December 01, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission has been given enhanced powers to regulate the $620 billion car-sales and finance industry under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act---and it is signaling that it plans to use them.
December 01, 2011
Are the effects on innovation becoming an important new criterion in government antitrust deliberations?
December 01, 2011
Health-care providers who want to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program by joining together to form Accountable Care Organizations will need to police themselves carefully to avoid...
December 01, 2011
The FTC staff told the Maine Board of Dental Examiners that its proposed rules on dental hygienists could restrict a pilot project designed to expand access to dental services in areas where no...
December 01, 2011
An eight-day bench hearing held in Minneapolis, Minn., in December 2009, could have far-reaching legal implications for antitrust law, particularly regarding future pharmaceutical cases. It could...
December 01, 2011
Biotechnology firm Gilead Sciences, the leading maker of HIV drugs, has announced its plans to acquire a rival firm, Pharmasset, for $11 billion.
December 01, 2011
The Justice Department’s antitrust division saw a noteworthy 20 percent plunge on job satisfaction in the annual rankings by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service.
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