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FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak.

Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology

June 05, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

Asia, Europe, North America

US FTC eager to find ‘solutions’ to M&A antitrust concerns, Holyoak says
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Data Privacy and Security

June 05, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

Europe, North America

US House panel wants changes to UK data deal over Apple backdoor demand

Antitrust View More

Jury trial for US DOJ bid-rigging case in Oklahoma rescheduled for October

June 07, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: An Oklahoma federal judge agreed to move the jury trial from July to October for the US Department of Justice's case alleging Sioux Erosion Control, part-owner BG Dale Biscoe and estimator Randal... (more story)

US Anesthesia Partners Holdings requests dismissal of amended complaint

June 07, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US Anesthesia Partners Holdings and US Anesthesia Partners of Texas have moved for dismissal of an amended complaint challenging an alleged anticompetitive scheme to monopolize hospital anesthesi... (more story)

BiT Global, Coinbase stipulate to dismissal of US antitrust suit

June 07, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: BiT Global and Coinbase agreed to have their antitrust dispute dismissed by a California federal court, according to a joint stipulation filed today. BiT Global filed the lawsuit last year accusi... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

California lawmakers advance more than 20 AI bills before key deadline

June 06, 2025 | Amy Miller

North America

California lawmakers haven't been deterred by recent federal proposals to prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence. This year, they’ve advanced more than 20 bills regulating various aspects of th... (more story)

OpenAI ramps up fight to reverse US order preserving user chats

June 06, 2025 | Emma Whitford

North America

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is using his platform to condemn a court order requiring the company to preserve user chats marked for deletion, saying it shows the need for doctor-like AI conversation “privilege” as hi... (more story)

US Senate committee pitches AI law moratorium linked to state broadband funding

June 06, 2025 | Emma Whitford

North America

Federal funding to expand high-speed internet would be contingent on states declining to enforce artificial intelligence laws for 10 years, under a new US Senate proposal that appears to be aimed at surviving ... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

United Steelworkers seeks details of Nippon Steel, US Steel ‘partnership’

June 06, 2025 | Wesley Brown

North America

The United Steelworkers union sent an information request to US Steel, seeking details of the company’s deal with Nippon Steel, according to a letter from leadership. President Donald Trump announced on May 23... (more story)

Steelworkers ask US Steel for details of Nippon 'partnership'

June 06, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The United Steelworks sent a letter to US Steel asking for details on its "partnership" with Nippon Steel. "Neither Nippon nor the White House has provided any details on where, exactly, proposed... (more story)

US DOJ asks court to extend abeyance of US Steel suit against CFIUS until June 13

June 06, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice filed a motion on June 5 asking the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to extend the abeyance of US Steel and Nippon Steel's litigation against the Committee on F... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

US judge says BTC-e prosecution not doomed by Russia prisoner swap

June 06, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

A federal judge in San Francisco said today that she's not persuaded by arguments from a man, accused of helping to run the criminal BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange, that the charges against him must be dismisse... (more story)

Google must face US privacy claims over website trackers involving health data

June 06, 2025 | Xu Yuan

North America

Google must face revised privacy claims over the use of its website-tracking technology by health providers, but the claims are limited to a period before Google updated its related policy, a US federal judge ruled.

Privacy measures advance in the California legislature ahead of deadline

June 06, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

North America

The California legislature advanced several privacy bills this week, with multiple measures crossing chambers ahead of a key Friday deadline for legislation to pass out of their house of origin.

Intellectual Property View More

Anchoring jurisdiction to email blast not unreasonable, US judge finds

June 06, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

North America

A dismissal in March of allegations a Canadian resident and her Argentinian business committed federal and state trade secret misappropriation was not enough to trigger an award of attorney fees yesterday, whe... (more story)

Getty Images, Stability AI duel in UK in test of copyright law's reach into AI

June 06, 2025 | Frank Hersey and Inbar Preiss

Europe

The Getty Images v. Stability AI case — due to go to trial in London on June 9 — is a major legal test of how copyright law applies to generative AI. Getty alleges that Stability AI scraped its copyrighted ima... (more story)

Dish Technologies, Sling TV patent dispute against Aylo rejected by UPC

June 06, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Dish Technologies and Sling TV’s equivalency claims against Aylo entities and others concerning European patent 2,479,680 have been rejected by the Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent C... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Former Austrian bank chief seeks information from US on laundering charges

