FTC to review “Internet of Things”
July 30, 2013
We’re rapidly heading into the next phase in the development of the Internet featuring stunning breakthroughs that enable more and more everyday devices to communicate with each other and with...
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San Jose takes aim at baseball’s antitrust exemption
July 30, 2013
As we head into the dog days of summer and the baseball pennant races heat up, the City of San Jose has decided to throw a fastball of its own that takes dead aim at Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption. That exemption, conferred by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in his famous Supreme Court opinion in Federal Baseball Club v. National League, 259 U.S. 200 (1922), simply has no place in today’s game, the City alleged in a lawsuit.
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Commissioner Ohlhausen jumps in on Section 5
July 30, 2013
In a major speech, FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen joined fellow Republican Joshua Wright in calling for the agency to issue a policy statement clarifying the scope of its antitrust authority...
Day of reckoning ahead for pay-for-delay deals?
July 30, 2013
A political consensus seems to be emerging in the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee that negotiated settlements between the makers of brand-name drugs and generics to delay entry into the market are...
Senators, CFPB, FTC signal tougher action ahead on debt collection
July 30, 2013
The debt collection industry – which has already been in the crosshairs of regulators and legislators – will face additional rules based on comments of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and officials of...
Neil Averitt commentary: Hot cars, summer days and monopoly boards
July 30, 2013
Now the glorious days of summer have come, and sensible antitrust lawyers are heading for the beaches and the mountains, and taking the moment to ponder the deeper questions of life. Like, “Is that...
FTC:WATCH goes out on summer hiatus
July 30, 2013
Editor’s note: With this Issue, FTC:WATCH goes on its customary August hiatus when we, like most governments in the Western Hemisphere, leave the city to seek refuge from the heat. We will return,...
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- San Jose takes aim at baseball’s antitrust exemption
- Commissioner Ohlhausen jumps in on Section 5
- FTC to review “Internet of Things”
- Day of reckoning ahead for pay-for-delay deals?
- Senators, CFPB, FTC signal tougher action ahead on debt collection
- Neil Averitt commentary: Hot cars, summer days and monopoly boards
- FTC:WATCH goes out on summer hiatus
- Three former UBS execs heading to jail
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