The Federal Trade Commission last month announced a sweeping ban on most noncompete agreements, but some exceptions were granted for certain mergers and acquisitions. Those exceptions come through a sale-of-a-business provision in the agency’s...... Read More
The owner of WISH-TV failed to show evidence that a pair of television distributors racially discriminated against him in declining to pay retransmission fees to carry WISH and sister station WNDY-TV, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.... Read More
Concerned about Indiana’s rising health care costs, the Legislature this year approved a new law that will bring more scrutiny to health care mergers and acquisitions. Under the measure, an Indiana health care entity that is involved in a merger or...... Read More
Several new laws pushed by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce will take effect this year to help protect businesses from certain kinds of lawsuits and potentially encourage more settlements. Such tweaks to tort law were among the chamber’s top priorities.... Read More
A Marion Superior Court jury awarded an Avon man more than $42 million for serious injuries he suffered in a 2017 motorcycle crash with a pickup truck driven by a Tesla Inc. employee. The jury returned the verdict Wednesday against Tesla and...... Read More
The proposed merger involving a grocery store chain with a sizable Indiana footprint is on hold for the moment, as the Federal Trade Commission seeks to block Kroger Company’s $24.6 billion acquisition of the Albertsons Companies Inc.... Read More
To some, it seemed like the 2023 session of the Indiana General Assembly marked a turning point for marijuana-related legislation. This year, there were 10 marijuana-related bills filed in the Indiana House and Senate. None made it out of committee.... Read More
The Indiana Supreme Court has rejected Vannin Healthcare Global’s petition to transfer, after the company sought for the high court to hear an appeal of a $4.3 million jury verdict rendered for Lafayette-based Illumination International in a dispute that...... Read More
For some Indiana law firms involved with mergers and acquisitions, 2023 was a slower year. But attorneys like David Barrett, an executive partner in Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP’s Indianapolis office, say they expect things to pick up in 2024.... Read More
Indiana’s judicial nominees to 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana are being formally renominated by the Biden administration after Senate Republicans returned their names to the White House on Dec. 20.... Read More
