October 17, 2013
The long halls at the FTC building in Washington D.C. were eerily silent during the two-week government shutdown.
October 17, 2013
The government may have been shut down, but Senator Edward J. Markey, (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, fired off a letter to FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez...
October 17, 2013
From the moment the trial began in the Justice Department’s challenge to Bazaarvoice Inc.’s $168.2 million acquisition of PowerReviews Inc., government lawyers have argued that there’s nothing...
October 17, 2013
An antitrust trial underway in a Boise courtroom, despite the government shutdown, could help determine whether the hospital merger trend accelerates in the wake of the passage of the Affordable...
October 17, 2013
Every politician, to be successful, must be a bit guileful without appearing unmoored from principle. But Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has done such an about-face in ending his challenge to...
October 17, 2013
The FTC’s decision to punt after its landmark Supreme Court court victory in a hospital acquisition case drew much disappointed and angry comment from Georgia in the 30-day comment period following...
October 17, 2013
Paralleling the doctrinal conflicts over Section 5, a disagreement is brewing among the Commissioners on the proper role of consumer choice. This involves the question of how far the Sherman and...
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