/competition?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Competition Copyright 2025 À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. en-US Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:46:49 +0000 /competition/articles/2385210?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385210 A lawsuit accusing a college consultant of breaching a contract with a former franchising company is nothing more than a "play for leverage" in an ongoing legal battle crossing state lines, consultant Gurpartap "Sunny" Grewal told a North Carolina federal court Friday. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:41:57 +0000 /competition/articles/2385545?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385545 Fresh off an Eighth Circuit decision that undercut a key rule limiting companies from controlling multiple broadcast stations in the same market, the FCC will vote this month on launching its required four-year review of media ownership rules. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:33:00 +0000 /competition/articles/2385530?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385530 Google has urged a Virginia federal judge not to impose the "severe, counterproductive, and unprecedented remedy" of breaking up its advertising placement technology business, and has pushed its own proposed fixes over those sought by the U.S. Department of Justice in the upcoming monopoly remedies trial. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:19:07 +0000 /competition/articles/2385202?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385202 World Aquatics will pay swimmers $4.6 million for missed events in a settlement ending their antitrust case accusing the sport's international governing body of organizing a group boycott against an upstart league, while the new league's case remains slated for a January trial. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:50:35 +0000 /competition/articles/2385140?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385140 A California federal judge ruled Friday that environmental groups can move forward with their public-nuisance claims accusing Exxon Mobil Corp. of knowingly fueling the state's plastic pollution crisis, rejecting the energy company's contention that the suit is merely a disguised product liability case. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:22:30 +0000 /competition/articles/2385200?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385200 The Federal Communications Commission plans to take a closer look at federal preemption of state and local rules that could impede the deployment of wireline telecom and broadband service. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:21:44 +0000 /competition/articles/2384896?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2384896 The controversial Justice Department settlement clearing Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks drew further pushback from Democratic senators and state attorneys general who respectively sought answers from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and told a California federal judge to reject the deal. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:21:17 +0000 /competition/articles/2385388?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385388 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, which has led two previous probes into misconduct by NBA franchises that pushed their owners to sell the teams, has been retained by the league to investigate reported circumvention of the salary cap for superstar Kawhi Leonard by the Los Angeles Clippers. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:58:11 +0000 /competition/articles/2384953?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2384953 A Ninth Circuit panel rejected a call to revisit the court's June decision reviving claims alleging that real estate information service CoStar monopolizes several commercial real estate listing markets through exclusive deals with brokers and technological barriers for competitors. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:46:23 +0000 /competition/articles/2382168?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2382168 Zillow's partnerships with Redfin and Realtor.com have recently triggered dual fronts of legal scrutiny — an antitrust inquiry from the Federal Trade Commission and a mass copyright infringement suit from CoStar — raising complex questions that reach beyond real estate, says Shubha Ghosh at Syracuse University College of Law. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:34:00 +0000 /competition/articles/2384969?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2384969 The Fifth Circuit has restored a $2.4 million jury award to a hair product company in its trademark infringement trial win over a rival, ruling a district court judge was wrong to throw out the verdict and the company had shown evidence the infringement hurt its business. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:31:09 +0000 /competition/articles/2385501?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385501 Last week at the Delaware Court of Chancery, a bankruptcy administrator for a generic drugmaker formerly known as Teligent was told he can proceed with duty of oversight claims against most former officers and directors of the company, who the administrator said was complicit in the company's collapse. In an opinion, the Court of Chancery cites its 1996 decision In re Caremark International Inc. Derivative Litigation, which refined director duties of care and oversight. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:16:11 +0000 /competition/articles/2385236?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385236 A wiring manufacturer demanding coverage from a Nationwide unit for nearly $32 million in outstanding defense costs over claims it violated federal bribery and accounting laws filed its claim for declaratory judgment too late, a Delaware federal court ruled, pointing to the state's three-year statute of limitations for contract-related actions. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:06:13 +0000 /competition/articles/2385155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385155 Telecommunications company EchoStar on Monday announced plans to sell some of its spectrum licenses to Elon Musk-owned SpaceX in a $17 billion cash-and-stock deal built by four firms, following its sale a few weeks ago of certain wireless spectrum licenses to AT&T in a $23 billion deal. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:36:37 +0000 /competition/articles/2385187?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385187 The Federal Communications Commission has set into motion its public interest review of the $34.5 billion deal to combine Charter Communications Inc. and Cox Communications into a powerhouse offering broadband, video and mobile services. Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:30:43 +0000 /competition/articles/2385086?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385086 The U.K. competition watchdog said Monday it has started a formal inquiry into the proposed acquisition of Norway-based wall panels maker Fibo Holding AS by branded bathroom products maker Norcros PLC for 618 million Norwegian kroner ($62 million). Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:30:26 +0000 /competition/articles/2385284?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2385284 Chief Justice John Roberts issued an order Monday temporarily staying the reinstatement of Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter while the Trump administration fights to bring a case challenging her removal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:05:17 +0000 /competition/articles/2384929?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2384929 Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday not to pause her reinstatement while the Trump administration challenges lower court decisions holding that her firing was illegal, saying those decisions were plainly correct and she's in no danger of sowing "chaos." Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:54:40 +0000 /competition/articles/2384820?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2384820 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Real Estate Authority — including what attorneys have been seeing when it comes to the power dynamic between fund managers and their investors. Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:06:21 +0000 /competition/articles/2384586?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /competition/articles/2384586 The Federal Trade Commission officially abandoned its appeal Friday in a case that set aside a Biden administration rule banning the use of most employee noncompete clauses, but the agency said it plans to bring enforcement actions on a case-by-case basis instead.