Although the Federal Trade Commission won its effort to quash a lawsuit over its probe of LabMD, the now-defunct medical laboratory is still trying to sue three agency employees.
Unexpected, surreptitious fees in retail transactions — additions like “convenience fees” and “resort fees” — have proliferated wildly over the past 30 years. When they aren’t clearly disclosed at the start of a transaction, their omission can deceive consumers and distort the purchase decision....
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Phil Angelides, the former chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission that Congress and the President created to investigate the causes of the devastating financial crisis, has a bold...
Things were looking sketchy for the FTC headquarters building a few weeks ago.
Dozens of consumer protection and corporate antitrust attorneys converged on Washington late last month at the meat market of all meat markets—the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict...
As a generation of Robert Bork disciples grows gray of hair and prepares to retire, is a new concept, known in shorthand as “consumer choice” emerging as a viable alternative criterion for...
The Federal Trade Commission’s recent workshop on updating its guidance on advertising and privacy disclosures for consumers on mobile devices drew a packed house of about 200 participants. The...
In an auditorium crammed with legal luminaries, former Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky recently was honored by some of the nation’s most prominent antitrust lawyers, who...