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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The curious saga of the Justice Department’s peculiar decision to save $8 million by shuttering some of its most effective crime-fighting offices gets stranger by the day.
A series of anonymous YouTube videos making the rounds highlights tensions inspired by the Justice Department’s proposal to shut four regional criminal antitrust offices.
Bill Kovacic, a longtime Federal Trade Commission employee who served as chairman in 2008, spent the last day of his tenure at the FTC surrounded by boxes packed with his books and international...
The exploding number of incidents of drug shortages— frequently leading to skyrocketing prices for life-saving medications—is drawing attention from the White House and US Senate.
Could this case go to the Supreme Court?
It’s not often that an FTC press release comes with a warning label.