The European Union on Wednesday announced it’s fining Procter & Gamble $305.1 million on charges that the Cincinnati-based Fortune 500 company conspired to fix laundry detergent prices in eight countries.
Federal officials are reportedly looking at Blue Cross Blue Shield health care plan provisions in half a dozen states, with a focus on whether they stifle competition by preventing hospitals…
A federal judge in Manhattan has rejected a proposed $125 million class action settlement that would have allowed Google Inc. to avoid potential liability for creating a massive online digital…
The games move to the legal stage now that the National Football League has announced a lockout after labor negotiations failed to produce a new collective bargaining agreement.
A member of the Federal Trade Commission is raising concerns that the new health care law could reduce competition by allowing collaboration between hospitals and doctors.
Bratz doll maker MGA Entertainment has filed a new legal volley in the doll wars with a $3 billion antitrust lawsuit claiming Mattel, the Barbie doll company, engaged in anti-competitive…
After news earlier this week that two intellectual property partner groups had announced plans to exit Howrey during a single day, one including a rainmaker with a reputed $20 million…
Manufacturers that don’t allow their products to be sold at a discount won an antitrust suit in the U.S. Supreme Court more than three years ago, but they are facing…
Google Inc. has turned the tables on the feds, alleging that the U.S. Department of the Interior has illegally restricted competition among potential bidders for an e-mail contract by requiring…
An antitrust class action over the fees charged to law graduates to take the BAR/BRI test preparation course for their bar exams was settled for $49 million in 2007.
Apple, Google and four other technology companies have settled an antitrust probe into allegations that the companies agreed not to poach each other’s employees.
Lawyers had hoped the European Union’s top court would rethink its position on the attorney-client privilege in an antitrust case involving a Dutch chemical company.
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