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Beijing’s potential retaliation against planned EU curbs on Chinese imports is the chief concern among member states, EU diplomats said
A Spring 2026 inspection of Lakeland Behavioral Health, a youth psychiatric facility in Missouri operated by Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), resulted in government investigators issuing an immediate jeopardy citation to the facility, the worst citation a facility can...
With pharmaceutical companies and inventors increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) for drug discovery and development, legal challenges to the validity of patents on drugs that were developed with assistance from AI may start emerging in the coming years, health care and...
When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz at the start of the conflict with the United States, industries around the globe that depended on petrochemical inputs, from fuel to fertilizer, saw shortages and price jumps due to the restrained trade. That shortage, however, has rippled out far...
The European Commission is investigating whether Paramount Skydance would need to abandon a long-standing joint venture to distribute films with Universal Pictures to address competition concerns over its proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, according to three people with direct...
DOJ antitrust division’s political leadership for months imposed tight restrictions on career staff’s investigation of Paramount Skydance’s (PSKY) $81 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), preventing agency attorneys from deposing key Paramount executives or...
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Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of EU and UK competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week...
Welcome to The Antitrust Agenda, our weekly analysis of timing and priorities at the FTC, DOJ, and state AG offices. Key stories we’re following this week...
Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward is emerging as the victor in an internal fight that had threatened his role as DOJ’s No. 3 official, sources familiar with the matter said. Woodward is a major architect of the Trump administration’s light-touch antitrust enforcement – an...
Optimism for Democratic nominees could pave way for unshackling of Export-Import Bank; Scott says housing bill deal as soon as next week. In public, the fight over partisan agency board seats continued this week with Senate Democrats calling on President Donald Trump to drop his blockade...
The information contained in this report is compiled from the FDA’s Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database. The MAUDE database contains reports of deaths, injuries, and malfunctions relating to the use of medical devices and is updated monthly with reports...
As major shareholders push boutique fitness franchisor Xponential Fitness (XPOF) to sell some or all of its five remaining brands, a newly filed lawsuit stemming from the 2025 sale of CycleBar and Rumble could complicate future deals by raising concerns that franchise-related liabilities...
When Rohit Chopra takes the helm as secretary of the newly formed California Business and Consumer Services Agency (BCSA) on July 1, the former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director and FTC commissioner will have broad power to enforce consumer protection and corporate oversight...
Poland has joined a group of EU countries calling for an urgent overhaul of the bloc’s trade defense instruments to deal with rising imports of underpriced goods from China and other countries, according to three people familiar with the...
A report published today by the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) indicates that the three largest Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are denying requests for stays at inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) at an outsized rate. The report raises...
Welcome to Labor Thursday, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week...
Meta invoiced AI companies in recent weeks while discussing with the European Commission how to potentially resolve antitrust concerns over the company’s policy to restrict AI assistants from...
JD.com’s proposed acquisition of Ceconomy could squeeze out EU-based consumer electronics retailers and manufacturers by favoring Chinese products on Ceconomy’s platform, executives at European consumer electronics retailers told The Capitol...
Proponents — and opponents — of Cintas’ (CTAS) proposed $5.5 billion acquisition of uniform rental rival UniFirst (UNF) are stepping up their efforts to lobby the White House ahead of a Thursday 11:59 p.m. deadline for the FTC to decide whether to deepen its investigation into the...
A Paramount Skydance (PSKY) executive, in a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, defended his company’s planned $81 billion takeover of rival Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) as a boon for a range of movie and television studio workers and said that the merged company wouldn’t...
DOJ’s antitrust division is engaged in settlement talks with the nation’s largest egg producers to resolve an ongoing investigation into potential industry price coordination, sources familiar with the matter said....
Private equity firm Blackstone (BX) probably faces a tough choice in its $11.5 billion bid for New Mexico power company TXNM Energy (TXNM): accept a utility regulator’s likely fine and order to unwind a $400 million stock purchase, or appeal that decision, extending the regulatory...
China’s antirust authority has launched an in-depth phase 3 review of London-based mining giant Anglo American’s (LSE: AAL) proposed acquisition of Canada’s Teck Resources (TECK), sources familiar with the matter...
SCOTUS rules in favor of generic drugmaker in “skinny labeling” case. On June 4, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion to reverse a previous Federal Circuit ruling in a patent case filed by drugmaker Amarin (AMRN) against its generic competitor Hikma, ruling that Hikma had not...
Representatives for Paramount Skydance (PSKY) and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) are scheduled to meet with European Commission officials on June 23 for a key discussion at which the enforcer could indicate that it’s open to clearing the $81 billion transaction in phase 1 or instead plans...
The European Commission is preparing to open an anti-dumping investigation into imports of certain polyether polyols from China, according to two people familiar with the matter. The move is part of a broader effort to curb what Brussels sees as a surge in unfairly priced chemical imports...
