/competition?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Competition Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:39:07 +0000 /competition/articles/2387655?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387655 Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail is trying "yet again" to "turn what are, at most, contract disputes into an antitrust lawsuit" after its claims against rail giant Wabtec over its 2019 merger with General Electric's transportation unit failed the first time around, a Delaware federal court has been told. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:03:13 +0000 /competition/articles/2387692?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387692 The Kroger Co. does not have to turn over documents to Albertsons Cos. Inc. concerning former Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen's abrupt exit, the Delaware Chancery Court ruled Friday, saying that personal conduct that prompted McMullen's resignation wasn't relevant to Albertsons' litigation claims over the grocery chains' failed $25 billion merger. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:55:14 +0000 /competition/articles/2387572?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387572 Dentons has officially escaped allegations it helped the founder of vape distributor Next Level sabotage and usurp manufacturer Avid Holdings' brand, in part by hacking into its founder's laptop to access confidential information, according to newly filed documents. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:43:39 +0000 /competition/articles/2387523?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387523 By no longer measuring factors like broadband affordability, the Federal Communications Commission has unacceptably trimmed its yearly look at the state of deployment, just like the old vaudeville joke about "blue plate specials" devoid of food, an advocacy group said. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:00:31 +0000 /competition/articles/2387251?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387251 The U.S. Department of Justice sought to show a Maryland federal judge a key document from its settlement talks with Wayne-Sanderson Farms, arguing it underscores that the poultry producer wanted to keep sharing wage information, only for the company to be told no. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:58:52 +0000 /competition/articles/2387665?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387665 The countdown for Google to open up the Play Store is ticking down again after the Ninth Circuit again affirmed district court monopolization findings. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:43:09 +0000 /competition/articles/2387535?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387535 Amazon has told a Seattle federal judge that the Federal Trade Commission can't subpoena the company itself for a testimony at an upcoming trial over allegations that it tricked customers into Prime subscriptions and prevented them from undoing their membership, arguing subpoenas that do not name individuals "skirt the rules." Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:34:03 +0000 /competition/articles/2387249?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387249 An Illinois federal court on Thursday refused a bid from a Deere & Co. competitor asking for reconsideration of an order denying a bid to block the distribution of confidential information produced during the Federal Trade Commission's right-to-repair investigation into the farming equipment company. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:11:47 +0000 /competition/articles/2387676?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387676 A Delaware federal jury awarded Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals almost $9.5 million on Friday, finding that French industrial gas company Airgas Healthcare infringed patents covering its inhaled nitric oxide treatment. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:47:26 +0000 /competition/articles/2387496?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387496 Hytera Communications Corp. has urged an Illinois federal judge to reject Motorola Solutions' bid to hold it in contempt for using subsidiary sale funds to pay off lenders instead of paying Motorola what it's owed under a trade secrets judgment, arguing it shouldn't be punished for conducting ordinary business. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:57:31 +0000 /competition/articles/2387403?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387403 The Ninth Circuit refused to reconsider a panel's decision finding that a long-standing arrangement between the Las Vegas Sun and the Las Vegas Review-Journal is unlawful because the rival newspapers needed approval from the U.S. attorney general. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:51:51 +0000 /competition/articles/2387536?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387536 Rapper Snoop Dogg's ice cream brand is seeking a Connecticut federal judge's help to dodge a claim that its use of the word "Swizzle" is an act of trademark infringement, asking for the court to declare that Edible Arrangements is illegally trying to create a monopoly. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:48:16 +0000 /competition/articles/2387526?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387526 Nothing "stands out" from a successful trademark case brought by OpenAI against Open Artificial Intelligence Inc., the latter company told a California federal judge, urging the court to deny OpenAI's request to make it pay $10 million in attorney fees. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:54:59 +0000 /competition/articles/2387519?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387519 In this week's Off The Bench, the NCAA administered permanent bans to three basketball players, and two high-profile politicians warned the WNBA that it could be at risk of violating antitrust laws if it interferes in the sale of the Connecticut Sun. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:29:02 +0000 /competition/articles/2385567?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385567 As lawyers increasingly use autonomous artificial intelligence agents, disciplinary authorities must decide whether attorney responsibility for an AI-caused legal ethics violation is personal or supervisory, and firms must enact strong policies regarding agentic AI use and supervision, says Grace Wynn at HWG. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:23:31 +0000 /competition/articles/2386968?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2386968 A former salesman for auto warranty underwriter Assurant called on a federal judge Thursday to release him from the company's suit alleging he hatched a conspiracy to poach clients and steal records, arguing his old employer had blown up a "garden-variety business dispute" into a bogus racketeering claim. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:28:18 +0000 /competition/articles/2386899?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2386899 Drug companies accused of fixing prices for generics are seeking to disqualify former Connecticut Assistant Attorney General Joseph Nielsen and his law firm from representing insurers in a multidistrict litigation, arguing Nielsen had access to confidential information as a government attorney that he could unfairly use against them now. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:04:55 +0000 /competition/articles/2387378?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387378 European Union antitrust officials signed off Friday on Microsoft's plans to offer cheaper Office 365 suites without the Teams collaboration platform in order to avoid a potentially hefty fine for past policies shackling the two services together. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:06:05 +0000 /competition/articles/2387400?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387400 Newsmax dropped its antitrust claims against Fox Corp. late Thursday night, just before the deadline to file an amended complaint, and immediately refiled them in Wisconsin. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:57:42 +0000 /competition/articles/2387323?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2387323 The representative of a £650 million ($881 million) collective action against Motorola urged a London tribunal on Friday to certify the unfair pricing case as an opt-out claim, arguing that this would prevent alleged victims from being denied justice.