If Republican nominees Melissa Holyoak of Utah and Andrew Ferguson of Virginia are confirmed, as expected, to join the Federal Trade Commission this month, they could change the dynamics of an agency that’s been under single-party control for half...
Hard cases are notorious for making bad law. But sometimes the easy and obvious cases can make bad law, too. Something like this seems to be going on with insulin pricing.
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Oil merger gets sticky
WILLIAMSBURG--The ABA’s “masters course” in historic Williamsburg once again gave a group of rising stars in the antitrust and consumer protection worlds the chance to meet and mingle with top...
There was a sometimes-fierce clash of views at the FTC on October 2—including veterinarians, consumer activists, business representatives, lobbyists and academics—at a workshop that examined...
Broadway seldom sees a less likely double bill. Appearing at the Liberty Theater one night only as part of Advertising Week 2012, “Mission Impossible: Truth & Privacy” featured a first act with FTC...
In a keynote address October 1 to the annual conference of the Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division, the ad industry’s self-regulatory arm, Commissioner Julie Brill highlighted a...
The weighty title of a three-day conference on advertising regulation underscored a key difference between ad copy writers who win awards for brevity and pizzazz and the lawyers who advise them:...