The European Union's antitrust enforcer on Monday outlined steps for Illumina to take as it unwinds its $8 billion reacquisition of cancer-testing outfit Grail, after the watchdog barred the deal over concerns about competition for new cancer detection tests.
A Georgia federal court has refused to toss an antitrust suit accusing Tyson Foods of driving a company out of the poultry rendering market in the Southeast through a group boycott and intimidation tactics that forced the owners to sell the business well below its value.
A U.S. district judge on Monday blocked Penguin Random House LLC's planned $2.18 billion purchase of Simon & Schuster after finding the move would likely hurt competition in the market for the rights to anticipated top-selling books.
The U.S. Department of Justice said Monday that the president of a Montana paving and asphalt contractor pled guilty to criminal charges for trying to monopolize the market for highway crack-sealing services, marking the agency's first criminal monopolization case in decades.
A health care staffing company pled guilty in Nevada federal court Thursday to charges over an alleged scheme to suppress the wages of nurses working in Las Vegas schools, marking the first successful prosecution of criminal charges in a labor-side antitrust case.