https://1.next.westlaw.com Antitrust https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I992a2a315a9511f1a83fe84dcd0bf6af/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I992a2a315a9511f1a83fe84dcd0bf6af/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 CDT Update for May 2026 on new jurisdictions and amendments to the Practical Law Global Merger Control Quick Compare Chart. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I61a6d15243d211f1bf8d82e776af4c9e/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I61a6d15243d211f1bf8d82e776af4c9e/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 CDT Update for April 2026 on new jurisdictions and amendments to the Practical Law Global Merger Control Quick Compare Chart. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ic5a5d9e82c3e11f1a34ac71bb9879c27/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ic5a5d9e82c3e11f1a34ac71bb9879c27/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 CDT Update for March 2026 on new jurisdictions and amendments to the Practical Law Global Merger Control Quick Compare Chart. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I24f8278d132011f182b7cb1210d47fc6/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I24f8278d132011f182b7cb1210d47fc6/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 CST Update for February 2026 on new jurisdictions and amendments to the Practical Law Global Merger Control Quick Compare Chart. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I9805add4fd6811f08086beb24ce176bb/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I9805add4fd6811f08086beb24ce176bb/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 CST Update for December 2025 and January 2026 on new jurisdictions and amendments to the Practical Law Global Merger Control Quick Compare Chart. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I10e85233cb9511f0a5f6fa0d299e95bd/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I10e85233cb9511f0a5f6fa0d299e95bd/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 CST Update for November 2025 on new jurisdictions and amendments to the Practical Law Global Merger Control Quick Compare Chart. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ia6fa2bd0b95f11f0b5e1f6185fe336a9/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ia6fa2bd0b95f11f0b5e1f6185fe336a9/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 CST Update for October 2025 on new jurisdictions and amendments to the Practical Law Global Merger Control Quick Compare Chart. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Iec6ee56fa90011f0a6fc90e599a2d03e/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Iec6ee56fa90011f0a6fc90e599a2d03e/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 CDT A list of antitrust risk-shifting provisions summaries recently published by Practical Law What's Market. Practical Law What's Market provides a continuously updated database of antitrust risk-shifting provisions summaries that allows you to analyze and compare terms, including hell or high water, divestiture and litigation obligations, and reverse break-up fees across multiple agreements. All summaries contain links to the underlying public documents. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ib38638418c9411f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ib38638418c9411f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 CDT A list of federal merger enforcement action summaries recently published by Practical Law What's Market. Practical Law What's Market provides a continuously updated database of federal merger enforcement action summaries that allows you to analyze and compare key issues like market definitions, HHIs, theories of competitive harm, and remedies across multiple enforcement actions. The summaries contain links to the underlying public documents. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/If76648639f8b11f0a0f8b8c1f831a509/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/If76648639f8b11f0a0f8b8c1f831a509/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 CDT Update for September 2025 on new jurisdictions and amendments to the Practical Law Global Merger Control Quick Compare Chart. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I07938f718cb711f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I07938f718cb711f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 CDT A list of antitrust risk-shifting provisions summaries recently published by Practical Law What's Market. Practical Law What's Market provides a continuously updated database of antitrust risk-shifting provisions summaries that allows you to analyze and compare terms, including hell or high water, divestiture and litigation obligations, and reverse break-up fees across multiple agreements. All summaries contain links to the underlying public documents. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I3ef03b818cd111f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I3ef03b818cd111f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 CDT On September 5, 2025, the FTC filed to dismiss its appeals in Ryan, LLC v. FTC, No. 24-10951 (5th Cir.), and Properties of the Villages v. FTC, No. 24-13102 (11th Cir.), and to accede to the vacatur of the Non-Compete Clause Rule. Chairman Andrew Ferguson stated that the FTC will continue to use its traditional enforcement powers to address unlawful non-compete clauses in employment agreements. