court pointed out in a dismissal order earlier this year. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:10:28 +0000 /competition/articles/2352322?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2352322 The Florida Attorney General's Office and Sandoz Inc. have told a Connecticut federal court they've fixed the problems the court identified with a generic drug price-fixing settlement after other states with claims in the case objected to a clause in the deal. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:46:15 +0000 /competition/articles/2352841?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2352841 The Eighth Circuit on Thursday backed a lower court's preliminary injunction blocking a Minnesota law that prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturers from imposing an "excessive" price increase on generic or biosimilar drugs, agreeing that the law is likely unconstitutional in regulating prices charged nationwide. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:44:30 +0000 /competition/articles/2352717?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2352717 Concertgoers suing Live Nation over allegedly anticompetitive conduct urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday not to take up the company's bid to force them into arbitration, arguing that lower courts rightly dinged a switch to a new arbitrator with strict rules meant to limit mass arbitration tactics by the plaintiffs' bar.