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 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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March 29, 2013—FTC Chairman Edith Ramirez will give the opening remarks at the IP Enforcement and Antitrust Defenses Conference in Washington, D.C.
Right off the bat, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), the new chairwoman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, is taking on the nemesis of the original trustbusters: The railroad industry.
In her first hearing as chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, Sen. Amy Klobuchar signaled her concern about growing consolidation of the...
Many lawmakers had one overriding concern at recent House and Senate hearings on the proposed merger between American Airlines and US Airways: how much service would the new, mammoth carrier—that...
Continuing its recent efforts to quash mergers that it says decrease healthcare competition and drive up costs, the Federal Trade Commission joined the Idaho attorney general in filing suit to undo...
In a recent speech in Washington, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill warned that the upcoming expansion of domain names could increase the incidents of deceptive and fraudulent practices, hurting both...