August 02, 2012
Editor’s note: FTC:WATCH goes on vacation for the month of August, when most governments in the Western Hemisphere leave the city to seek refuge from the heat. We will return, refreshed, to produce our next issue, on September 16, 2012. Our advice: Stay cool till then.
August 02, 2012
August 3—FTC Commissioner Julie Brill will participate in the American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting to discuss “Privacy Law in 2012: Where We Are and Where We Are Going,” from 8:30 a.m. to 10...
August 02, 2012
CLEVELAND--Normally, when the seven judges serving on the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation gather at one of their six-times-a-year sessions, they confront a docket jam-packed with...
August 02, 2012
Ted Cruz, former head of the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning, may be coming back to Washington in a return engagement, but in a markedly different role.
August 02, 2012
Federal regulators and consumer advocates are trying to get ahead of the mobile payments gold rush by implementing new rules they hope will prevent an explosion of hidden charges being imposed on...
August 02, 2012
Bill Baer finally got a hearing.
August 02, 2012
CLEVELAND--Antitrust prosecutors normally have a spring in their step around the time they announce an indictment of a key figure in a case where real and lasting damage has been done to taxpayers.
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