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ic9f21d5f899e11f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ic9f21d5f899e11f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 CDT The District Court for the District of Columbia, in United States v. Google LLC and State of Colorado et al. v. Google LLC, rejected structural breakups in the remedies phase of the Department of Justice's antitrust challenge to Google's search business. The court imposed anti-exclusivity contracting limits, data sharing, and search and search-ad syndication. The remedies aim to increase competition in the market for general search services and general search text advertising. The remedy includes a six-year term, with a technical committee to monitor enforcement. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I55c3b1b889cb11f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I55c3b1b889cb11f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 CDT On September 3, 2025, in Slaughter v. Trump, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the government's request for a stay pending the appeal of a lower court decision finding that Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was improperly fired based on Humphrey's Executor v. United States. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I767d692f83f211f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I767d692f83f211f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 CDT Update for August 2025 on new jurisdictions and amendments to the Practical Law Global Merger Control Quick Compare Chart. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I5ad86fc3843211f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I5ad86fc3843211f08d94a97a2fd4b363/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 CDT The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held in Sullivan v. UBS AG that the district court improperly dismissed plaintiffs' claims under Section 1 of the Sherman Act against UBS and RBS. The Second Circuit held that plaintiffs had adequately pleaded a conspiracy to fix Euribor, had suffered an antitrust injury, and were an efficient enforcer of the Sherman Act. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/If20125c27d0e11f09e79d3396e9acd90/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/If20125c27d0e11f09e79d3396e9acd90/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 CDT In Gibson v. Cendyn Group, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action challenging the common use of price recommendation software among hotels on the Las Vegas Strip (2025 WL 2371948 (9th Cir. Aug. 15, 2025)). https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I823448787c8a11f0a273f7b3de17c00e/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I823448787c8a11f0a273f7b3de17c00e/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 CDT On August 18, 2025, the FTC filed a lawsuit against a ticket resale operation, alleging that a ticket reseller and its affiliates unlawfully purchased hundreds of thousands of tickets from Ticketmaster in circumvention of Ticketmaster's ticket purchase limits and then resold the tickets to consumers at a significant markup. The FTC's lawsuit requests that the court award civil penalties and enter an injunction permanently barring the reseller from making unlawful purchases and resales. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I15df2177785211f09e79d3396e9acd90/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I15df2177785211f09e79d3396e9acd90/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 CDT On August 12, 2025, the FTC closed its antitrust investigation relating to the Clean Truck Partnership, an agreement between truck and engine manufacturers, their trade association, and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) relating to emissions standards. The FTC obtained commitments from the manufacturers and the trade association not to enforce the agreement or to enter into similar agreements in the future. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ie509a898778b11f09e79d3396e9acd90/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ie509a898778b11f09e79d3396e9acd90/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 CDT A list of antitrust risk-shifting provisions summaries recently published by Practical Law What's Market. Practical Law What's Market provides a continuously updated database of antitrust risk-shifting provisions summaries that allows you to analyze and compare terms, including hell or high water, divestiture and litigation obligations, and reverse break-up fees across multiple agreements. All summaries contain links to the underlying public documents. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I52adbb94778811f09e79d3396e9acd90/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I52adbb94778811f09e79d3396e9acd90/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 CDT A list of federal merger enforcement action summaries recently published by Practical Law What's Market. Practical Law What's Market provides a continuously updated database of federal merger enforcement action summaries that allows you to analyze and compare key issues like market definitions, HHIs, theories of competitive harm, and remedies across multiple enforcement actions. The summaries contain links to the underlying public documents. