The DOJ sued Apple on Thursday in the latest antitrust action against Big Tech. The DOJ and 15 states claim Apple monopolized the smartphone market, hurt smaller rivals and drove up prices.
The EU is expected to move a step closer this week to seizing some of the profits from about $280 billion worth of Russian assets frozen by the West since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. EU leaders want to send the money it confiscates to Ukraine. Exactly how it would happen is a complex legal issue that will set a potentially contentious precedent.Here are some of the options on the table.
A dog named Carter and a cat named Sassie are at the heart of a civil procedure puzzle now under consideration at the U.S. Supreme Court. Alison Frankel has the story of a new opposition brief urging the justices to skip a case posing the question of whether federal courts should base jurisdictional analysis on the complaint as it appears at the time defendants removed the case or on a complaint amended to strip away references to federal law. Carter and Sassie, Frankel writes, are a good reminder that real creatures underlie even the wonkiest civ pro issues.
