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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March 29, 2013—FTC Chairman Edith Ramirez will give the opening remarks at the IP Enforcement and Antitrust Defenses Conference in Washington, D.C.
Blast from the past: Sen. Klobuchar takes on railroad industry
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.
Sen. Klobuchar zeroes in on airline mergers in her first hearing
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...
Is American Airlines and US Airways a done deal? Lawmakers act like supplicants at hearing
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...
FTC and Idaho AG challenging medical merger
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...
Brill urges caution on domain name expansion
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...