/competition?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Competition Copyright 2025 saąúĽĘ´«Ă˝. en-US Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:00:11 +0000 /competition/articles/2406769?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406769 Disney has sought to put the blame at YouTube's feet over the blackout of Disney programs on YouTube TV that stemmed from a breakdown of carriage talks, as the cable industry called for congressional reforms to stop future blackouts from happening. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:49:13 +0000 /competition/articles/2406788?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406788 Real estate brokerage Compass Inc. told a New York federal court Friday that an update on Zillow's website regarding its implementation of an allegedly anticompetitive policy only provides further support for its request to block the policy, days ahead of a preliminary injunction hearing. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:21:32 +0000 /competition/articles/2406733?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406733 The U.S. Department of Justice has requested additional information about Nexstar's planned $6.2 billion purchase of rival broadcast company Tegna, extending a waiting period that gives enforcers time to review the merger's impact on competition. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:57:57 +0000 /competition/articles/2405841?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2405841 The use of divestitures and Hart-Scott-Rodino Act compliance in the recent U.S. Department of Justice settlement with UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys underscores the DOJ Antitrust Division's willingness to utilize merger remedies under the second Trump administration, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:53:58 +0000 /competition/articles/2406825?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406825 A group of landlords urged a Tennessee federal court to reject arguments lodged by several attorneys general who criticized $141.8 million worth of proposed antitrust settlements that aim to resolve multidistrict litigation accusing the landlords of using property management software company RealPage Inc.'s technology for rent price fixing. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:20:46 +0000 /competition/articles/2406640?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406640 From billion-dollar pharma feuds to shifting equity deadlines, Delaware's courts saw another week of battles over mergers, fiduciary duty and judicial limits. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:18:08 +0000 /competition/articles/2405445?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2405445 Though the Model Rules of Professional Conduct make clear that a violation of the rules does not automatically create a cause of action, attorneys should beware of a few scenarios in which they could face lawsuits for ethical lapses, says Brian Faughnan at Faughnan Law. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 23:52:26 +0000 /competition/articles/2406490?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406490 Pfizer Inc. filed suit Friday in Delaware Chancery Court to stop Metsera from terminating their multibillion-dollar merger agreement, saying in a complaint filed the same day it secured early antitrust clearance that Novo Nordisk's bid to step in with a $9 billion buyout proposal is nothing but an "old-fashioned bribe." Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:45:15 +0000 /competition/articles/2406493?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406493 A Connecticut federal judge on Friday refused to throw out the vast majority of claims in a nationwide antitrust enforcement action accusing a long list of pharmaceutical companies of fixing the prices of generic dermatology drugs, rejecting the companies' argument that the claims were filed too late. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:37:11 +0000 /competition/articles/2406419?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406419 Amgen has once again sued Colorado over its price cap for the arthritis drug Enbrel, claiming that the Centennial State's drug price-control statute violates the U.S. Constitution, conflicts with federal patent law and threatens patients' access to lifesaving medications. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:08 +0000 /competition/articles/2404288?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2404288 In this installment of Wheeling & Appealing, November's appellate calendar features a Trump lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, New York City housing disputes, drug pricing battles, immigrant rights cases, and challenges to so-called patent troll laws. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:46:37 +0000 /competition/articles/2406509?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406509 The Justice Department battled with state attorneys general trying to peek behind its controversial settlement clearing Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Juniper purchase, United Kingdom officials deepened their probe into Getty's proposed acquisition of Shutterstock and Pfizer cried foul when Novo Nordisk tried to swoop in over its Metsera purchase. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:07:33 +0000 /competition/articles/2406377?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406377 Millions of U.K. electricity customers suing power cable manufacturers over an alleged price-fixing cartel suffered a setback when a tribunal ruled that losses suffered by offshore wind farms were not passed on to electricity bill payers through a government subsidy scheme. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:29:45 +0000 /competition/articles/2406196?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406196 OpenAI waded into the Justice Department's case against Google's search monopoly Friday to urge the D.C. federal judge to apply flexibility to mandates requiring Google to syndicate its search results to would-be rivals, arguing that permitting Google's more rigid "ten blue links" proposal would stifle "innovative uses." Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:07:25 +0000 /competition/articles/2406188?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406188 Polyvinyl chloride pipe manufacturers facing antitrust claims over 2020 price increases have told an Illinois federal judge the purchaser plaintiffs have failed to plausibly show there was a per se price-fixing conspiracy, so their suit should be dismissed. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:37:55 +0000 /competition/articles/2405910?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2405910 Federal officials need to update rules governing low Earth orbit satellites to allow the space-based communications industry to keep expanding at a time of rising congestion, according to a pair of think tanks. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:33:34 +0000 /competition/articles/2406174?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406174 A California federal court refused a bid from Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. to pause CoStar Group Inc.'s "mass" infringement claims so they can be tried alongside CREXi's recently revived antitrust counterclaims. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:30:18 +0000 /competition/articles/2406011?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406011 Alphabet Inc. investors have asked a California federal judge to grant class certification in a suit against the Google parent company and its CEO, Sundar Pichai, over an allegedly false statement made to Congress in 2020 about the fairness of ad auctions, arguing it is a "textbook example of a case warranting class action treatment." Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:55:27 +0000 /competition/articles/2406208?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406208 The arrival of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' latest annual report suggests that the Trump administration's "America First" policy will have a measurable effect on foreign investment, including improved trendlines for investments from allied sources and increasingly negative trendlines for those from foreign adversary sources, say attorneys at Debevoise. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:19:08 +0000 /competition/articles/2406172?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2406172 Getty Images said Friday it has signed a multiyear image licensing agreement with artificial intelligence-powered search engine company Perplexity, in a move that comes as the visual media giant's $3.7 billion merger with Shutterstock remains under regulatory review.