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Legal Update: Federal Court Enjoins NCAA’s “Five-Year Rule” for JUCO Athletes

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On September 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada issued a significant order in Martinson v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, granting a preliminary injunction against the NCAA’s enforcement...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Maximizing Revenue: The Future of College Sports Media Rights in a Post-House World — Highway to NIL Podcast

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In this episode of Highway to NIL, Troutman Pepper Locke attorneys Cal Stein, Chris Brolley, and George Pla look at the post-House settlement landscape, including the revenue-sharing pool that allows schools to pay athletes...more

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Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law: Recent Developments - November 2025

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The European Union (‘EU’) is witnessing a marked rise in private enforcement of competition law. Cartel damages actions in the EU have seen an eightfold cumulative growth over the past decade. Directive 2014/104 (‘Damages...more

A&O Shearman

Minnesota Court Grants in Part and Denies in Part Motion to Dismiss Granulated Sugar Antitrust MDL

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On October 15, 2025, Judge Jerry W. Blackwell of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota granted in part and denied in part defendants’ motions to dismiss a multidistrict litigation alleging a...more

McCarter & English, LLP

AI Pricing Tools in Senior Care: The Antitrust Risks You Need to Manage Now

Senior living and nursing home operators increasingly lean on third-party “revenue management” software to set rates, discounts, and concessions. Recent cases and enforcement actions show that this can create antitrust...more

Jenner & Block

FTC Changes Strategy on Noncompete Enforcement

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The Trump administration's FTC has abandoned the rule banning noncompete agreements nationwide, but is encouraging antitrust enforcers to bring challenges in court. Whereas Biden-era officials had concluded that only broad...more

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Recent Rulings Highlight Risk to Japanese Drugmakers in Settling Pharmaceutical Litigations

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In FTC v. Actavis, Inc., 570 U.S. 136 (2013), the US Supreme Court addressed the legality of “reverse payment” settlements in pharmaceutical patent litigation. A reverse payment occurs when a brand-name drug manufacturer pays...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes : mise à jour d’octobre 2025

Bienvenue à l’édition d’octobre de l’infolettre Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes, une publication mensuelle des groupes Concurrence et antitrust et Investissement étranger de Blakes. Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes...more

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Jenner & Blockニュースレター

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本号では、複数の実務分野にわたる重要な法的進展を取り上げています。はじめに、連邦最高裁判 所によるFuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization訴訟について検討しています。この判決は、米国 憲法修正第5条に基づく外国被告に対する個人管轄権の枠組みをより柔軟にするものです。また、 日本の製薬企業に影響を及ぼす重要な動向として、リバース・ペイメントの和解訴訟を取り上げて います。...more

Mogin Law LLP

SCOTUS Turns Away Zillow Antitrust Case and Questions About Platform Power

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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review Real Estate Exchange Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc. and National Association of Realtors, leaving intact a Ninth Circuit decision that dismissed claims of anticompetitive conduct in...more

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D.C. District Judge Narrows Case Between E-Commerce Giants, Temu and Shein

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In December 2023, Temu (operated by Whaleco Inc.), a general e-commerce platform specializing in drop-shipping resale goods sold at deep discounts, filed suit against Shein, a similarly structured fast-fashion clothing...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

From Holdout to Headline: Ohio’s Step into the High School NIL Era

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The movement to allow student-athletes to profit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL) continues to sweep across the nation, reshaping amateur athletics from coast to coast. What began as a collegiate phenomenon has...more

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PMFNs & Competition

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Most Favored Nation (MFN) clauses are contractual provisions that were historically invoked between countries in treaties and trade agreements, promising, for example, that any lowering of tariffs on any trading partner would...more

A&O Shearman

Southern District of Indiana Grants Motion to Dismiss Sherman Act Claims in Pet-Retail Antitrust Case

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On October 7, 2025, Judge James Patrick Hanlon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana granted in part and denied in part a brand name manufacturer of topical flea-and-tick products’ (the...more

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California Clarifies Antitrust Pleading Standard, Creates Uncertainty on ‘Coercive’ Uses of Algorithmic Software

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California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law AB 325, which amends California’s state antitrust law, the Cartwright Act. Effective January 1, 2026, the amendments create a new basis for liability for parties that...more

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Democratic AGs Seek to Intervene in DOJ’s Review of $14B HPE/Juniper Deal

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Thirteen Democratic AGs, led by Colorado AG Phil Weiser, have moved to intervene in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California’s review of an antitrust settlement concerning the $14 billion merger between...more

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Tunney Act Tussle: State AGs launch challenge to DOJ merger settlement

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On October 14, 2025, Attorneys General for twelve states and the District of Columbia (together, the States) filed a Motion to Intervene in the California District Court proceeding involving the merger settlement between the...more

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Economic Lessons from the Novant Health-CHS Drama

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The abandoned transaction between Novant Health (Novant) and Community Hospital System (CHS) for two North Carolina (NC) hospitals received substantial attention from the media, lawyers, and economists. Even though an initial...more

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Higher Ed Sector Must Adapt as Antitrust Scrutiny Intensifies

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From financial aid to athlete compensation and early decision, colleges and universities are increasingly facing antitrust litigation under the Sherman Antitrust Act. The legal landscape is shifting fast, and institutions...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Poultry Processing Information Exchange Settlement Sheds Light on Agency Enforcement Views

On October 10, 2025, a settlement was filed in an information sharing case that highlights the antitrust risks of exchanging information with competitors and sheds light on the relatively aggressive view of such risks by the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

California Establishes New Criminal and Civil Liability Targeting Shared Pricing Algorithms and “Coercion”

AB 325 adds two new provisions to the Cartwright Act, with one provision barring the use or distribution of a common pricing algorithm as part of a contract, combination or conspiracy restraining trade, and adding a...more

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Antitrust & Competition Technology Update Q2 2025

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The second quarter of 2025 was marked by major transactions, high-stakes litigation, and shifting regulatory frameworks. In the United States, deals such as Salesforce/Informatica and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)/Juniper...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Algorithmic Accountability: Navigating California’s New Antitrust Frontier

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California’s expansion of its antitrust law — targeting algorithmic pricing and lowering the bar for litigation — signals a major shift in how companies must approach algorithmic pricing tools and compliance. ...more

Mogin Law LLP

States Picking Up Antitrust Slack, Claiming DOJ’s Attention is Elsewhere

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State attorneys general are stepping up antitrust enforcement, challenging more mergers and acquisitions as they perceive the federal government, particularly the Department of Justice under the Trump administration, to be...more

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Dentists Denied Class Certification in Delta Dental Antitrust Lawsuit

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On September 22, 2025, United States District Judge Elaine E. Bucklo of the Northern District of Illinois denied class certification to a putative class of approximately 240,000 dentists that alleged Delta Dental, a...more

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