A federal judge has dismissed an antitrust lawsuit alleging that an agreement between online DVD rental leader Netflix and Wal-Mart triggered market consolidation that led rival Blockbuster to hike the price of its online rental service.

The Fourth Circuit court of appeals has found that software maker Novell's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft should be allowed to proceed, overturning a lower court's ruling that Novell abandoned that right when it sold its operating system to rival Caldera.

Stand-alone private antitrust suits and follow-on litigation will both be allowed in China, according to a draft regulation on private enforcement issued by the country’s highest court.  

A US appeals court has upheld a lower court's dismissal of all state antitrust claims against Korean Airlines and Asiana Airlines, quashing a lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

Lawyers for electronics company Apple told a US federal judge yesterday that he should dismiss allegations that the company attempted to shut out competitors to its iTunes music store by limiting the kinds of tracks customers were allowed to download to its market-leading iPod digital music player.

An appeals court in Canada ruled twice last week that consumers wanting to reclaim anti-competitive overcharges suffered at the hands of companies further up the supply chain have no right to such compensation under Canadian law.

A Delaware judge has sided with microprocessor manufacturer Intel in denying the New York Attorney General’s Office the right to access documents filed in a separate antitrust case against the company.

One of the three packaged ice manufacturers targeted in a multi-district antitrust class action has reached a settlement agreement in the case, ending price fixing claims against it.

After months of legal threats and failed negotiations, several high-profile US football players are suing the National Football League for allegedly violating antitrust law by staging a lockout to coerce them into playing in a less-than-competitive marketplace.

A US judge has denied the US Federal Trade Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction that would have stopped the merger of two California medical laboratories while the commission carried out an in-house trial to determine whether the tie-up would harm competition.

Thai Airways International has reached a settlement agreement with class plaintiffs that accused the airline of taking part in a global air cargo price-fixing conspiracy, ending its role in the long-running litigation.

An appeals court ruling has scotched attempts by US citizens to file class actions against foreign national oil companies. 

The US Department of Justice’s antitrust division has closed its investigation of possible collusion in the blood-reagents industry, according to court filings by companies that were the targets of the DoJ’s probe.