EU duty-free steel imports could, in practice, fall by more than the initially proposed 47% under a new quota mechanism due to enter into force on July 1, according to two people familiar with the matter. The European Commission plans to set aside a portion of that quota, which could...
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Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, brought to you by Europe Executive Editor Javier Espinoza and Senior Correspondents Lydia O’Neal, Barbara Pianese, Joanna Sopinska and Catherine Stupp. This week, we look at the Open Markets Institute’s submission to the CMA on Paramount...
What’s next for Colorado after Gov. Polis leaves? Colorado Gov. Jared Polis last week vetoed a bill to ban corporations from setting prices and wages with surveillance data. The legislation, described by advocates as the strongest of its kind in the nation, went further than other...
Welcome to The Asia Antitrust Agenda, compiled by Eliot Gao, Huayang Chen and Jasmine Chen Rui. This week, China moves to increase scrutiny of overseas investment as the U.S. imposes fresh restrictions on computer chip sales to Chinese entities. Also, Japan’s antitrust regulator is...
Bowman says Fed staff are defying Silicon Valley Bank investigation. Unnamed Federal Reserve officials are refusing to comply with an outside investigation into the causes of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse, Fed Vice Chair of Supervision Michelle Bowman said...
A new study by Interisle Consulting Group suggests that cybercriminal demand represents “a significant share of the domain name market”—the digital ecosystem where domain registrars and registry operators facilitate the buying, selling, and management of web...
In 2022, the Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule expected to increase competition in the hearing aid market by giving patients with mild-to-moderate hearing loss access to over-the-counter hearing aids, a potentially cheaper alternative to expensive prescription...
The European Commission has sent new requests for information to cinemas across Europe as it steps up its review of Paramount Skydance’s proposed $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to two people familiar with the...
The January acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate gave Compass (COMP) several major real estate brands, including Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Sotheby’s International Realty, and Better Homes, making it the country’s largest real estate brokerage by agent...
Union Pacific (UNP) is facing a fresh obstacle to its $71.5 billion effort to create the nation’s first transcontinental railroad by acquiring rival Norfolk Southern (NSC): the DOJ economist leading the antitrust division’s analysis of the deal has previously expressed skepticism of...
The bidding consortium involved in the proposed $55 billion takeover of videogame publisher Electronic Arts (EA) is expected to notify its transaction to the European Commission under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) before the summer, according to two people familiar with...
Bayer CropScience’s (BAYN) commitments to DOJ that purport to end anticompetitive restrictions in the company’s loyalty programs has industry participants doubtful about its enforceability, transparency, and...
Supreme Court rules delivery and rideshare drivers can litigate claims, aren’t bound by forced arbitration. The Supreme Court ruled last week that a distributor transporting products without crossing state lines was engaged in interstate commerce and therefore qualified for exception...
The European Commission is likely to delay its proposal to curb exports of aluminum scrap until early summer, three people familiar with the matter told The Capitol Forum. A main reason for the postponement is officials’ concerns that the proposal might strain relations with India after...
Recently-unsealed whistleblower lawsuit accuses Corcept of off-label marketing. Originally filed in February 2017 on behalf of the United States of America, almost 30 states, and unnamed insurance policyholders, the just-unsealed lawsuit alleges that Corcept (CORT) engaged in off- label...
Saipem (SPM) and Subsea7 (SUBC) are considering offering divestitures in Northern Europe, if necessary, to secure phase 1 approval from the European Commission for their $4.6 billion merger, according to sources close to the...
Two Democratic lawmakers last week urged Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson to investigate Zillow (Z) and other real estate platforms over their referral practices, according to a letter obtained exclusively by The Capitol...
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Earlier today, the FDA published a warning letter that the agency sent to Medline (MDLN), citing the company for several systemic failures in how it has responded to bacterial contamination in its ReadyPrep Chlorhexidine Gluconate (CHG) antiseptic wipes, which are used to prepare...
The European Commission is set to open a new anti-dumping investigation into Chinese imports of polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT), a biodegradable plastic, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The move aims to shield EU production of another key chemical in the value...
Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, brought to you by Europe Executive Editor Javier Espinoza and Senior Correspondents Lydia O’Neal, Barbara Pianese, Joanna Sopinska and Catherine Stupp. This week, we look at fresh pressure on the European Commission to move ahead with a fine...
Will Paxton’s replacement continue his antitrust and anti-Big Tech work? When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton exits office in January 2027, he’ll leave a considerable hole in state antitrust and anti-Big Tech enforcement—and it’s not yet clear that his successor will be able or...
A group of state attorneys general reviewing Paramount Skydance’s (PSKY) proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is increasingly convinced that the $81 billion deal would harm industry workers, movie theater operators and streaming services by combining two of the...
