The FTC says it has secured a settlement with Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits LLC that could become one of the most closely watched competition-law developments for suppliers, distributors, and retailers in years. The proposed stipulated order, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, would resolve the agency’s 2024 lawsuit alleging unlawful price discrimination and impose restrictions aimed at protecting smaller retailers.

What makes this matter especially notable is the FTC’s framing: the agency has described it as the first Robinson-Patman Act enforcement action in a generation to reach this stage.

The FTC’s October 2026 consumer-protection docket may not feature a marquee headline case, but it does send a clear signal: pricing practices remain an active enforcement priority. This month’s announcements include a settlement with an auto dealership group over alleged price-transparency issues and enforcement activity involving major wholesale T-shirt distributors over fair-pricing concerns.

For businesses, the takeaway is straightforward.

The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit against REPS Company, alleging the ticket broker used unlawful and deceptive methods to evade ticket-purchase limits and acquire millions of tickets for high-demand live events. The case, brought as U.S. v. REPS Company, Inc., puts a spotlight on practices that have long drawn scrutiny in the live-entertainment market: bulk purchasing, circumvention of platform controls, and the use of technological workarounds to outmaneuver ordinary consumers.

According to the FTC, REPS allegedly manipulated online ticketing systems designed to enforce purchase caps and preserve fair access.

A federal judge’s approval of Paramount’s settlement with a coalition of states removes a major litigation obstacle to the company’s proposed transaction with Warner, clearing the way for one of the largest media deals in recent years to move toward closing.

A federal judge has approved Paramount’s settlement with a coalition of states challenging its Warner buyout, removing one of the most significant legal obstacles to the transaction’s closing. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín found the proposed consent decree to be a fair resolution of the states’ allegations that the deal could harm competition.

For deal lawyers and antitrust practitioners, the ruling is notable not just because it keeps a major media-industry transaction on track, but because it underscores how merger challenges can be resolved through negotiated structural or behavioral commitments rather than prolonged injunction litigation.

A federal court in North Carolina has declined to dismiss antitrust claims brought by state enforcers against RealPage, allowing a closely watched challenge to rental-pricing software to proceed even after the company reached a settlement with the federal government. The ruling is a notable reminder that federal resolution does not necessarily end parallel state antitrust exposure.

The case centers on allegations that RealPage supplied software used by landlords to coordinate or influence rent-setting in ways that unlawfully inflated apartment prices.

A federal judge has approved Paramount’s settlement with 12 states that challenged the company’s takeover of Warner Bros., clearing a significant hurdle for the transaction and offering a useful look at how state antitrust scrutiny can shape major media deals.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín concluded that the proposed consent decree was a fair and reasonable resolution to the states’ competitive concerns.

A coalition of states has settled its challenge to the proposed $81 billion Paramount-Warner transaction, removing one of the most significant remaining legal threats to the deal. State officials, including Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and California officials, framed the resolution as a way to protect jobs and preserve editorial independence at major news organizations tied to the companies, even after the U.S. Justice Department chose not to step in.

The settlement is notable because it underscores the increasingly important role of state attorneys general in merger enforcement, particularly in politically sensitive industries such as media.

The Federal Trade Commission said it and five states have notified the court that they intend to file a stipulated order to resolve antitrust litigation against Zillow and Redfin, marking a potentially important development in platform-market enforcement.

The Justice Department has announced a proposed resolution with KKR that would impose a record $250 million civil penalty over alleged repeated violations of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act’s premerger notification rules. According to the DOJ’s announcement, KKR Co. GP LLC allegedly failed across at least 16 transactions to provide complete and accurate filings, including by withholding, altering, or omitting required documents that are central to antitrust review.

The case is notable not just for the size of the penalty, but for the government’s theory: this was not framed as a one-off filing error, but as a pattern of conduct that allegedly undermined the HSR regime itself.

A federal judge in Virginia has handed Google a partial win in one of the Justice Department’s most closely watched monopolization cases, declining to order the sale of key pieces of the company’s ad-tech stack while still requiring operational changes aimed at curbing anticompetitive conduct.

KKR’s agreement to pay a reported $250 million to resolve U.S. Department of Justice allegations over repeated violations of federal premerger filing rules is a striking escalation in Hart-Scott-Rodino enforcement. For dealmakers and their counsel, the settlement is more than a large penalty: it is a clear warning that the government is prepared to pursue aggressive remedies when it believes parties have sidestepped antitrust review.

The dispute centers on the HSR Act, which requires parties to certain acquisitions and mergers to notify federal antitrust regulators and observe a waiting period before closing.

The Federal Trade Commission has said it will file a stipulated order to resolve its litigation against Zillow and Redfin, signaling that a closely watched enforcement matter involving two of the best-known online real-estate platforms is nearing a negotiated finish rather than continuing through active court litigation.

Although the FTC’s announcement does not spell out the full terms, the move is notable on its own.

A California federal judge has approved the Justice Department’s settlement allowing Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks to move forward, rejecting objections from a coalition of state attorneys general and closing a closely watched chapter in federal merger enforcement.

The case, United States of America v. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. et al, drew unusual attention because the dispute was not just over the substance of the antitrust remedy, but also over whether the court should probe claims that outside lobbying may have influenced the DOJ’s settlement decision.

Two recent federal criminal actions show the Justice Department continuing to press aggressively in both competition and health care enforcement. In Oklahoma City, a federal jury convicted Sioux Erosion Control Inc., along with one executive and one employee, for participating in a roughly $100 million bid-rigging and price-fixing conspiracy tied to public transportation contracts. In a separate matter, prosecutors unsealed a racketeering indictment accusing four alleged members of the “War Room” of orchestrating a $12 million Medicaid fraud scheme.

Taken together, the matters are a reminder that DOJ is treating criminal antitrust and health care fraud as parallel priority areas, with consequences that extend well beyond the charged defendants.