Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge threw out a range of price-fixing claims against hard disk parts manufacturers Wednesday, but kept part of the litigation afloat and gave two groups of plaintiffs a month to rework the jettisoned claims.

The U.S. Department of Justice pushed back against accusations from an indicted former health care staffing company manager that enforcers mishandled his interview during the criminal investigation of an alleged agreement to suppress wages for Las Vegas school nurses.

A bipartisan group of state-level attorneys general sent a letter to both chambers of Congress on Monday calling on lawmakers to pass a spate of proposed legislation aimed at reining in Big Tech companies and updating antitrust law.

Two Vitamin C importers asked the Second Circuit to consider restoring price-fixing claims against a pair of Chinese exporters after a split panel of the court tossed them a second time.

A Colorado federal judge has ruled that a plea agreement Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. reached with the U.S. Justice Department earlier this year is neither preventing broiler chicken executives facing criminal charges for price-fixing from accessing company witnesses nor undermining their constitutional ri…

Ohio is fighting to keep alive its battle to have Google declared a common carrier and its search engine a public utility, telling a state judge that the tech behemoth’s argument to get the case tossed “reads like search results compiled by Ask Jeeves.”

Zydus Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. have told the Third Circuit that Zydus’ bid to revive antitrust counterclaims should not be moved to the Federal Circuit because patent infringement allegations were dropped from the litigation in 2018.

President Joe Biden tapped privacy expert and Georgetown Law scholar Alvaro Bedoya on Monday to replace one of the current Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission, the White House said.

Apple won on all but one key claim in Epic Games’ antitrust action against it, although the tech giant may have to give up some fat commissions on app sales, and Wells Fargo was penalized $250 million over the bank’s home loan program miscues.

Realty groups including The National Association of Realtors were hit with a suit by a real estate broker and investor claiming their practices limit transactions to brokers who are on affiliated multiple listing services instead of all licensed brokers in Arizona.

Democratic U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal urged the U.S. Department of Justice to open its own investigation into ‘Jedi Blue,’ a 2018 agreement between Google and Facebook that allegedly sought to kill competitive bidding for advertising space.

Federal prosecutors are fighting to preserve criminal charges accusing poultry executives of price-fixing in the broiler chicken industry, telling a Colorado federal judge that the indictment has all the specific and timely allegations necessary under federal antitrust law.

The Second Circuit has refused to rethink its decision to let 1-800 Contacts escape allegations from the Federal Trade Commission that it violated antitrust law by aggressively enforcing its trademarks against online competitors.

A former top-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division is returning to private practice as a partner in Paul Hastings LLP’s Washington, D.C., office, the firm said Monday.

Attorneys pursuing consolidated antitrust proposed class actions against e-cigarette maker Juul and former rival Altria will have to find new direct purchasers after the consumers who bought from the companies directly were forced into arbitration in a California federal court ruling Thursday that o…

A D.C. federal judge tried Thursday to resolve a discovery dispute between the U.S. Department of Justice and Apple, one of the most crucial third parties to the government’s antitrust case against Google, and apparently a major thorn in the DOJ’s side as discovery proceeds.

The U.S. Department of Justice told a Colorado federal judge Monday that indicted poultry executives accused of price-fixing face few surprises at trial and thus have no need for a sneak peek at the evidence the DOJ plans to use weeks ahead of schedule.

The U.S. Department of Justice has assailed assertions by Teva and Glenmark that it inappropriately used its Israeli and Indian sister agencies to force foreign executives to sit for interviews without going through counsel, arguing that the interview requests are legal and it didn’t know executives…

A California federal judge has largely refused to dismiss antitrust multidistrict litigation accusing Jazz Pharmaceuticals of staving off generic competition to its blockbuster narcolepsy drug Xyrem through a web of anticompetitive conduct and deals with other drug makers.

McDonald’s Corp. filed suit against poultry producers Monday, telling an Illinois federal court that it intends to join sprawling multidistrict litigation over an allegedly multipronged, years-long scheme to fix chicken prices.