The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit to undo a multi-billion dollar investment made by tobacco and giant Altria Group and e-cigarette company JUUL Labs, citing a violation of federal antitrust laws.
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday entered final judgment in a case over the $26.5 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, finalizing a settlement agreement with the federal government that requires the companies to sell off some of Sprint’s assets to Dish Network.
Read moreIn a federal antitrust complaint, El Pollo Loco accuses Tyson Foods, Koch Meat Co., Sanderson Farms, Perdue Foods, et al. of conspiring to fix the price of chicken.
Read moreA federal antitrust complaint claims Amazon.com’s pricing policy for third-party sellers is anticompetitive in that it prevents sellers from reducing their prices on other websites.
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France’s competition authority slapped a record $1.2 billion fine on U.S. tech giant Apple on Monday for anticompetitive behavior toward its independent retail distributors.
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The Supreme Court allowed discovery to go forward Friday in sweeping antitrust litigation that accuses pharmaceutical companies of fixing generic drug prices.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday dismissed for the third and final time antitrust claims brought by California wildfire victims who accused State Farm of using software to undervalue their homes, resulting in unexpected rebuilding costs.
Read moreHarris County, Texas sued Teva Pharmaceuticals and 41 other drug companies in a federal antitrust complaint, accusing them of fixing prices for generic drugs in the county’s health insurance plans for 38,000 employees and their families; the lawsuit is 374 pages long.
Read moreThe FTC and Pennsylvania sued Thomas Jefferson University and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in federal court to stop their “anticompetitive merger.”
Read moreThe FTC sued Peabody Energy Corp. and Arch Coal in federal court to prevent the two largest coal-mining companies in the United States from forming a joint partnership, in violation of antitrust law.
Read moreLaurelwood Cleaners claims that American Express’s forcing merchants to accept its card for free is a vertical price restraint that’s illegal under California antitrust law, in L.A. Superior Court.
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Touting the prowess that made her a star saleswoman at Saks, Ying-Liang Wang says she was the perfect fit to jump ship to a more lucrative career at Gucci and Prada.
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No love for Google from the EU’s second-highest court on Valentine’s Day, as one judge said a $2.6 billion antitrust fine was “a small amount of cash” for the search engine juggernaut.
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Attorneys for State Farm customers whose homes were wiped out by the Northern California wildfires fought in federal court Thursday to keep alive a class action claiming State Farm issued insurance policies that intentionally undervalued their houses, and then lowballed the cost to rebuild.
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After a long, intense and spirited hearing in the Ninth Circuit on Thursday, a three-judge panel will decide whether the world’s leading chip manufacturer is illegally distorting the market or simply outfoxing the competition.
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It was a challenging day for Google as a judge on the EU’s second-highest court had terse words for the Silicon Valley giant about its anticompetitive behavior.
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Search engine juggernaut Google faced off against the European Union on Wednesday over a $2.6 billion fine for squashing its shopping services competition.
Read moreT-Mobile’s $26.5 billion takeover of Sprint could mean higher or lower phone bills, depending on whom you ask.
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