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ib3c0e50d76c611f09e79d3396e9acd90/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ib3c0e50d76c611f09e79d3396e9acd90/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 CDT https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I5cc051e5713f11f0a273f7b3de17c00e/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I5cc051e5713f11f0a273f7b3de17c00e/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 CDT The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a jury verdict finding that Google's Play Store violated federal and state antitrust laws (In re Google Play Store Antitrust Litig., 2025 WL 2167402 (9th Cir. July 31, 2025)). The decision upholds a finding of liability against Google for monopolizing the markets for Android app distribution and in-app billing services. The Ninth Circuit rejected Google's arguments regarding issue preclusion stemming from the earlier Epic v. Apple litigation and challenges to specific jury instructions concerning market definition and the Rule of Reason. The court also upheld the district court's nationwide injunction. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I359775d86c7b11f0a273f7b3de17c00e/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I359775d86c7b11f0a273f7b3de17c00e/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 CDT Update for July 2025 on new jurisdictions and amendments to the Practical Law Global Merger Control Quick Compare Chart. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I200b1534689411f0a273f7b3de17c00e/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I200b1534689411f0a273f7b3de17c00e/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 CDT The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed the dismissal of federal antitrust claims against a Puerto Rican baseball league in Congrejeros de Santurce Baseball Club, LLC v. Liga de Béisbol Pro. Baseball Clubs (2025 WL 2027882). The court clarified that baseball's long-standing antitrust exemption is not limited to Major League Baseball but extends to the "business of baseball" as an activity. The court, however, vacated the district court's dismissal of Puerto Rico state antitrust and fair competition claims, remanding for consideration of whether the Supremacy Clause prevents the application of local laws to the defendants' conduct. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I6499a044671c11f09e79d3396e9acd90/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I6499a044671c11f09e79d3396e9acd90/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 CDT In Slaughter v. Trump, 2025 WL 1984396 (D.D.C. July 17, 2025), the US District Court for the District of Columbia held that President Trump’s removal of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause violated the FTC Act’s for-cause removal protections and was thus unlawful and without legal effect. The court reasoned that the Supreme Court’s decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States remains binding precedent, preventing the President from removing FTC Commissioners except for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I35d6239263fc11f0ae8fc362ad603490/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I35d6239263fc11f0ae8fc362ad603490/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 CDT The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in a 2-1 decision reversed a district court's issuance of a preliminary injunction preventing the NCAA from enforcing its Five-Year Rule against a college athlete seeking to play a fifth season of college football in Fourqurean v. Nat'l Coll. Athletic Ass'n, 2025 WL 1944005 (7th Cir. July 16, 2025). The Seventh Circuit concluded that a preliminary injunction was not warranted because the athlete failed to establish that he was likely to succeed on his claim that the Five-Year Rule constituted an unreasonable restraint of trade in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I12d70373625011f0ae8fc362ad603490/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I12d70373625011f0ae8fc362ad603490/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 CDT The US District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the NFL's motion to dismiss in Casey's Distributing, Inc. v. National Football League, 2025 WL 1928544 (S.D.N.Y. July 14, 2025). The court found that the plaintiffs had failed to plausibly allege antitrust injury because the alleged conduct did not harm competition and instead only affected the plaintiffs as competitors. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ic306d5de619511f0ae8fc362ad603490/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ic306d5de619511f0ae8fc362ad603490/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 CDT The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest in Child.’s Health Def. v. WP Co., LLC, addressing the application of federal antitrust laws to alleged collusion among major news organizations and digital platforms (2023 WL 6118520). The plaintiffs, online news publishers, alleged that the defendants, made up of various news organizations, conspired with each other to exclude rival viewpoints from social media platforms. The DOJ wrote to address application of the Sherman Act to claims involving the marketplace of ideas and to urge the court to reject a rule that would exempt viewpoint collusion from antitrust scrutiny. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I9fa10d1e5b4011f0b8799e77dac0405c/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Document/I9fa10d1e5b4011f0b8799e77dac0405c/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 CDT A list of antitrust risk-shifting provisions summaries recently published by Practical Law What's Market. Practical Law What's Market provides a continuously updated database of antitrust risk-shifting provisions summaries that allows you to analyze and compare terms, including hell or high water, divestiture and litigation obligations, and reverse break-up fees across multiple agreements. All summaries contain links to the underlying public documents.