A coalition of advocacy groups and lawmakers urged the Federal Trade Commission to hold companies accountable as online harms against people of color and women proliferate.
What was going on in the Supreme Court’s opinion in West Virginia v. EPA? Everyone has a sense the new “major questions doctrine” will create problems for the antitrust agencies. But what kinds of problems exactly?
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The agency devotes a multitude of resources to investigate and charge cases each year and thus does not often dismiss administrative proceedings. When deciding whether to dismiss a case, the agency...
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a cartel that favors specific colleges and universities and harms consumers, according to a letter twenty-one professors and practitioners of law and economics...
Consumer advocacy groups have petitioned the FTC to order CVS to divest Caremark, claiming in a April 14 letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz that the CVS/Caremark merger has harmed consumers.
The Senate may soon consider Senate Bill 465, the Senior Financial Empowerment Act, a law introduced by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D., NY), which would require the FTC to increase its efforts to...
Joaquнn Almunia, Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition Policy, discussed antitrust enforcement in the European Union at an Evening Policy Talk on April 19 at the The...
The Commission has closed a non-public investigation of Olin Corporation’s proposed acquisition of BleachTech LLC, LDJ Seville LLC, LDJ Petersburg LLC, and LDJ Peru LLC for possible anticompetitive...