Speed-dating for judges comes to Washington
June 21, 2012
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...
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FTC building seems safe, for now
June 21, 2012
Things were looking sketchy for the FTC headquarters building a few weeks ago.
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Angelides urges breaking up the big banks
June 21, 2012
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...
Consumer choice on the menu in Europe
June 21, 2012
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...
FTC ponders disclosures in a digital world
June 21, 2012
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...
Tributes to former FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky
June 21, 2012
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...
GUEST COMMENTARY: Patents and Payoffs
June 21, 2012
A federal appeals court recently dismissed a case that could have saved consumers hundreds of millions of dollars. Solvay Pharmaceutical, the maker of a synthetic form of testosterone called...
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