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Antitrust
February 27, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Trade
February 27, 2025 | Roffie Kurniawan
Asia
Trade
February 26, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust View More
February 27, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Tyson, Cargill, Butterball, and other turkey suppliers will likely face two separate trials over price-fixing allegations, with the first trial slated for Fall 2026, an Illinois federal judge said today.
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Broad River Electric Cooperative filed an amended US antitrust complaint against the Gaffney Board of Public Works, accusing it of exploiting a government-conferred monopoly to keep out competiti... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Apple has failed to show that its proposed intervention in the US Department of Justice’s monopolization case against Google Search would have any purpose or meaningful limitation, the DOJ told a US appeals court.
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 27, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The intellectual property case pitting Getty Images against Stability AI could be significant enough to prompt legislation, the barrister for the image generator said at a case management hearing in London tod... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Claude Marx
North America
The US Senate Judiciary Committee today overwhelmingly approved the nomination of Gail Slater to be the Department of Justice’s top antitrust enforcer.
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government shouldn't continue with its preferred option for tackling AI and copyright, which introduces a copyright exception for text and data mining, as long as it lacks an accessible te... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 27, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
US Anesthesia Partners has asked a federal court in Houston to force one of its competitors to show its contracts with medical facilities and insurance companies, in the hope it will prove US Anesthesia Partne... (more story)
February 27, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: IBM announced it has closed its $6.4 billion acquisition of US cloud software maker HashiCorp.
February 27, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company must feel its path to EU foreign-subsidy approval for its 14.7 billion-euro takeover of Germany's Covestro has been smoothed by the European Commission’s clearance of another lar... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan sent subpoenas to Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Rumble, TikTok, and X Corp. seeking each company's communications with foreign governm... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Judge Jon Bates is allowing limited discovery in the privacy lawsuit brought by federal workers unions and nonprofits against the US Department of Labor, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Apple believes age checks aren’t needed for most apps, so its App Store should not conduct blanket age verification, the company said in a white paper today. As age assurance and minor safety become an increas... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 27, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
A Utah federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss Erica Fresh, sole operator of supplement company Shopping EZ, from a trademark infringement suit against the company, finding she may be held individually li... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Erica Fresh, sole operator of supplement company Shopping EZ, can be held individually liable for trademark infringement, a Utah federal judge said in denying Fresh's motion to dismiss. Axcess Gl... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: An Avago patent directed to eliminating latency during streaming was correctly canceled by the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the US Court of Appeals for the Fede... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 27, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A US judge today denied a motion to dismiss the government’s effort to seize a luxury condominium in a Trump Organization building in Manhattan allegedly purchased with stolen Congolese state assets. The compl... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In its annual earnings report, TD Bank provided an update about the improvements in its anti-money laundering compliance program since an October 2024 settlement with US authorities. The bank exp... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Former Worthington Group Chief Executive Douglas Ware knew that a top manager working with him repeatedly breached the watchdog's ban against him to act as company director, the Financial Conduct Authority's p... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has dismissed the ongoing civil enforcement action against Coinbase and Coinbase Global.
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex summary: Jonathan McKernan, the nominee for director of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told the Senate Banking Committee at his confirmation hearing that the agency "suffers from a crisis of... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, said during a confirmation hearing for Jonathan McKernan, the nominee for US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau d... (more story)
Trade View More
February 27, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Europe
President Donald Trump said today he may reach a trade agreement with London to avoid putting tariffs on the UK. Trump said at a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that the two leaders d... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission released a report calculating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensities of US steel and aluminum industries. The report was requested by the US Trade Re... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today affirmed a Court of International Trade ruling upholding a Customs and Border Protection determination that several importers of xanthan gum evaded an anti... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Austria should win its legal challenge to Hungary's investment aid for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at the Paks II nuclear power station, suggests an EU court opinion that was rel... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Government support to EU companies for green technologies will have an easier ride under a new plan today aimed at boosting domestic industries. EU commissioner Teresa Ribera signaled that markets were changin... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Clean Industrial Deal — the EU's new strategy to decarbonize industry while boosting its competitiveness — was published today by the European Commission. "We know that too many obstacles sti... (more story)
Energy View More
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Further action is needed to reduce methane emissions in Europe and globally, the European Environment Agency report says. Despite its decrease, methane emissions still account for 12 percent of a... (more story)
February 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson directed the agency to form a Joint Labor Task Force that will work to prioritize rooting out and prosecuting deceptive, unfair, and anticompetit... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Jean Comte
Europe
The European Commission unveiled today its first “omnibus” legislative text aimed at cutting administrative costs for companies. But the proposal might face difficulties during the scrutiny process as member s... (more story)
Technology View More
February 27, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK’s data protection regulator and the online safety watchdog want to develop joint strategies to ensure women’s privacy is protected without undermining compliance with online safety rules, representative... (more story)
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK telecom regulator Ofcom is consulting on changes to the annual fees that mobile operators pay to use certain spectrum bands. The watchdog is proposing to reduce annual fees by 21 percent for t... (more story)
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK data privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office, issued reprimands today to the city councils of Edinburgh and Glasgow for failing to respond to requests for personal informa... (more story)