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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
February 14, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Antitrust
February 14, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Financial Crime, Financial Services
February 14, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Antitrust View More
February 15, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Anthropic told a US federal court that a Department of Justice proposal for Google to divest its stake in any company that controls an artificial intelligence product would injure it and harm competition more broadly.
February 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Anthropic told a US federal court it was "blindsided" by a remedy proposal put forth by the Department of Justice and coalition of states in their monopolization lawsuit against Google because it... (more story)
February 15, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Chris May
North America
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has directed senior management to make a list of employees currently serving on probation as the government's Office of Personnel Management advocates for c... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 14, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
How a US appeals court handles arguments over remedies in Epic Games’ case against Google could have implications for the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the tech behemoth’s search business in Wash... (more story)
February 14, 2025 | Chris May
North America
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson moved to sever links between the agency and the American Bar Association today, blasting the group’s “apparent capture” by Big Tech and its promotion of "ra... (more story)
February 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said FTC political appointees holding leadership positions in the American Bar Association or participating in ABA events doesn't advance the ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 15, 2025 | Alex Wilts
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Juniper Networks and the US Department of Justice will appear at another case management conference in two weeks to discuss a trial date for the government’s bid to block the compan... (more story)
February 14, 2025 | Claude Marx
North America
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he plans to ask the FTC to endorse the US Department of Justice’s position that the president should be allowed to remove members of regulatory commiss... (more story)
February 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Tempur Sealy, Mattress Firm and the US Federal Trade Commission jointly filed a motion to withdraw from the agency's administrative case from adjudication after the companies closed their transaction.
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 15, 2025 | Mike Swift and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Alexander Vinnik, who pleaded guilty to running the BTC-e money laundering platform that federal prosecutors said processed billions of dollars from global cyberattacks, was returned to Russia this week in a p... (more story)
February 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Plaintiffs opposed Amazon’s motion to dismiss US privacy claims accusing it of sharing users' viewing history with its other corporate subsidiaries. They said their third amended complaint adequa... (more story)
February 14, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Google and Apple have reinstated TikTok to their app stores, an action that published reports attributed to guidance from the US attorney general.
Intellectual Property View More
February 14, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has withdrawn a show cause order and directed Carrum Technologies and Stellantis to instead brief the question of jurisdiction in a dispute over discovery ancillar... (more story)
February 14, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Belgian technology company Barco today requested an injunction from the Unified Patent Court in Brussels to halt Yealink’s sales of allegedly infringing wireless conferencing products. Yealink countered the cl... (more story)
February 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Moderna filed answering briefs to GlaxoSmithKline motions to dismiss counterclaims in the company’s two patent infringement suits over mRNA technology in Covid and RSV vaccines. GSK moved to dism... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Austin Michael Taylor, the founder of CluCoin, a cryptocurrency token project in Miami, was sentenced to 27 months in US prison, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay r... (more story)
February 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham announced Brian Young will serve as the agency’s director of enforcement. Young has been serving in an acting capacity sin... (more story)
February 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm’s request to stay a trial judge’s order for disclosure of anticipated expert witness testimony in his money lau... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK portfolio management services won't, for now, see Sustainability Disclosure Requirements mandated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The FCA said today that it wants to ensure that an extensi... (more story)
February 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK companies applying for collective investment schemes — to be treated as authorized unit trusts, authorized contractual schemes or authorized open-ended investment companies — have received a d... (more story)
February 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Securities and Markets Authority today started an EU-wide supervisory action with national competent authorities on compliance and internal audit functions of management companies of... (more story)
Trade View More
February 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: US President Donald Trump's proposed "reciprocal” trade policy is a "step in the wrong direction", the European Commission said today. The EU applies some of the lowest tariffs globally and so se... (more story)
February 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Imports of decor paper from China into the EU will be subject to provisional dumping tariffs of up to 34.9 percent, the European Commission said today. Decor paper is used to create quality finis... (more story)
February 14, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce has urged the US to abandon its zero-sum mentality and correct its decision to impose a 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum imports, describing it as unilateral p... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Greek refinery Motor Oil Hellas can receive a direct grant of over 111 million euros to back a project for the generation of renewable hydrogen, the European Commission said today. The measure, w... (more story)
February 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Romanian support measures for Timișoara airport and individual agreements with Wizz Air — originally cleared by the European Commission but annulled by the EU General Court — have now been set as... (more story)
February 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today opened a public consultation on the ways to use the EU budget to support the bloc’s competitiveness. This consultation is part of the overall public consultation exe... (more story)
Energy View More
February 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Sweden's decision to include railways, waterborne navigation, off-road transportation, agriculture, forestry and fishing in the EU’s Emissions Trading System for buildings, road transport and add... (more story)
February 13, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Members of the Federal Trade Commission and other key regulatory officials can be fired by the president, and the US Department of Justice will no longer come to their defense, according to a letter the DOJ se... (more story)
February 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris sent a letter to Senator Richard Durbin informing him that the US Department of Justice has determined the statutory protections preventing the president fro... (more story)
Technology View More
February 14, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Pornography websites saw the UK online safety regulator recently lay out new obligations to verify the ages of users to stop children getting in. For some, Ofcom said, enforcement would start immediately. But ... (more story)
February 14, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Popular digital platforms or services that are used by more than 10 percent of Australians should be subjected to additional “mandatory” responsibilities to safeguard their users’ online safety, a report prepa... (more story)
February 14, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
TikTok’s algorithm – and if it is an editorial decision – came under significant scrutiny in a Washington DC courtroom during a lengthy motion to dismiss hearing. The company was in court trying to get the law... (more story)