The Federal Trade Commission’s rulemaking on non-compete agreements faces legal obstacles but could reap political and public policy benefits even if it’s struck down in court.
It’s an unusual legal story that involves international chess tournaments, the Twombly standard for pleading collusion, Arthur Schopenhauer, and radio-controlled vibrating sex devices — all at the same time. But this is such a story.
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The long halls at the FTC building in Washington D.C. were eerily silent during the two-week government shutdown.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...