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Federal District Court Dismisses Antitrust Suit To Unwind Airline Merger
06/09/2026On April 24, 2026, Judge Micah W.J. Smith of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii dismissed claims by private plaintiffs to unwind Alaska Airlines Inc. and Alaska Air Group, Inc.’s acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines (collectively “Defendants”). Warren Yoshimoto, et al. v. Alaska Airlines Inc., et al., (D. Haw., April 24, 2026).
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Court Denies Northwest MLS’s Bid To Dismiss Compass Antitrust Suit
04/23/2026On March 19, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington denied Northwest Multiple Listing Service’s (“NWMLS”) motion to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit brought by Compass, Inc. and Compass Washington, LLC, finding that Compass had plausibly alleged anticompetitive harm stemming from NWMLS's rules requiring member brokerages to list all properties on its platform before marketing them elsewhere. Compass Inc. v. Northwest Multiple Listing Service (W.D. Wash., March 19, 2026).