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On February 12, 2026, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) 2024 rule (the “Final Rule”), amending the Premerger Notification Rules that implement the...more
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A federal district court judge in Texas has invalidated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) revised premerger notification requirements under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR), representing a potentially significant shift in...more
On February 12, 2026, Judge Jeremy Kernodle of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s expanded Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act filing requirements that went...more
On January 29, 2026, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division announced a $1 million payment to a whistleblower for a bid-rigging conspiracy, marking the DOJ’s first payment under the new Whistleblower Rewards Program....more
A federal court in Texas has invalidated the 2024 FTC final rule that created the New HSR Forms. In October 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) promulgated a final rule that created the New HSR Forms and materially...more
The future of the 2024 amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) premerger notification requirements (the “Final Rule”) is now in flux, following yesterday’s decision from the Eastern District of Texas that vacated the...more
On February 12, 2026, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule promulgating a new Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act premerger notification form (Final Rule). The FTC...more
On February 12, the FTC issued a final rule in the Federal Register to conform three of its recent rules to federal court decisions, revising the Negative Option Rule and withdrawing both the Combating Auto Retail Scams Trade...more
President Trump signed an Executive Order on February 6, 2026, authorizing an additional ad valorem tariff on goods imported into the United States that are products of any country that has been found to be directly or...more
On February 12, 2026, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas set aside and vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new premerger notification form and instructions....more
A federal judge in Texas has vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s adoption of a sweeping overhaul of the federal pre-merger notification regime that became effective in February 2025. ...more
California has become the latest State to adopt a “mini HSR Act”, continuing a trend of increased State-level antitrust scrutiny of mergers and acquisitions activity....more
On September 17, 2025, Northern District of California Judge James Donato granted Hermes International and Hermes of Paris’s motion to dismiss the second amended complaint by a putative class on behalf of national and...more
On February 12, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the FTC’s 2024 HSR Final Rule (titled “Premerger Notification; Reporting and Waiting Period Requirements”), which went into effect on...more
On February 9, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina granted in part and denied in part a title insurer’s motion to dismiss in a real estate fraud case, where a mortgage lender alleged it suffered...more
Overview: A BIS investigation is one of the most serious enforcement risks in international trade. The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, enforces the Export Administration...more
On February 10, DOJ announced a settlement agreement, pending approval in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, resolving claims brought by DOJ, the CFPB, and the state of Texas against a land developer...more
On February 12, 2026, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated a rule promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in 2024 that revised and expanded the information required of merging...more
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an order on February 12, 2026 vacating the “new” HSR premerger reporting rules, which went into effect last February, as arbitrary, capricious, and in excess of...more
On February 12, 2026, the Eastern District of Texas vacated the US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new rules that produced the burdensome, significantly expanded Hart‑Scott-Rodino (HSR) notification form (Form) that has been...more
Strike-through pricing is a popular marketing technique where a higher “regular” price is listed on marketing materials and crossed out immediately adjacent to a lower, “discounted” sale price. The practice is policed when...more
On February 12, 2026, Judge Kernodle of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Rule that, in the Court’s words, “significantly expands the amount of...more
The FTC has announced that it has submitted an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) regarding negative option plans to the OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) for review — an indication that the...more