Antitrust

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The Eighth Circuit Just Became the Ultimate Safe Harbor for Mega-Settlements

The Eighth Circuit’s Billion-Dollar August Class action objectors hoping to blow up multi-billion-dollar deals just hit a brick wall in the Midwest. In a stunning eight-day span this August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit delivered ...

18 Sept 2026Class Actions, Antitrust
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The Seventh Circuit’s Surgical Rule 23(f) Grant in the Elite Universities Case is a Wake-Up Call for Class Certification Experts

The End of the "Battle of the Experts" Deferral at Class Certification For years, plaintiffs’ counsel in complex antitrust class actions have relied on a comfortable, albeit flawed, procedural crutch at the class certification stage: presenting a cre...

17 Sept 2026Class Action, Antitrust
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Algorithmic Price-Fixing and the Circuit Split: Why the Third Circuit's Atlantic City Casino Revival Changes the Game for AI Antitrust Litigation

The Defense Bar’s AI Shield Just Cracked For the past few years, corporate defendants facing antitrust class actions over algorithmic pricing software have relied on a comfortable, formalistic defense: We didn’t talk to our competitors; we just bough...

15 Sept 2026Antitrust, Class Action
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Algorithmic Collusion Hits a Circuit Split: Third Circuit Revives AI Price-Fixing Class Action

The End of the Smoke-Filled Room For decades, antitrust litigators hunting for Section 1 Sherman Act violations have looked for the proverbial smoke-filled room—emails, recorded calls, or secret meetings where competitors agreed to fix prices. But wh...

14 Sept 2026Antitrust, Class Actions
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Circuit Roulette: The 2026 Appellate Divide on Mega-Settlements and Algorithmic Antitrust

The Death of the Uniform Federal Class Action If you are a litigator operating under the assumption that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 means the same thing in Chicago as it does in St. Louis, 2026 is delivering a brutal wake-up call. A flurry of...

13 Sept 2026Class Actions, Appellate Practice

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