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November 10, 2026
Nov. 17 — GCR: Live’s Women in Antitrust Conference will feature an all-women steering committee and examine major developments shaping competition law at the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC. For more details, go to: https://events.globalcompetitionreview.com.
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November 10, 2026
In the 1990s, Ashley Taylor worked on a tobacco settlement for the Virginia attorney general’s office. It was an eye-opening introduction to litigating cases brought by state enforcers.
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November 10, 2026
When people think about show business, they focus on the performers, writers and the glamorous aspects of the field.
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November 10, 2026
The federal litigation and settlement with RealPage last year addressed the core concerns about algorithmic price-fixing in apartment rentals. Now a Sept. 30 court decision gives the nine nonsettling states an opportunity to go in a new direction and make it harder for RealPage to sell landlords on the idea of piecemeal “drip pricing” and junk fees.
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November 10, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Priceline’s connection to misleading advertisements for hotel rooms, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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November 10, 2026
Even as Congress advances new anti-robocall legislation, fewer than half of US phone companies have yet to fully implement technology designed to curb unwanted calls, according to a new report.
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November 10, 2026
Federal Trade Commission economists outlined how they assessed potential consumer harm from Instacart’s delivery fees and John Deere’s repair restrictions, presenting models that examined hidden charges and the tradeoffs between equipment prices and repair costs.
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November 10, 2026
Democratic control of Congress will likely lead to more oversight of antitrust decisions by the Trump administration and attempts to pass legislation to curtail the excesses of Big Tech.
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November 10, 2026
McDonald’s may be using algorithmic pricing tools to facilitate collusion between franchisees and squeeze customers with higher prices, according to Democratic lawmakers.
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November 10, 2026
Restaurant software and fintech company Toast Inc. has been accused by the Federal Trade Commission and states of imposing hidden and unauthorized fees on restaurants, along with making it difficult to cancel subscriptions.
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November 10, 2026
The Department of Justice has transferred the investigations targeting two road asphalt mergers to the states most affected by the deals. Now, state attorneys general can oversee antitrust remedy negotiations.
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November 10, 2026
Payment processor Riverside Payments, its affiliate and their operators agreed to pay $600,000 to resolve claims filed by the Federal Trade Commission and Washington’s attorney general.
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November 10, 2026
Carlos Duque, a former civilian Army official, pleaded guilty to his role in a bribery and fraud scheme targeting a technology innovation lab in the Pacific, according to the Department of Justice.
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November 10, 2026
Jonathan Kanter is an entrepreneur again.
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November 02, 2026
DoorDash’s proposed $17 billion acquisition of Instacart is likely to draw an in-depth investigation from federal and state antitrust regulators as the merger carries the potential to eliminate a growing competitor and increase food delivery prices.
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October 27, 2026
With 525,600 minutes in a year, Samuel Levine isn’t wasting time. He’s exploring avenues to help New Yorkers in his role as head of the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. That means pursuing enforcement cases, issuing new rules, and working with the city council on legislation, all at a dizzying pace.
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October 27, 2026
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson is among the leaders coordinating federal responses to artificial intelligence risks as a vice chair of President Donald Trump’s new “Super Intelligence Force.”
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October 27, 2026
On Sept. 21, a coalition of 12 states signed a consent agreement with David Ellison, ending their litigation against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger on terms falling far short of the remedies demanded in their complaint just 10 weeks earlier. Why did they abandon so much of their position? What had changed in those 10 weeks?
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October 27, 2026
The fast-fashion company Shein, which has drawn congressional scrutiny, reportedly agreed to pay $100 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission investigation, according to Reuters.
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October 27, 2026
A bipartisan House trio wants to protect employees who disclose wrongdoing to the Federal Trade Commission. But the lawmakers have gone a step further, tying the bill to the legal thriller depicting Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.
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October 27, 2026
While most US adults still do not use artificial intelligence chatbots, adoption is rising, according to a Pew Research Center survey released earlier this year. Against that backdrop, two former government officials have published a brief examining the legal risks posed by the technology.
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October 27, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against Lens.com for deceptive pricing is its second major litigation against an online contact lens retailer.
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October 27, 2026
Casino operators Fertitta Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment can be expected to tell regulators examining their proposed merger that geographic antitrust markets should be defined broadly due to an increasing number of casinos in regions adjacent to the cities and towns where they operate.
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October 27, 2026
Nov. 5 — The American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section’s Fall Forum is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in Washington, DC. One of the sessions is titled “AI in the Antitrust Practice: Powerful Tool, New Risks.” For more details, go to: https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2026/10/aba-antitrust-fall-forum/.
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October 27, 2026
The Trump administration “must not rubber stamp” major food mergers, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren told the antitrust agencies.