Settlement, Appeals, Antitrust Litigation

Title IX Goes Head to Head with Antitrust: NCAA NIL Settlement Challenged by Female Student-Athletes in House v. NCAA

Venable LLP on 7/15/2025

For anyone who thought an unprecedented $2.8 billion settlement agreement actually resolved one of the many murky issues of student-athlete compensation in college athletics —not so fast. On June 6, federal Judge Claudia...more

Update: FTC Drops In-House Challenge of Microsoft’s Activision Acquisition After Ninth Circuit Affirms Denial of Preliminary...

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 6/11/2025

After years of litigating its attempt to block Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently dropped its in-house challenge following the Ninth Circuit’s decision affirming...more

Plaintiffs’ fortitude: It’s an admirable must when battling corporate fat cats

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 6/9/2021

While too many of us get overdosed with clownish depictions - from doctors, hospitals, insurers, and corporations, especially Big Pharma firms - of how the civil justice system operates, it’s always worth a reminder of the...more

What Investors Need to Know About the New $6.2 Billion Visa, Mastercard Settlement

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 9/21/2018

Visa, Inc., Mastercard, Inc., and other financial institutions have agreed to pay merchants between $5.56 billion and $6.26 billion to settle a 13-year old antitrust litigation. For years, the case has driven shrewd investors...more

State Of Louisiana, As Absent Class Member, Escapes CAFA Settlement Trap

Carlton Fields on 1/11/2018

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Pennsylvania district court decision holding the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution prevented a private party from enjoining the state of Louisiana from bringing...more

Contractual Duty to Deal Does Not Equal Antitrust Duty to Deal

McDermott Will & Emery on 8/1/2014

Addressing for the first time whether a patent holder under a contractual duty to deal is also subject to an antitrust duty to deal, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld dismissal of a putative antitrust...more