Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook were asked by members of the U.S. House of Representatives Friday to fork over documents that could aid the politicians in their investigation of Big Tech’s market dominance.
Read moreTuna giant Starkist must pay a $100 million criminal fine for conspiring to fix packaged seafood prices, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, despite arguments it could bankrupt the company or cause its employees to lose jobs.
Read moreRelevent Sports sued the U.S. Soccer Federation in a federal antitrust complaint, claiming it conspired with the sport’s international governing body, FIFA, to boycott professional soccer clubs that have not been sanctioned by the federation.
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Attorneys general from 48 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico announced Monday their plans to investigate Google’s business practices and its dominance in the telecommunications and search engine industries.
Read moreThe fight between California and the Trump administration over carbon emissions and fuel economy standards took another twist Friday, with the U.S. Department of Justice launching an antitrust probe into a deal struck by the Golden State and four automakers to boost fuel efficiency.
Read moreA group of eight states and the District of Columbia are launching an antitrust probe of Facebook, New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed Friday.
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The Seventh Circuit on Thursday partially revived a small brewer’s antitrust claims against Anheuser-Busch and Molson Coors, accusing the beer giants of making secret deals with Canadian authorities to monopolize the Ontario market.
Read moreA federal judge denied large banks’ request to dismiss the GSE Bonds antitrust class action alleging the banks conspired to fix secondary market prices of bonds issued by government-sponsored entities.
Read moreA federal judge in Washington approved a settlement Wednesday that will allow CVS and Aetna to go forward with a $69 billion merger.
Read morePerdue, Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride and 15 other poultry-processing giants were hit with federal class action accusing the companies of conspiring to suppress wages.
Read moreThe Second Circuit affirmed dismissal of Prime International Trading et al.’s antitrust claim that BP et al. fixed oil prices.
Read moreA federal antitrust complaint claims Bausch Health Cos., Salix Pharmaceuticals, et al. increased prices for the diabetes prescription drug Glumetza by up to 50 times the fair market price: as high as $3,000 for a month’s supply.
Read moreGoing over the head of a federal judge, the Ninth Circuit on Friday granted Qualcomm a partial stay from carrying out the requirements of an antitrust judgment won by the Federal Trade Commission until an appeal is decided.
Read moreA federal judge denied pharmaceutical companies’ request to dismiss a multidistrict antitrust complaint accusing them of conspiring to fix prices of generic drugs.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed without prejudice NSS Labs’ claim that Symantec conspired to suppress competition in the testing of cybersecurity products by adopting a standard to which NSS Labs refused to adhere.
Read moreA federal judge gave his preliminary OK to a settlement in which four Japanese companies will pay indirect purchasers of capacitators $31 million to resolve price-fixing claims.
Read morePork purchasers did not sufficiently plead their conspiracy claims against some of the nation’s leading pork producers, a federal court in Minnesota ruled. The plaintiffs claimed producers engaged in a conspiracy to control the price of pork by decreasing the total production of the animal products.
Read moreThe insurer Humana claims in a federal antitrust complaint that Mallinckrodt raised the price of the anti-inflammatory prescription drug Acthar from $40 a vial to more than $39,000 — “one of the most outrageous price-gouging schemes in the history of American medicine.”
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