Having missed a divestment deadline to finalize its merger with the oil company Baker Hughes, General Electric must now open up its checkbook, federal antitrust regulators said Tuesday.
Read moreAmerican Express must head to the Supreme Court, the justices said Monday, to defend its policy of banning merchants from asking consumers to use lower-fee cards.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday banned Valero from attempting to buy two Bay Area oil terminals for the next 10 years, three months after California sued to block the oil giant’s acquisition of an East Bay pipeline hub.
Read moreSigning off on CenturyLink’s $34 billion takeover of Level 3 Communications, the Justice Department told a federal judge that the telecommunications giants will heed antitrust concerns by giving up some of the assets.
Read moreAntitrust regulators asked a federal judge to sign off on the $130 billion merger of two of the world’s largest chemical companies, Dow Chemical and DuPont, certifying their compliance with measures that will ensure competition.
Read moreA Norwegian shipping company agreed to pay $21 million in criminal fines after admitting to a role in an international conspiracy to fix prices, rig bids and allocate customers.
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Major food suppliers and grocers were handed a victory in their antitrust case against the top three packaged tuna companies in the nation this week, as a federal court judge refused to dismiss the case.
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The $4.3 billion merger of the only two American companies that make fuel-filtration systems for aircraft drew a federal antitrust action Tuesday from regulators.
Read moreThe European Commission on Wednesday slapped Swedish truck manufacturer Scania with a whopping $1.03 billion fine for its role in a price-fixing cartel that spanned 14 years.
Read moreA federal judge threw out sweeping conspiracy claims brought by a bar-exam preparation company against the industry juggernaut Barbri as well as 10 leading law schools.
Read moreFlexing the antitrust muscles recently enacted for a class of medications called biologics, Pfizer accuses Johnson & Johnson in a federal complaint of stifling competition against its brand-name arthritis treatment.
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The leading soccer organization in the United States has attempted to stifle competition from budding leagues looking to offer minor league soccer, according to a federal lawsuit.
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Valero has dropped its bid to acquire a San Francisco Bay Area oil terminal after the California attorney general sued the gas giant in federal court for antitrust.
Read moreIn a win for two railroad giants accused of collusion by billionaire William Koch’s coal company, a federal judge ordered Koch to produce records, rejecting the argument that doing so would be costly and irrelevant.
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A federal judge dealt Qualcomm a major blow Friday by denying its request to block Apple from filing lawsuits internationally while the two tech giants battle stateside over cellphone chipset technology.
Read moreA reversal Wednesday from Europe’s highest court upended a $1.2 billion fine against Intel for cornering the market on a certain central processing unit.
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Valero may buy a Bay Area oil terminal despite the state’s claims that it will stifle competition and raise gas prices — but it must abide by certain conditions, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreReviving what it billed as a union “turf war,” the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday that the New England Regional Council of Carpenters is not immune from antitrust claims.
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The Third Circuit breathed new life Monday into antitrust lawsuits against four pharmaceuticals giants concerning the delayed entry to the market of generic versions of Lipitor and Effexor XR.
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