( May 13, 2026, 11:24 AM EDT) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A company that purchased from ADT LLC its rights to settlement funds in an antitrust class action under the Sherman Act against Visa U.S.A. Inc., MasterCard International Inc. and numerous banks that serve as payment-card issuers for those networks and a second company that purchased an interest in those rights were granted partial judgment on the pleadings by a federal judge in New York who found that the parties’ asset purchase and sale agreement (APSA) was tied to the lawsuit rather than a particular version of the complaint as ADT alleged....