Antitrust cases are fought as much in the court of public opinion as in a courtroom, and experts say that calls for a multipronged strategy.
Antitrust lawyers love to talk about the consumer welfare standard and the rule of reason, and indeed these things are central to the intellectual framework of the law and to practical counseling. But when they’re put to the test in high-stakes litigation against Big Tech, courts generally recoil...
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Momentum is building among congressional Democrats to give the Federal Trade Commission funding to create a new bureau to focus on data security and privacy matters, but obstacles remain to getting...
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said the agency will take a back seat in investigating whether large healthcare systems misused federal pandemic relief funds to finance merger and...
Federal Trade Commission member Christine Wilson has applauded legislation that would stop the federal government from purchasing commercial data on individuals without a warrant. It’s another...
Jonathan Kanter, President Joe Biden’s choice to be the Department of Justice’s top antitrust enforcer, has received support from a bipartisan group of people who’ve held the job before.
Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson played seminal roles in shaping antitrust policy. And while both are long dead, the current debate about whether and how to tame large tech...
Auto part and repair scam reports to the Federal Trade Commission grew more than threefold from 2017 to 2020 despite ups and downs in the number of complaints, agency data shows.