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FTC wins reversal, injunction in Pennsylvania hospital merger suit

The federal district court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, erred in finding that the FTC too narrowly defined the geographic market in its challenge to the proposed merger between Penn State Hershey Medical Center and Pinnacle Health System, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philade

Liability of Internet ad network affirmed, but disgorgement erroneous

Although LeadClick Media was properly found liable under the FTC Act and Connecticut law for its role in the use of deceptive websites to market weight loss products, its corporate parent CoreLogic could not be held liable as a relief defendant in a federal/state enforcement

Debt relief scam operators banned from industry, ordered to pay nearly $1.8M

The federal district court in Santa Ana, California, has entered an order permanently banning the operators of an alleged scam "mortgage assistance relief service" from the loan modification and debt relief businesses, the FTC announced yesterday. The cou

Insurance broker could have violated antitrust, RICO laws through alleged bid rigging scheme

A provider of insurance brokerage and consulting services could have violated federal antitrust and racketeering law by facilitating a scheme among its insurance carrier partners to rig bids, limit competition, and fix prices for excess casualty insurance products, the feder

Putative class claims that banks fixed foreign exchange rates survive dismissal

A group of nearly one dozen major international banks and financial institutions may have participated in an illegal conspiracy to fix prices in the foreign exchange or foreign currency markets by manipulating numerous benchmark rates and bid/ask spreads, the federal distric

BMI consent decree doesn’t require full-work licensing

A decades-old consent decree, which defined Broadcast Music, Inc.’s (BMI’s) repertory as "those compositions, the right of public performance of which [BMI] has…the right to license or sublicense," did not require full-work licensing—a blan

U.S. consent decree permitting Cision/PR Newswire combination approved

A proposed final judgment intended to resolve Department of Justice Antitrust Division concerns over a merger’s impact on competition in the U.S. media contact database market has been approved by the federal district court in Washington, D.C. The settlement resolved a

Japanese lock and key maker to pay a $9M fine for role in auto parts bid rigging conspiracy

ALPHA Corporation is the latest company to be charged in the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s ongoing investigation of the automobile parts industry. Today, the Japan-based manufacturer of lock and key products was named in a one-count felony charge

Ten Eastern California real estate investors sentenced for bid rigging, fraud at public foreclosure auctions

Ten Eastern California real estate investors were sentenced on September 12 for their participation in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Eastern California, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division has annou

Provigil ‘pay-for-delay’ class action remanded for numerosity analysis

In a pay-for-delay action concerning the prescription drug Provigil, the federal district court in Philadelphia erred in analyzing the numerosity factors for class certification when it considered the late stage of the litigation as relevant to the judicial economy factor an

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