MLex Summary: Nine of the UK's biggest housebuilders face a £4.5 billion collective legal claim over allegations that they shared commercially sensitive information that inflated new-build home prices for more... (more story)

A Chinese provincial antitrust regulator is investigating alleged horizontal monopoly conduct in the country's logistics sector, MLex has learned. The logistics sector has recently received renewed policy atte... (more story)

Japanese supermarket chain Feel settled an antitrust probe on Tuesday after Japan's antitrust agency approved its commitment plan, including refunds totaling 112 million yen ($690,000) to about 350 suppliers. ... (more story)

Starting in July, social media users, website operators and social network providers in Vietnam will face fines for unauthorized reposting, sharing or storage of copyrighted works under Decree 174. The new rul... (more story)

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in an appeal by Finesse Wireless of a US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision which overturned a $166.3 million patent infringement verdict against Nokia and AT&T. 

Although Solicitor General D. John Sauer in May urged the US Supreme Court to deny certiorari, his views arguably gave petitioner Rise Brewing the ammunition it needed by agreeing that a US appeals court was w... (more story)

MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Protection officially launched the second phase of refunds for importers who paid now-illegal tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The Consoli... (more story)

A US Supreme Court decision Monday allowing the president to fire members of the Federal Trade Commission for any reason could hurt Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter’s legal arguments to keep her own job... (more story)

MLex Summary: A coalition of US importers filed a lawsuit at the Court of International Trade to contest the Commerce Department's June determination not to initiate a changed circumstance review to examine wh... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Supreme Court has ruled 6-3, in a case involving former US Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, that provisions of the FTC Act stating that members can only removed for... (more story)

Australia’s draft children’s privacy code has drawn broad support from digital and rights advocates, who have called for targeted refinements to strengthen certain provisions before the rules are finalized in ... (more story)

Australia has introduced legislation to strengthen enforcement of its world-first under-16 social media ban by doubling maximum fines to A$99 million ($68 million) and granting new powers to the online-safety ... (more story)