February 17, 2014
It was striking when, at a hearing earlier this month, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) was almost reduced to pleading with various industry representatives to work together in devising a solution to the recent massive data breaches that harmed millions of consumers. Stop the finger-pointing, he begged.
February 17, 2014
The FTC’s recent decision upholding just one of seven counts against McWane Inc., for unlawfully maintaining its monopoly in the domestic iron pipe fittings market, is as significant for what it...
February 17, 2014
A snowstorm shut down Washington on February 13, but the weather was not enough to stop the George Mason University School of Law from proceeding with its symposium on the Federal Trade...
February 17, 2014
FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez kicked off a recent agency workshop by talking about the life-saving properties of biologic medicines in providing therapies for difficult to treat diseases, ranging...
February 17, 2014
Editor’s note: In late January, Judge B. Lynn Winmill ordered St. Luke’s Health System, based in Boise, Idaho, to divest its ownership of a private physician practice, Saltzer Medical Group,...
February 17, 2014
After an antitrust investigation that lasted more than three years, European Commission regulators struck a tentative settlement with Google. In reaching this deal on February 5 – it is still...
February 17, 2014
Judge Lynn B. Winmill’s decision in the St. Luke’s case was not just an opinion on a local hospital acquisition. It is also a window into what could be the next great crisis to threaten the economy.
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