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Data Privacy and Security
August 15, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Trade
August 15, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia
Financial Services
August 15, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Antitrust View More
August 16, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Las Vegas hotels and Cendyn — which provided the hotels with an algorithmic tool to set hotel room rates — did not have a vertical relationship, and there was no causal link showing an agreement and an anticom... (more story)
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: UnitedHealth and Amedisys submitted to the US District Court for the District of Maryland a list of contacts at the US Department of Justice who participated in written or oral communications wit... (more story)
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Harley-Davidson motorcycle buyers failed to state a claim that would allow their allegations of antitrust allegations against the company to move forward, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
August 15, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
US writers accusing OpenAI of copyright infringement will have to disclose what information supports allegations that ChatGPT harms competition in the market for books, a US magistrate judge in New York said. ... (more story)
August 15, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Gail Slater and the rest of the Trump administration are charting a path in antitrust enforcement that is becoming increasingly clear. "We can call it MAGA Antitrust. We could call it America First antitrust,"... (more story)
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice and the National Economic Council announced an effort to identify state laws that significantly and adversely affect the national economy or interstate economic activ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice filed a status report to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in the matter of TikTok v. the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, asking for th... (more story)
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: T-Mobile and UScellular have submitted a joint filing to the US Federal Communications Commission opposing an application for review from the Rural Wireless Association, Open Technology Institute... (more story)
August 15, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Under Australia's new merger regime, certain acquisitions of leases and interests in land that meet the notification thresholds must be notified from Jan. 1, 2026, the Australian competition regu... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
August 15, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo and Mike Swift
North America
The question of whether "off" actually means off in Google's privacy settings will be put to the test at a federal trial that opens next week in San Francisco.
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has stayed a magistrate judge’s order requiring attorneys general from 20 states to hand over documents from more than 250 s... (more story)
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: X Corp. asked a US appeals court to rehear a case bringing negligence and product liability claims against it based on defective reporting-infrastructure design, saying that the panel’s opinion r... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
August 15, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Apple’s decision to reimplement the blood oxygen feature in its Apple Watch devices following a ruling by US Customs and Border Patrol — avoiding an exclusion order by the US International Trade Commission — i... (more story)
August 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Authors bringing US copyright claims against Anthropic opposed an appeal on class certification, saying that the order does nothing groundbreaking. “The petition presents none of the fair-use and... (more story)
August 14, 2025 | Nick Robertson
Asia, North America
Pharmaceutical deals led the way in patent business in the last two weeks. BioNTech and GSK grabbed headlines with a $500 million mRNA vaccine patent deal and settlement of infringement litigation, while Acces... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The chief executive of a Latin music conglomerate was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for conspiring to violate the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act by conducting business... (more story)
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The wholesale firings at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may proceed, a US federal appeals court ruled. The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit held that the lower court lacked jur... (more story)
August 15, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Companies need to get on top of bad practice or face the consequences, the head of the UK’s fraud agency told MLex, ahead of new anti-fraud legislation due to come into force in weeks.
Financial Services View More
August 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK consumer group Which has reiterated its call to the government to continue protecting consumers, after the Labour administration pledged to slash regulatory red tape in its efforts to boost th... (more story)
August 15, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman, the Fed’s banking regulator, urged the central bank to consider lowering a capital requirement called the Community Bank Leverage Ratio from 9 percent to 8 percent ... (more story)
August 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK life insurers are well-intentioned and seek to ensure consumers receive good outcomes when transferring their pensions, the sector regulator said following a review. The Financial Conduct Auth... (more story)
Trade View More
August 15, 2025
Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative has announced country-specific and first-come, first-served in-quota allocations of tariff-rate quotas on imported raw cane sugar, refined and specialty ... (more story)
August 15, 2025
Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission determined that US industry is materially injured due to imports of Chinese hexamine. The US Department of Commerce will now impose antidumping and antisubsi... (more story)
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The office of the US Trade Representative announced an Oct. 7 public hearing on China's obligations to the World Trade Organization ahead of an annual report to Congress. The deadline for written... (more story)
State Aid View More
August 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The dismissal of a claim against Greater Manchester Combined Authority alleging it breached subsidy rules through a loan to a property developer can't be challenged, the Competition Appeal Tribun... (more story)
August 14, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Top EU judges have been asked to rule whether airline group SAS must pay interest on a state aid that had been authorized by the European Commission, but subsequently cancelled by the EU's lower-tier court. Th... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Hungary has secured European Commission approval for its plans to grant 264 million euros in public funding to Sunwoda Automotive Energy Technology to set up an electric vehicle battery factory i... (more story)
Energy View More
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU economy’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by 3.4 percent in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, reaching 900 million metric tons of CO₂, the EU statistical of... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Sustainability-Linked Loans market is more mature and shows better practice when compared to 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority said today, while pointing out that there are still barri... (more story)
August 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU energy regulator ACER today approved the 2024 security of supply risk assessment produced by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, or ENTSO-E. The 10-year outl... (more story)
Technology View More
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A federal judge granted Media Matters for America's request for an injunction against an investigation launched by the US Federal Trade Commission, finding that the agency’s investigation is reta... (more story)
August 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Former national security officials and scholars warned a US appeals court that forcing Google to make changes to its app store in a monopolization lawsuit will significantly weaken the security p... (more story)
August 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Messaging platform 4chan has received a provisional notice of a breach of the Online Safety Act for failing to comply with two information requests from the media regulator Ofcom. The watchdog la... (more story)