Act against data-driven bias, advocacy groups tell FTC
A coalition of advocacy groups and lawmakers urged the Federal Trade Commission to hold companies accountable as online harms against people of color and women proliferate.
What’s up with that West Virginia v. EPA opinion?
What was going on in the Supreme Court’s opinion in West Virginia v. EPA? Everyone has a sense the new “major questions doctrine” will create problems for the antitrust agencies. But what kinds of problems exactly?
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Senator Klobuchar takes reins at antitrust subcommittee
As we first reported last October (FTC:WATCH Issue No. 814, October 1, 2012), the antitrust landscape in the United States changed this week with the announcement that U. S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar...
Breaking News: Jon Leibowitz steps down from FTC
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz has announced he is leaving the agency on February 15, after eight years spent at the commission. More coverage of his accomplishments, reasons for departure and likely...
Pay-for-delay patent settlements on the rise, prompting fierce debate
Patent dispute settlements between brand-name and generic drug manufacturers that delay the time lower-cost medications reach the market are sharply rising, according to a recent Federal Trade...
FTC:WATCH UBS Special Report, part VIII: Fruits of their labors
Many financial institutions were on the take, stealing money from U.S. taxpayers, according to an FTC:WATCH analysis of testimony in the month-long trial of three key municipal desk employees at...
Fallout over Frontline
There’s been a lot of chatter in Washington about the recent departure of Lanny Breuer, the top Justice Department official overseeing the criminal division, who had been widely expected to embark...
FTC finds deceptive advertising for pomegranate products
Pom Wonderful LLC, which has made hundreds of millions of dollars in sales since 2002 by using creative pitches to promote the efficacy of its pomegranate-based products in combatting certain...