June 06, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: In a motion for a bill of particulars, former Austrian banker Peter Weinzierl asked US prosecutors to provide more information about the underlying crime in Brazil on which its money laundering c... (more story)

Toronto man charged in Canada’s first prosecution for Russia sanctions violations

June 06, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

A Toronto businessman was charged with exporting electronic components to Russia in what authorities say is Canada’s first prosecution for violating the country’s sanctions on Moscow. The businessman and his c... (more story)

Shadow banking network run by Iranian brothers sanctioned by US

June 06, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department sanctioned more than 30 individuals and entities tied to Iranian brothers Mansour, Nasser, and Fazlolah Zarringhalam, who have collectively laundered billions of dollar... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US Fed to propose easing of post-2008 capital requirement for big banks, Bowman says

June 06, 2025

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

MLex Summary: Michelle Bowman, in her first speech as the US Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, said the central bank would propose easing a post-Great Recession capital requirement for large banks.... (more story)

UK television art expert jailed for terror-financing breach over artwork sales

June 06, 2025 | Martin Coyle

Europe

An art dealer known from appearances on hit British television show Bargain Hunt was sentenced to two and a half years in prison today after becoming the first person to be convicted of failing to make disclos... (more story)

Pension funds want clarity on bill requirement to invest in UK

June 06, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

Pension funds would like more clarity that a new UK government bill that could require them to invest in the UK would not contravene their legal duty to seek to provide the best possible returns for their cust... (more story)

Trade View More

US Commerce erred in changing position on Thai pipe dumping case, CIT rules

June 06, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker

Asia, North America

The US Commerce Department improperly altered its approach in calculating the dumping rate for imported Thai pipes while claiming that it had not, the Court of International Trade determined today.

US CIT issues partial remand for 2020 review on Thai steel pipes (correct*)

June 06, 2025

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade partially remanded the Commerce Department's second remand determination for the 2020 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on the antidumping du... (more story)

US trade court partially upholds antidumping determination for fish fillet imports

June 06, 2025 | Zack Budryk

Asia, North America

The US Court of International Trade partially sustained an antidumping duty by the Commerce Department for certain Vietnamese imports of frozen fish fillets.

State Aid View More

Czechs sign Korean nuclear deal despite EU’s subsidy warnings

June 05, 2025 | Lewis Crofts, Joanna Sopinska and Nicholas Hirst

Europe

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and the Czech government have signed a deal to provide nuclear reactors at the Dukovany power plant less than a month after the European Commission warned such a move would breach a... (more story)

Audiovisual, cultural content to get EUR211 million in Irish aid boost

June 05, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Unscripted audiovisual programs with Irish and European cultural content can get national support, the European Commission said today, clearing a government program worth 211 million euros. The p... (more story)

Review of EU state aid rules to support affordable housing open for comments

June 05, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Companies, authorities and other interested parties now have the chance to provide input to the European Commission to help it assess how the service of general economic interest state aid rules ... (more story)

Energy View More

Simplify the EU Green Claims Directive, carmakers’ association urges

June 06, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: EU companies are at risk of “a disproportionate and unworkable obligation” if the EU Green Claims Directive were adopted in its current text, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association AC... (more story)

Data access on Spanish blackout is lacking, electricity lobby group finds

June 06, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Europe

Electricity system operators are restricting access to data about the recent blackout in Spain and Portugal, the secretary-general of a European lobby group has said. Eurelectric and other associations represe... (more story)

Sustainable jet fuel industry risks EU penalties without mature production technologies

June 05, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Europe

Europe’s sustainable jet fuel industry has a clear mandate to reduce emissions but lacks the technologies needed to supply fuel at scale beyond 2030, according to a new study from SAF supplier SkyNRG. Most sus... (more story)

Technology View More

Daily Mail seeks limits on Google deposition in US DOJ adtech trial

June 06, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The Daily Mail asked a Virginia federal judge to prohibit Google from raising matters unrelated to remedies proceedings in US Department of Justice-led adtech monopolization litigation during Goo... (more story)

Google seeks 3.5 hours to depose US DOJ cooperating witness in adtech antitrust case

June 06, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Google filed an emergency motion for relief with a Virginia federal court overseeing remedies proceedings in a monopolization trial against a US Department of Justice-led coalition, raising conce... (more story)

US authorities take keen interest in Brazil social media dispute

June 06, 2025 | Henrique Santiago, Madeline Hughes

Latin America

Political figures in Brazil and the United States have been paying close attention to actions taken against Big Tech in Brazil. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, known for his combative stance toward ... (more story)